Senior Project Manager/Leader

Advantages
- Hybrid work model – enjoy flexibility while being onsite for key meetings
- Competitive industry rate
- Start ASAP

Responsibilities
- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

Qualifications
Must Haves:

· 5+ years’ IT Project Manager experience, leading projects
· 5+ years’ experience writing project documentation
· 5+ years’ experience in process optimization

General Skills:

· Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.
· Process coordination and optimization.
· Client relationship management, with a particular focus on Gov’t/NGO/NPO, risk advisory, and consulting environments.
· Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
· Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
· Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
· Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
· Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
· Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
· Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures.
· Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
· Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
· Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
· Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
· Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects - concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.

Desirable Skills:

· Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
· Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
· Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
· Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
· Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
· Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
· Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
· Ability to manage multiple streams of work
· Operate in a fast-paced project with many of external dependencies
· Ability to pivot as required while prioritizing/triaging tasks and the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders

Summary
If you are interested in the Senior Project Manager/Leader role in Orillia, please apply online at www.randstad.ca. Qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps.

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