Job DescriptionThe Project Manager will provide project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for the Agency. The Project Manager will keep timelines moving, follow up on issues and dependencies, bring the right people together when needed, and help make sure work is progressing as expected.
Must haves:
- Strongstakeholder management, planning and resource management skills
- Provenability to manage competing priorities, organize inputs from multiplestakeholders, and maintain high-quality documentation.
- Detail-orientedwith excellent organizational and time management skills, and the abilityto prioritize and handle multiple tasks and competing deadlines.
- Collaboration,coordinating tasks, and ensuring that everybody works togethereffectively, this also involves conflict resolution
- Demonstratedexperience leading and overseeing program strategy development frominception through to project close-out
- Demonstratedability to develop successful relationship and build agreement withhigh-level internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstratedexperience understanding and articulating executive expectations andtranslating into program deliverables
Responsibilities:
- ProjectManager responsibilities:
- Workwith different partners and subject matter experts from differentorganizational units (clinical, business, enterprise, and technical).
- Gainunderstanding of stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
- Developand implement change management strategies and associatedcommunications.
- Developcharters to guide the work.
- Preparesummaries for leadership, including status, risks, cadence, upcomingtouchpoints.
- Developprofessional, consistent communication artifacts, including:
- projectupdates,
- changenotices,
- engagementsummaries,
- meetingminutes & action logs.
- Supportpreparation of materials for governance, leadership updates, workshops,and consultations.
- Establishand maintain excellent working relationships and effective communicationwith the sponsor(s), internal and external partners, and project teammembers.
- Organizeand lead project meetings.
- Ensureeffective project change control.
- Trackaction items and ensure timely follow-up.
- Proactivelyidentify and manage risks, and systematically resolve or escalate knownissues in order that a clear output can be identified and achieved.
RequirementsDesired Skills:
- Experiencewith managing projects in Ontario's healthcare sector.
- Excellentanalytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and writtencommunication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Knowledgeand understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policiesand practices
- Knowledgeand understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act(AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Ateam player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
Required Skills:
- Strongworking knowledge of the Project Management Institute's framework
- Proficientin MS Office
- Experienceworking alongside project and program managers in a highly complexenvironment with internal and external stakeholders, vendors and partners;while providing updates, escalating where required, identifying risks, andmanaging project document deliverables.
- Experiencecollaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintain progressreporting, action items, risk management updates, etc.
- Experiencedeveloping project status reports and maintaining and monitoring statusreporting logs.
Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria:
- ProjectManagement skills 30 Points
- Strongworking knowledge of the Project ManagementInstitute'sframework
- Abilityto build strong relationships with internal clients and externalpartners, clients, and vendors
- Acumento resolve conflicts at all levels with tact
- Well-developedanalytical skills with a keen eye for details
- CommunicationSkills 30 Points
- Strongwritten and oral communications skills
- Reportingskills
- WorkExperience 30 Points
- Demonstratedexperience with managing projects for initiatives with multiple partnersand stakeholders
- SectorExperience 10 Points
- Experienceworking in the health sector or public sector organizations
Total Evaluation Criteria: 100 Points
Deliverables Include (Deliverables resource is responsible for):
- ProjectManager deliverables: project plans, timeline tracking, issue logs, statusupdates, coordination records, and documentation.
Must Haves:
- Strongstakeholder management, planning and resource managementskills
- Provenability to manage competing priorities, organize inputs from multiplestakeholders, and maintain high-quality documentation.
- Detail-orientedwith excellent organizational and time management skills, and the abilityto prioritize and handle multiple tasks and competingdeadlines.
- Collaboration,coordinating tasks, and ensuring that everybody works togethereffectively, this also involves conflict resolution
- Demonstratedexperience leading and overseeing program strategy development frominception through to project close-out
- Demonstratedability to develop successful relationship and build agreement withhigh-level internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstratedexperience understanding and articulating executive expectations andtranslating into program deliverables
