I&IT Project Manager

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.

What can I expect to do in this role?

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.

How do I qualify?

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.

All external applicants (including former employees of the Ontario Public Service) applying to a competition in a ministry or Commission public body must disclose (either in the cover letter or resume) previous employment with the Ontario Public Service. Disclosure must include positions held, dates of employment and any active restrictions as applicable from being rehired by the Ontario Public Service. Active restrictions can include time and/or ministry-specific restrictions currently in force, and may preclude a former employee from being offered a position with the Ontario Public Service for a specific time period (e.g. one year), or from being offered a position with a specific ministry (either for a pre-determined time period or indefinitely). The circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment.

Remember: The deadline to apply is Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:59 pm EDT. Late applications will not be accepted.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for further screening or an interview will be contacted.