RQ11271 Project ManagerLeader Senior

• This resource will coordinate cross-ministry governance strategic planning risk and issue management stakeholder alignment and executive reporting in the discovery phase of this modernization initiative.
  
• The resource needs to act as the primary liaison between business partners IT teams and senior leadership ensuring collaboration across all workstreams with the goal of securing a successful launch of a major enterprise I&IT project across EDU and MCURES portfolios
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Core Skills 45%

• Demonstration of strong project management experience with over 5 years of experience.
  
• Specific business/application knowledge related to applications used to calculate annual funding allocations.
  
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget to the highest quality meeting or exceeding expectations.
  
• Change-management principles and methodology expertise.
  
• Manage project schedules milestones risks issues and key deliverables
  
• Supporting TB/MBC and SPP submission activities.
  
• Coordinate procurement activities
  
• Prepare polished executive-ready presentation materials.
  
• Oversee deliverables project governance submission and tracking (through Planview) and the I&IT UPM gateway process.
  
• Prepare executive briefings and future RFB planning
  

Other Project Management Skills - 45%

• Provide senior project management leadership throughout the project lifecycle leveraging a minimum of five years of project management experience to ensure successful project delivery.
  
• Lead the development coordination and tracking of TB/MBC and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables ensuring timelines and quality expectations are met.
  
• Plan and coordinate Executive Steering Committee Director and Working Group meetings support the co-chairs ensuring effective governance create agenda and meeting notes and track action items.
  
• Coordinate cross-ministry governance activities and maintain alignment among business partners I&IT teams and executive stakeholders.
  
• Provide regular project status reporting to senior leadership including progress updates key decisions risks issues financial status and recommendations.
  
• Foster collaboration across ministries and stakeholder groups to ensure project objectives governance requirements and business outcomes remain aligned throughout the discovery and implementation phases.
  
• Lead change management planning and implementation activities to support stakeholder readiness adoption and successful organizational transition.
  
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans schedules milestones dependencies and critical path activities to ensure project objectives are delivered on time within budget and to the expected quality standards.
  
• Support the onboarding of the project into Planview ensuring alignment with OPS enterprise-wide Project Portfolio Management (PPM) best practices for project governance administration tracking and reporting.
  
• Provide ongoing support for the application of the I&IT Project Methodology across all project phases including Feasibility Project Approval Definition Planning Implementation and Close-Out. Ensure that the required governance system development and project management artefacts are completed and maintained for each phase to demonstrate compliance with organizational standards and project delivery requirements.
  
• Coordinate the alignment of system development activities with project management phases including:
  
• Executing requirements analysis and design activities in support of the Definition and Planning phases.
  
• Aligning coding testing and deployment activities with the Implementation phase where the solution is developed and delivered.
  
• Supporting post-implementation review activities during the Close-Out phase to capture lessons learned and validate the successful design development and deployment of the solution.
  

Public Sector - 10%

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size and complexity to Ontario Public Service.
  
• Demonstrates experience designing and developing applications that comply with GO-ITS standards would be an asset
  
• Strong understanding of challenges and issues that ministry may have with respect to data
  

Must Have:

• Demonstration of strong project management experience with over 5 years of experience.
  
• Specific business/application knowledge related to applications used to calculate annual funding allocations.
  
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget to the highest quality meeting or exceeding expectations.
  
• Change-management principles and methodology expertise.
  
• Manage project schedules milestones risks issues and key deliverables
  
• Supporting TB/MBC and SPP submission activities.
  
• Coordinate procurement activities
  
• Prepare polished executive-ready presentation materials.
  
• Oversee deliverables project governance submission and tracking (through Planview) and the I&IT UPM gateway process.
  
• Prepare executive briefings and future RFB planning
  
• Provide senior project management leadership throughout the project lifecycle leveraging a minimum of five years of project management experience to ensure successful project delivery.
  
• Lead the development coordination and tracking of TB/MBC and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables ensuring timelines and quality expectations are met.
  
• Strong Communication skills - able to conduct meetings and discussions with various stakeholders.
  

Nice to have:

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size and complexity to Ontario Public Service.