Senior Project Manager/Leader

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Provides Operational and Project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for Government 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 Government project management methodologies and frameworks.
• Manage platform technology team(s) to ensure operational status for UAT and Prod infrastructure environments, technology evergreening initiatives (i.e Oracle, migration to Cloud).

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.
• bility to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
• Experience developing and managing team(s), 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.
• 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 Government 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.
• rticulates 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 Government 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.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in managing operational/infrastructure platform technology teams and projects.
• 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.
• bility 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.
• bility to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict.
• bility to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
• Experience and Skill Set Requirements.

Project Management Skills (40%):

• Expertise in applying project management theory, methodologies and techniques to provide overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of projects ensuring consistency with enterprise mandate, objectives and strategies.
• Knowledge of issues management, communication and change management principles to assist clients and stakeholders with change management activities.
• Experience developing and managing complex projects, estimating resources and preparing/presenting submissions for approval.
• Knowledge of IT systems, tools and databases to develop comprehensive implementation plans.
• Knowledge of and experience with GIS systems, Salesforce, Java and Cloud technologies and platforms.
• Vendor management expertise including knowledge of account management services.
• Proficient with incident management and related tools.

Leadership and Political Acuity (20%):

• Leadership skills to set direction and manage projects, activities and team members throughout the different project phases towards successful completion.
• Well developed organization and planning skills to manage a number of complex and concurrent issues while continuing to deliver results.
• Knowledge of project management and in-depth knowledge of task estimation, scheduling, budgeting, and control to prepare project plans and provide guidance.
• Political acuity to deal with sensitive situations, to work strategically with government stakeholders and develop appropriate responses to ensure projects reflect the overall enterprise objectives and priorities.

nalytical and Strategic Thinking Skills (20%):

• Strong analytical and conceptualization skills to deliver , combined with proven skills and experience in change management, project management and issues management.
• Research and problem solving skills to scan the organizational environment, analyze data, identify and assess emerging trends and develop options to strategically manage complex issues and files.
• bility to think holistically and horizontally about business problems and opportunities and ensure strategic alignment between cross-functional programs/activities.

Communications and Relationship Management Skills (20%):

• Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate project vision, facilitate discussions/negotiations, prepare written briefings, presentations and other project related materials.
• Negotiation skills to influence others and find collaborative solutions to complex high-profile issues.
• bility to build relationships to oversee cross-organizational consultation processes that involve internal and external stakeholders and consultation and collaboration skills to cultivate effective relationships, influence change and bring initiatives to successful conclusion.
• Emotionally intelligent communicator who can engage in tough conversations while remaining calm and unbiased.
• dvanced Office365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Vision.