I&IT Project Manager

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If you are a successful project manager with team lead experience, consider this challenging opportunity within the Technology Management and Solutions Integration Branch, Health Services I&IT Cluster and be an integral member of a team providing overall team leadership, strategic advice and guidance to cross-functional, multi-disciplinary project team members, external consultants and contractors throughout all phases of projects.

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About the job

In this position you will:

• Plan and provide project management for a large-scale, multi-year, high-profile and high risk project or multiple, concurrent mid-sized, medium-term projects to meet critical client and business requirements.
• Provide overall team leadership, strategic advice and guidance to cross-functional, multi-disciplinary project team members through all phases of the project.
• Manage and direct the work of project staff. Plans and schedules assignments; monitors and reviews work for achievement of objectives, ensuring completion of work within assigned deadlines.
• Provide overall leadership and direction of business needs analyses and identification of client and business/technology requirements.
• Provide management of non-project related enhancement and operations.

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What you bring to the team

PROJECT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated knowledge of project management methodologies including planning and control techniques, tools, standards and best practices to provide project management for a long-term, large multi-year project, multiple concurrent mid-sized, medium-tier project and small-scale projects

NON-PROJECT RELATED ENHANCEMENTS AND OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated experience in providing additional functionalities to existing systems or make change or improvement to existing configurations/ functionalities
• Demonstrated experience with the management of service requests from the users of the systems that support business operation, troubleshooting and other work required to repair a production incident to restore services to normal operations
• Leadership skills to conduct in-depth test and analysis in collaboration with system vendor(s) for Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) products to determine the root cause of a break/fix in a system, and recommend courses of action for resolution
• Demonstrated experience in the management with the performance of regular, ongoing scheduled work such as backups, system/operational reporting, system upgrade, monitoring and patches, to ensure the reliability and/or stability of systems

LEADERSHIP SKILLS:

• Leadership skills to provide overall team leadership, related advice and guidance and the ability to plan, organize, and coordinate human, financial and material resources.

INTERPERSONAL, CONSULTATION AND STRATEGIC ADVISORY SKILLS:

• Interpersonal, consultation, and strategic advisory skills to provide strategic advice and guidance, persuade stakeholders to adopt a course of action, and make recommendations to project stakeholders and team members
• Consultation and mediation skills to build consensus, resolve differences and conflicts
• Negotiation skills to draft service agreements and resolve resourcing issues

RISK ASSESSMENT, ISSUES MANAGEMENT SKILLS AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:

• Knowledge of risk assessment and issues management skills to lead risk assessment/management for projects and to provide direction and advice to project teams.
• Experience in end to end change management process and use of change management tool (eSMT).

TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated experience in information management technologies, approaches and implementation methods
• Knowledge of emerging technologies, trends and developments

ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SKILLS:

• Oral communication skills to determine business/client requirements; to make presentations and to conduct briefings.
• Written communication strategies to manage the development of and edit project planning documents, reports, briefing notes, business cases and other documents.

FINANCIAL AND CONTROLLERSHIP MANAGEMENT:

• Ability to develop project budgets of large magnitude based on multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies.
• Ability to monitor and track deliverables against budget.
• Demonstrated ability to lead the procurement process and acquisition of required material resources for projects.

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Additional information:

Note:

• T-HL-111162/17

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Language requirements and assessment:
All external Ontario Public Service (OPS) job ads are posted in English and French. Check the "position(s) language" section at the top of each job ad for the language requirements. For all roles, candidates are assessed in English, the business language of the OPS. If the position is bilingual (English/French), you'll also need to pass a French-language proficiency test.

Exigences en matière de langue et évaluation:
Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario (FPO) sont affichées en français et en anglais. Consultez la section « Langue du ou des postes » en haut de chaque offre d'emploi pour connaître les exigences linguistiques. Pour tous les postes, les candidats sont évalués en anglais, la langue d'affaires de la FPO. Si le poste est bilingue (anglais/français), vous devrez également passer un test de compétences linguistiques en français.