IT Project Manager

About the role

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Public Sector Experience

• 5+ years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers

• Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Architecture artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce technical documentation that comply with industry standard practices

• In-depth knowledge of industry standard such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Public Sector I&IT project management methodologies.

• Knowledge and experience with Public Sector /e-Health Ontario related projects

• Knowledge and understanding of Ministry policy and IT project approval processes and requirements

• Experience adopting and adhering to Public Sector Unified I&IT Project Methodology, Public Sector Enterprise Architecture and Public Sector Gating process, and Public Sector Standard Systems Development Methodologies

• Experience with large complex IT Health-related projects

• Demonstrated experience with GO-ITS Digital Health standards, and internal branch standards.

Technical Skills:

• 5-9 years of experience in the following:

• Demonstrated experience leading large I&IT Transformational projects with complex stakeholders and high visibility impact in public sector

• Demonstrated experience in working with clinicians and other health sector stakeholders to identify their business needs, and translate them into concise and complete requirements under tight deadlines

• Demonstrated experience with private and public-sector delivery partner capacity to deliver technology in a clinical setting

• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices

• Experience in Information security best practices, access control and authentication

• Experience with integrated & project change control process

• Experience with project management software such as MS Project, Planview, Jira, and Confluence

• Experience leading integrated projects, managing interdependent initiatives and high visibility transformational delivery of services

• Experience in managing projects using Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies for the analysis, design, development and implementation of applications in large complex environments

• Demonstrated strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences

• Proven experience in using Planview to accurately record and manage project financials

• Demonstrated ability to closely track project resource requests and allocations to ensure alignment with project needs.

Core Skills and Experience

5-9 years of experience in the following:

• Project management experience leading and planning complex, mission critical projects or initiatives involving business transformation, and design, development and implementation of IT Health-related solutions

• Highly skilled in working with product focused teams, proven practice in agile delivered initiatives

• Working with business analysts and system designers to define project scope, and design and translate the business requirements and functional specifications into an application design appropriate to meet the business and operational/IT needs

• Leading a team of business analysts, designers, developers and working with cross-functional teams

• Overseeing the development of agreed-to solutions and implementation of those solutions, including design, test, installation and monitoring of the new systems

• Identifying and resolving project conflicts related to resources, schedules, cost etc.

• Developing and/or supporting the development of training and communications material in support of large system implementation

• Working with the Business analysts, testing team and end-user teams to ensure proper testing methodolgy is utilized (from test strategy, plans, cases, testing to signoff)

• Providing project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at management levels

• Building positive relationships by developing an understanding of business and deliverable needs

• Developing mechanisms, frameworks, processes and procedures for implementing the deliverables as it relates to the project

• Working with teams to apply the best practices in definition and design of application software, hardware and network requirements

• Adoption readiness to meet the functional and non-functional requirements, adhering to GO-ITS and Digital Health standards and in some cases proposing amendments to those standards.

Must Have Skills:

• 5+ years of experience working with federal/provincial/broader public-sector healthcare providers

• Demonstrated experience leading large I&IT Transformational projects with complex stakeholders and high visibility impact in public sector

• Demonstrated experience in working with clinicians and other health sector stakeholders to identify their business needs, and translate them into concise and complete requirements under tight deadlines

• Gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule, timelines, resource and integrated plan

• Developing detailed project management documentation