Project Manager – Intermediate Contract

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Client: Ministry of Transportation
Location: Toronto (hybrid)
Role: Project Manager – Intermediate
Term: 144 Days + extensions
Rate: Open DOE
Start date: 2/3 weeks
Req ID: 5569
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Requirements: What you’ll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications
Deliverables:

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS 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 OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
• Responsible for coaching and implementing Agile methodology (Scrum) and project management phases for the development and implementation of the solution into Production.

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.
• Ability 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
• Ability 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 OPS 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.
• Articulates 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 OPS 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:

• 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
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability 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
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
General skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Ability to gather and develop requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability 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
• Ability 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

Must Have:

Candidate must be available to join the team from July 24, 2023

• 5+ years of project management experience
• 5+ years of experience with Operations Management, Release Management and Change Management Processes
• Experience in Agile, SCRUM. Lean and DevOps methodologies
• Experience developing Agile Metrics and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Experience with DevOps, Microsoft tools including Visio and Project and Miro boards
• Experience and knowledge of the Ontario Digital Service Standard, Ontario Service Design Playbook and the Digital First Assessment product delivery approach (Pre-Discovery, Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live)
• Knowledge and understanding of digital product development, implementation and management

Evaluation Criteria:

Criteria 1: Project/ Product Management
Criteria Points: 40
• 5+ years of I&IT project management experience
• Experience delivering solutions using PowerBuilder and Informatica technologies
• Demonstrated experience providing senior technical expertise, project leadership and coordination of activities in the development, implementation and maintenance of large scale projects
• Demonstrated experience with identification of risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Ability to articulate and prioritize issues and risks at program management and senior executive level and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers
• Ability to create and maintain a product road map and product backlogs

Criteria 2: Relationship Management and Communication
Criteria Points: 30

• Demonstrated experience in communication and mediation skills with business teams and core team members to ensure Client products are progressing according to schedule or product road map
• Demonstrated experience in team building, consensus building and relationship management skills
• Demonstrated experience with strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of products – Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live or similar delivery methodologies
• Demonstrated experience in negotiating with business stakeholders on functional design issues and detailed solution design sessions, negotiating on issues for production

Criteria 3: Technical Skills
Criteria 3 Points: 25

• Ability to delivery on a product with a balanced team (product owner, user experience designers, developers) utilizing Agile (SCRUM) delivery methodologies. Scrum master experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience delivering solutions using Agile practices and tailoring approaches to maximize adoption of Agile principles while working within organizational constraints.
• Demonstrated experience leading Agile teams through continuous improvement processes including but not limited to Sprint Retrospectives, etc.
• Experience in providing strategic guidance and advice in meeting current business requirements while establishing a solution design that can be readily extended as additional functionality is onboarded in future project(s)
• Demonstrated knowledge of online collaboration tools such as MIRO, Atlassian Confluence and Trello, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams

Criteria 4: Public Sector Experience
Criteria 4 Points: 5

Must Have:

• Candidate must be available to join the team from July 24, 2023
• 5+ years of project management experience
• Experience in Agile, SCRUM. Lean and DevOps methodologies
• Experience developing Agile Metrics and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Experience with DevOps, Microsoft tools such as Visio and Project and Miro boards
• Experience and knowledge of the Ontario Digital Service Standard, Ontario Service Design Playbook and the Digital First Assessment product delivery approach (Pre-Discovery, Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live)
• Knowledge and understanding of digital product development, implementation and management

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