Project Manager

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Job Description

Our client has a requirement for Project Manager for a 6 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

• Preparing project statements, resource planning, status reporting, monitoring status of deliverables.
• Stakeholder management, gathering & documenting requirements, documenting project plan, strategy and implementation plan as per the standards
• Creating and maintaining project schedules (Work Breakdown Structures) using MS Project Professional
• Coordinating project meetings (e.g. steering committee, team meetings), including issuing of agendas, scribing minutes and following up on action items with the project team
• Generating and publishing project reporting (status reports with schedule information, milestones, dependencies, issues, risks, change requests, financials, metrics, etc)
• Identification, preparation and tracking of project change requests, reviewing the requests to ensure all impacts are identified and estimates are reasonable
• Preparing project presentations and communications
• Managing overall program/projects budget and expenditures
• Supporting program/projects orientation for new staff and consultants assigned to the project
• Transferring knowledge to designated clients staff
• Regular review of all actual expenses to budgets, which includes tracking and monitoring of monthly expense accruals, and perform reconciliation of expenditures against budget
• Create and maintain a summary report of expenditures
• Development of Project Management, Relationship Management, Quality Management, IT Change Management, Issues & Risk Management, Incident Management, Security Management, Service Continuity Management, Release Management plans, Communication plan and Project Charter
• Monitor project deliverables and documentation for quality and ensure standards are followed
• Provide a project schedule
• Ensure timely communication with various internal and external stakeholders
• All Project and Program Management Services
• Facilitate development and approval of Threat Risk Assessment (TRA) for new environments
• Facilitate and review procurement of hardware and software as required
• Configuration and setup of infrastructure
• Co-ordinate deployment of the Development/Test, UAT and Production environments
• Co-ordinate with the other Project Managers, Vendor Project Managers, Client Project Managers and ITS Project Manager
• Plan for Support and Monitoring of environments based on existing Managed Services standards
• IT governance tasks related to the program

Requirements and Qualifications  

• Experience in Program and Project Management and use of Project Management software (Enterprise Project Management)
• Managing multiple concurrent tasks in a multi-tiered application development environment
• Selecting and establishing business methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to develop successful relationships with high level customers including managing 3rd party vendors
• Establishment and/or management of information resource management functions in large or medium sized organizations
• Managing the governance, change management and implementation activities associated with large IT projects such as data conversion and database loading
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of support services
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; oral and written communication skills; inter-personal and negotiation skills
• A team player with a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines
• Knowledge of Technical Architecture & experience with OPS UPM gating and checkpoint processes
• Ability to process project information with high levels of accuracy
• Knowledge of and experience with tools and techniques for planning, organizing, monitoring and controlling IT project schedules, plans, progress, delivery and costs
• Knowledge of and experience with monitoring and reporting on project progress and delivery using, MS Project. MS Enterprise Project Management (EPM), Share-Point and Visual Process are assets
• Knowledge of and experience with maintaining a central repository of project schedules, plans, reporting and deliverables
• Ability to produce a variety of business documents (in MS Office) that demonstrate command of language, clarity of thought and orderliness of presentation (including MS Word, Excel, Power Point and Visio)

Keywords:   Public Sector, PMP, EPM,       

How to Apply

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