Are you an experienced leader who has strong project management skills to drive organization and coordination with cross functional teams and stakeholders? Are you interested in leading program area staff in the planning, development, coordination, execution and implementation of projects? If so, join this role with the Ministry of Transportation, Operations Division, Highway Operations Management Branch where you will provide leadership related to ministry transportation activities.
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What can I expect to do in this role?
In this role, you will:
• Oversee daily activities of project teams, including planning, developing, coordinating and monitoring work
• Provide project management oversight for assigned projects and ensures all aspects of project lifecycle frameworks are compliant with project management methodology, standards, and best practices
• Lead high- complexity projects that cross program areas or are critical to the ministry
• Lead discussions with project stakeholders and steering committees
• Conduct detailed cost-benefit analysis in areas that could lead to significant financial commitments
• Develop risk management strategies that are aligned with the ministry's enterprise risk management framework
• Oversee and improve established project delivery performance
• Provide reports and briefings to senior management related to project delivery progress and/or project budget expenditures
• Provide advice on change management elements of the project to the teams to inform overall project plan
• Build and manage relationships with colleagues in other ministries, agencies, and stakeholders to develop approaches that integrate project management knowledge, expertise, and resources where needed
• Lead committees and working groups to share expertise and/or exchange information or resolve issues.
How do I qualify?
Leadership and Project Management Skills:
• You have strong leadership skills to coach and mentor project teams to achieve results, set direction and approach, resolve conflict and motivate performance
• You have knowledge of project management theory, methodologies and techniques
• You are able to provide overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of projects
• You are able to gain commitment for effective project delivery across the full project lifecycle to ensure cost management of projects, customer satisfaction and acceptance of projects by consistently applying project management disciplines
• You have excellent organizational and planning skills to manage a number of complex issues while continuing to deliver results
• You can design, schedule and monitor concurrent projects, which may involve multiple clients and diverse requests for services
Business Knowledge:
• You have knowledge of government decision-making processes and protocols to lead large complex projects that impact multiple program areas or ministry-wide
• You have knowledge of enterprise risk management principles and methodologies to proactively manage risks to minimize occurrence of issues
• You are able to make decisions/recommendations to mitigate risks and build and implement sustainable control plans and develop controls for monitoring
Stakeholder Management Skills:
• You can build and maintain effective working relationships
• You have excellent negotiation skills to drive realistic requirements, budgets, resources, and timelines, and deliver the projects on time and on budget
• You have effective consensus building, conflict resolution and negotiation skills to lead client and project meetings, manage multiple stakeholders and communication streams and identify requirements, develop strategies and obtain input into the development and implementation of projects
• You have strong influencing skills to provide briefings to senior management and oversee the work of other project managers/team members towards common outcomes and project execution
Communication and Interpersonal Skills:
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate vision of projects' future state impact to branch strategy
• You can facilitate discussions, negotiate solutions, make presentations and prepare briefings, presentations and other project-related materials
• You have effective strategic thinking skills to anticipate project stakeholder needs and identify and solve complex problems utilizing strong conflict management skills
• You can demonstrate political acuity to work strategically with both ministry senior management and program area managers to ensure that project planning and outcomes reflect the overall branch's objectives and priorities
Technical Knowledge:
• You have knowledge of government financial and procurement policies, systems and processes
• You are able to develop and manage complex project budgets, prepare and present submissions for multiple approval steps, estimate resources, and manage the processes for the acquisition of consultants/contractors and project staff
