Senior Project Manager

About the role

Requirements: What you'll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications:

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Strategy and Leadership

• Ability to think and act strategically. Big picture thinking, and solid understanding of program scope, management, and operations.

• Good understanding of the wider objectives and how to ensure strategic alignment of the program to business priorities.

• Experience leading organizational development, strategy development, business, and program planning.

• In-depth knowledge and experience producing program and project management artifacts and deliverables required to support program strategic objectives.

• Ability to work positively with the wide range of individuals and stakeholders involved in program management.

• Strong leadership and management skills and experience

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills and experience

• Strong presentation and meeting facilitation expertise.

• Experience handling difficult situations and managing stakeholder alignment to ensure program success

• Ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems and pro-actively manage program issues and risks.

• Ability to use appropriate strategies and actions to proactively overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of program projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation, and close-out.

• In-depth knowledge of strategic program budgeting and resource allocation methods and techniques to ensure program success.

Criteria 2: Project Management

• 5+ years’ proven experience as a Program Manager or other Managerial position:

• Experience developing and managing program and project scope, schedules, and deliverables.

• Experience with monitoring and forecasting program and project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met.

• Experience with effective management of program budgets ensuring a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts, and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.

• In-depth knowledge and handling of project and program management methodology and techniques

• Ability to promote I&IT program and project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.

• Experience gathering and developing business and technical requirements to create and maintain a detailed program, project schedule and/or integrated plan.

• Experience directing program and project teams to ensure program and project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.

• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring program and project processes developing/ communicating guidelines and procedures.

• Experience with resolution of resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensuring knowledge is shared among team members, and program objectives and deliverables are met in a timely manner.

• Ability to proactively identify potential program risk events and issues before they occur including identification of appropriate mitigating strategies and plans.

• Experience with effective articulation and prioritization of issues and risks to senior executive levels and recommendations of mitigation strategies for decision makers.

• Experience with establishment and facilitation of program steering committee and stakeholder forums and meetings.

• Experience with providing, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.

• Experience with promoting Public Sector 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.

• BSc/BA Diploma in Management or a relevant field.

• PMP is an asset.

Criteria 3: Planning and Procurement

• Experience with the coordinated planning, management, and execution of organizational change initiatives.

• Outstanding knowledge of performance evaluation processes.

• Experience with procurements, managed services, and vendor management.

• Experience with APIs, solution integration and customer experience platforms.

• Experience with iterative and agile delivery.

• Experience with journey mapping.

• Experience with developing and advancing transformational roadmaps.

• Experience with managing and delivering end-to-end programs/projects with focus on solution integration, platform modernization.

• Experience developing and delivering presentations to a wide variety of audiences including executives.

Criteria 4: Government Environment Experience

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

• In-depth knowledge of Public Sector Program/Project Management artifacts (or similar), processes and practices, and ability to produce program level documentation that comply with industry standard practices.

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

• In-depth knowledge and experience with Public Sector Health related projects

• In-depth 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.

• Solid experience with large complex IT Health-related projects and programs

• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.

Must haves:

• Executive communication
• Strategic planning
• Program management