Project Manager

Responsibilities:

·       Leads solutions options through the cloud first team

·       Refines & documents the Business Problem

·       Assesses upgrade path from the Vendor

·       Solicits and documents the high level requirements to determine other solutions that are available for engagement in with the Cloud First Team

·        Developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs

·        Defining, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and setting deliverables/quality/performance expectations for project resources

·        Resolving resourcing conflicts and negotiating changes to resourcing needs

·        Collaborates with various internal or external service providers/partners to plan/align project dependencies and/or integrate solution components

·        Proactively planning and prioritizing tasks effectively to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands

·        Managing expectations in line with project critical success factors

·        Communicating and controlling the scope, time, and cost of the project to team members, clients and other stakeholders

·        Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported, and resolved in a timely manner

·        Provides project status update reports, biweekly, to support project reporting for senior executives

·        Identifies, analyses, prioritizes and communicates project risks for decision makers

·        Provides recommendations and mitigation strategies based on a detailed evaluation of risks and issues along with an understanding of the business implications

·        Ensures documents are maintained in a shared repository and that knowledge is shared among team members

·        Assists in the facilitation of team, vendor, and client meetings

·        Communicates effectively to identify needs and evaluate solutions to complex business and technical issues      

  Knowledge Transfer Requirements

• Knowledge transfer is expected to occur throughout the duration of the assignment through regular meetings, touchpoints, and working sessions with LRC staff
• All artefacts, including all relevant and complete documents, must be transferred to the ministry in the designated repositories provided
• Dedicated knowledge transfer sessions will be scheduled to ensure completeness of knowledge transfer and all documentation is shared, and allow LRC staff to ask clarification and/or follow up questions

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Agile Project Management Experience – 40%

• 10+ years demonstrated hands-on Project Management experience managing large complex application development projects
• 7+ years demonstrated experience managing agile/iterative/scrum projects
• Experience creating and managing project schedules, project plans, issue/risk logs, status reports and other project management artefacts
• Experience planning and managing OPS project gating, architecture and governance checkpoints/requirements

Leadership, Facilitation and Communication Skills – 50%

·        Demonstrated experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team

·        Excellent verbal and written skills

·        Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight and/or aggressive project timelines

·        Strong communication skills to present complex or technical details to business clients

·        Strong negotiation, consensus building and ability to manage/facilitate difficult conversations with team members, clients and/or executives

·       Experience with engaging business and IT stakeholders, understand requirements for new functionality or changes to existing ones and providing high level and detailed estimates

·       Expert knowledge/experience in writing detailed user stories

·       Demonstrated experience with facilitation and the ability to interpret business needs to technical requirements

·       Demonstrated ability in conducting feasibility analysis, project scoping and providing project work estimates

·       Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation

Technical Skills – 10%

·        Understanding of key phases and tasks of an IT project

·       Advanced Office365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Visio

·       Experience with iBase (an i2 product) databases an asset

Skills

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

·       Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager

·        Advanced knowledge of project management principles, methods and techniques

·       Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

·       Proven experience facilitation of client meetings/workshops, interpretation of business needs to technical requirements

·       Experience creating and documenting detailed user stories        

·        Experience managing privacy and security deliverables

·        Advanced knowledge and experience with Agile development concepts and methodologies

·        Experience leading technical teams

·        Strong technical and business aptitude

·        Persistent attention to detail

·        Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)

·        Self-motivated leader with strong interpersonal skills

·        Advanced skills in Office365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and Visio, and Planview

·       Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight deadlines

·       Previous government experience is an asset

·       Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation

·       Strong communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and negotiation skills to work seamlessly in an agile cross-functional team, with clients, vendor(s) and other stakeholders.

·       Excellent facilitation, presentation, time-management and problem-solving skills.

·       Able to build strong and trusting relationships, liaising effectively stakeholders

·       Knowledge and experience with supporting Public Sector Digital First strategies; experience with working with Digital Service standards including formal submissions for assessments as per official digital standards established

·       Able to resolve issues in a timely manner, provide options and recommendations.

·       Understand business metrics and able to translate business goals and objectives into digital experiences.

·       Knowledge to ensure compliance with requirements for accessibility and user centric design including Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and Simpler, Better, Faster Services Act

·       Strong research skills to perform industry research, provide options and make recommendations for solution improvements.

Must have 

• Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager 
• 7+ years experience in agile/iterative/scrum projects 
• Experience with engaging business and IT stakeholders, understand requirements for new functionality or changes to existing ones and providing high level and detailed estimates 
• Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, specification and validation 

Desired 

• Public Sector Experience  

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply for this opportunity by sending your resume directly to careers@wirehead.com

We thank all candidates for their interest but advise that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted directly. Rest assured that your resume will be kept on our database and will be considered for all future opportunities. 

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***This opportunity is located in Toronto; preference will be given to local candidates. Wirehead does not offer a relocation package. 

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