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On behalf of our Public Sector client, Wirehead has a new contract opportunity for a Senior Project Manager.
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Client: Government
Type: Contract
Role: Senior Project Manager / Leader
Term: 480 working days + extension
Pay Rate: Open
Start date: Negotiable
Location: Hybrid 1-2 days in office P/W
Req ID: 6177
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Requirements: What you’ll need
Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications
Deliverables:
Looking for a Technical, High Functioning Project Manager that has been in this space before, and that has delivered on Multimillion/year projects. Using a cloud-based approach.
Project Management Skills
• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk project 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.
• Significant experience in coordinating team members; clarifying roles and responsibilities and ensuring knowledge is shared amongst team members
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Experience in proactively communicating project issues and risks for high-risk, high-profile and complex projects
• Demonstrated experience directing project QA teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
General Skills
• 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.
Soft Skills
• Superior verbal and written communication skills to effectively inform executive decision-making and to report status to corporate governance bodies including group facilitation skills, experience in preparing reports, proposals, briefing materials, presentations and other communications
• Strong consulting skills to engage with stakeholders
• Ability to prioritize workload, demonstrate critical thinking, identify problems, develop and implement solutions
• Strong customer service orientation to ensure needs of Clients are effectively met
• Demonstrated team player with excellent multi-tasking abilities and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines
OPS & Healthcare Experience
• Demonstrated experience in a health or clinical context
• Demonstrated experience supporting stakeholder engagement activities, particularly in a healthcare context
• Demonstrated experience with the privacy and security requirements of software development in a healthcare or clinical context.
Must Have:
• Leadership Skills & Communication Skills – Provide direction and swift decisions to a motivated team of IT professionals including Developers, System Testers, Architects and Solution Designers
• Experience with Cloud Based Technologies (Kubernetes, Angular, Docker Containers)
• Familiarity with DevOps
• Understanding of CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery/continuous deployment.)
• Experience with delivering a project that leverages FHIR
• Experience with Coordinating TRA (Threat Risk Assessment) and PIA (Privacy Impact Assessment) activities
Nice to Have:
• Experience Coordinate DFA (Digital First Assessment) activities throughout the project Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
• HealthCare experience
HOW TO APPLY
Please apply for this opportunity by using the Apply button or sending your resume directly to patrick@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.
Wirehead is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC). Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please let our recruiter know.
***This opportunity is in Toronto; preference will be given to local candidates. Wirehead does not offer a relocation package. We encourage you continue to refer to our Job listing page as new opportunities become available and updated on a regular basis. Thank you again for your interest in Wirehead!
