RQ11295 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

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.
  

General Skills:

• 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
  
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
  
• 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.
  
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
  
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
  
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
  
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
  
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Awareness / knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions
  
• Ability to adapt to changing trends, leverage emerging tools and methodologies, and effectively lead projects to success in today’s dynamic IT landscape
  

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
  

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects 
  
• Ability to prioritize workload, demonstrate critical thinking, identify problems, develop and implement solutions
  
• Experience managing a project following an Iterative project delivery methodology
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Project Management Skills:

• Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large, complex, multi-stakeholder projects
  
• Demonstrated experience in developing executive-level briefings, presentations and status reporting
  
• Significant experience in coordinating a large team and ensuring knowledge is shared amongst team members
  
• Extensive complex project management and delivery experience with both IT and business aspects/attributes
  
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
  
• Ability to prioritize workload, demonstrate critical thinking, identify problems, develop and implement solutions
  
• Demonstrated project issue and risk management experience for high-risk, high-profile and complex projects
  
• Demonstrated experience directing project development teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
  

Technical Skills:

• Experience managing a project following an Iterative project delivery methodology
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management policies and practices
  
• Experience in identifying barriers and required success factors for effective integration or collaboration
  
• Knowledge of standards for health care data exchange, in particular Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and SmileCDR
  
• Knowledge of and experience integrating solutions with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Hospital Information Systems (HIS)
  
• Experience working with containers and container orchestration tools such as RedHat Openshift or Kubernetes
  
• Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs
  
• Experience with the following languages/frameworks: Java frameworks such as Spring Boot and Quarkus, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, HAPI FHIR, Node.js, YAML, ELK Stack
  

Communication Skills:

• Superior verbal and written communication skills to effectively inform executive decision-making and to report status to corporate governance bodies including group facilitation skills, experience in preparing reports, proposals, briefing materials, presentations, and other communications
  
• Strong consulting skills to engage with stakeholders
  
• Strong customer service orientation to ensure needs of clients are effectively met
  
• Demonstrated team player with excellent multi-tasking abilities and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines
  

Healthcare Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in a healthcare or clinical context
  
• Demonstrated experience supporting stakeholder engagement activities, particularly in a healthcare context
  
• Demonstrated experience with the privacy and security requirements of software development in a healthcare or clinical context.