Senior Project Manager

Job Description:

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• bility 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.
• bility 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.
• Provides project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• rticulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client's business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined.
• pplies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost-effective service delivery approaches.
• Knowledge and experience with a wide range of methods, techniques, and tools for business architecture such as, but not limited to: business functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, business event modeling, business process mapping, value chain analysis, and other related disciplines.
• Successfully completed business architectures in government settings or similar complex, multi-project/multi-client organizations.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
• Experience in structured, object-oriented, and agile methodologies for user requirements.

Project Lead Experience - 35%:

• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
• Experience utilizing, managing, and understanding various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum and scalable minimum viable products.
• Experience with I&IT technology deployment.
• Experience leading, facilitating, and initiating large-scale technology infrastructure procurements.
• Experience in defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering the initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverables as needed.

Business Analysis Experience - 25%:

• Experience in structured, object-oriented, and agile methodologies for user requirements.

Business Architecture Experience - 10%:

• Knowledge of the Zachman Framework including business/information/application/technology/security architectures.

Communication - 20%:

• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective stakeholder management skills.
• Experience providing executive reports, presentations, and implementation plans.