Project Manager / Lead - L2

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Job Description

Our client has a requirement for a Project Manager/Lead –Level 2 for a 9 month contract opportunity.  The position is located in Toronto.

What makes this Special

Our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

Role

• Provide Management, Leadership and Consultations related to identifying and analyzing the program strategy, supporting policy, organization and business processes
• Provide Leadership, Facilitation and Consultation on the design of new business architectures, processes and rules;
• Provide advice, oversight and guidance to a team of business relationship managers, project leads and project managers in the development and management of all project related documentation and plans as well as facilitation of project tasks.
• Provide Consultation efforts with all affected internal and external stakeholders where necessary;
• Accountable to facilitate identification of risks and mitigation strategies, to ensure risks are assessed and have owner/ approach defined for planned mitigation strategies. Update Risk Log on a weekly basis. Ensure management awareness of high impact/priority issues; escalate as appropriate
• Ensure defined Change Management Process is followed for any change from agreed scope, schedule or quality. Issue Change Requests and seek management approvals
• Provide day-to-day leadership to the project team.
• Work collaboratively with Project Managers, leads and other team members and obtain agreements and commitment where required to successfully manage dependencies and expectations
• Provide weekly project status report that reflects progress on tasks, changes based on approved change orders, issues/risks that require management attention and planned activities for the next period.
• Provide metrics and input to Program Manager, as required.
• Develop Project Status presentations/ decks for various audiences, as required
• Escalate deviations from planned baseline schedules and scope to business and IT managers and PMO
• Ensure required project management standards are followed
• Complete Project Post-implementation reviews and project closeout report

Requirements or Qualifications

The candidate must be able to work in a multi-project, Multi-disciplinary enterprise environment seeking input and comment from other major initiatives.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• Senior experience working with clients, maintaining relationships, developing strategies and implementing change initiatives (both technical and non-technical)
• Experience in preparing reports and briefing materials for, and making presentations to, senior management
• Superior communication, presentation and interpersonal skills; superior negotiating, mediating, and influencing skills; superior leadership and consulting skills, with demonstrated ability to work independently and in a team/multi-stakeholder enterprise environment; strong ability to mentor and coach and develop others
• Experience in defining business requirements methodologies
• Experience managing team members undertaking both business functional and technology related tasks in a coordinated project environment
• Excellent written, presentation, communication and influencing skills
• Experience as a Project Manager  planning and managing large, complex, multi-year, multi-tier, multi-stakeholder projects
• Experience with procurement process and project management of different stages of RFP creation and evaluation process
• Experience with the management of Third Party deliverables and acceptance processes
• Experience in developing detailed project management documentation (e.g. project plan, project schedule, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)), monitoring project performance and initiating corrective action, where required
• Experience in structured methodologies for project management and the design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications
• Demonstrated experience in the development of system modernization strategies, plans, and schedules, and experience managing those plans.
• Experience in the development of Internet/Intranet business strategies
• Knowledge and experience with the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture
• Expert skill with MS Office software
• Experience leading teams of at least 10 people
• Leadership experience in one or more of the following areas:
• multi-tiered application development
• selecting and establishing technical architectures
• design and development of large or medium corporate database applications
• establishment and/or management of information resource management functions in large or medium organizations
• managing the implementation activities associated with large IT projects such as data conversion and database loading
• managing multiple concurrent tasks in a multi-tiered application environment
• Experience managing the expectations of a wide range of project stakeholders and target solution users, both from the business and IT side of an organization;
• Extensive experience in complex business and IT issues management, including analyzing, problem-solving and coordination and facilitation of issue resolution in a timely fashion;
• Proven ability to manage to successful completion an assignment of this nature, magnitude and complexity, and achieve the results on schedule and within budget;
• Experience and knowledge of project management tools, such as CA Clarity, MS EPM, and other associated tools such as MS Project, Open Workbench, SharePoint;
• Experience in developing, integrating and managing plans and schedules involving multiple teams and multiple 3^rd party suppliers
• Extensive experience in the ongoing identification, monitoring, and management of Project risks, and the establishment and management of contingency plans, where appropriate;
• A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple projects with competing priorities and strict deadlines;
• Knowledge of and experience with monitoring and reporting on project progress and delivery using MS Project (Workstation and Enterprise versions), SharePoint and other reporting tools.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with the Client business and systems architecture
• Demonstrable knowledge of applications, databases and systems
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in working in accordance with policies and procedures of Ontario Public Service

Keywords:   Project Management, Ontario Public Service, Zachman, MS Office   

How to Apply

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