Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Job ID: RQ10786 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Ensure 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
  

• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and ministry funding requests.
  

• Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
  

• Identify 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
  

• Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members so that project objectives and deliverables are met
  

• Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies
  

• Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
  

• Use ministry project management tools for recording and reporting project/program data
  

• Create/update Integrated Project Management Plan (IPP), adjust and update IPP as per change requests 
  

• Perform reviews of schedule, variance analysis, adjust leads and lags, and revise schedule
  

• Manage and monitor project progress, critical path activities, and report on slippage
  

• Create overall project status and project progress reports for project executives and stakeholders 
  

• Identify and manage issues, review issue status, and produce issue logs
  

• Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed 
  

• Review change requests, and prepare change requests report to be reviewed by Change Control Board, and adjust integrated project plan accordingly 
  

• Prepare business transformation and adoption plans 
  

• Create and provide knowledge transfer documentation as part of the knowledge transfer plan 
  

• Establish and participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums 
  

• Use 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 
  

• Promote 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.
  

• Adopt and adhere to OPS Unified I&IT Project Methodology, OPS/e-Health Ontario Gating process.
  

• Be a demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines. 
  

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Must Have Skills:

• 7+ years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (Scrum Master certified preferred); managing the backlog, sprint planning, velocity tracking, Agile testing, retrospects, etc.
  

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