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Our client is looking for a Senior Project Manager/Leader for a 11 month contract in Toronto. This is an onsite role. Rate: $609.86 - $644.49
Job Responsibility:
Provide project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives
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 funding requests
Gather and develop requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
Monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
Develop and manage project schedules, deliverables, and scope
Promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
Direct project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to standards
Coordinate and monitor project processes, and develop/communicate guidelines and procedures
Source, select 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
Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met
Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross dependencies
Identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed
Articulate and prioritize issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers
Establish and participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums
Provide, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
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
Requirements:
Extensive end to end project experience
Experience with multiple million / multi year projects
Extensive experience with stakeholder management / high complexity projects
Strong Communication skills - verbal / written
Strong leadership/passion to drive projects
Driven and delivery oriented
Strong Business PM exp - very strong stakeholder management
Experience in formulating and determining business and technical requirements, business problems, business objectives, product visions, goals and outcomes
Exp with status reports and working with senior leadership and non-technical audience
Agile Knowledge and framework / Waterfall
Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Teams and other tools that support project management, collaboration and development of processes and plans
Working knowledge of DevOps (Azure)
Prior experience with cloud related project implementations
Nice to have:
Prior OPS / Public Sector experience would be an asset