Experience leading large, complex, high-profile projects with various stakeholders
Proven ability to drive digital initiatives from ideation to completion
Strong skills in managing stakeholder consultations and building positive relationships
Political acuity to foster IT partnerships and understand business objectives
Responsibilities
Provide project management expertise for a large-scale Discovery initiative
Ensure project adherence to methodologies, digital standards, and governance frameworks
Manage project scope, budget, and schedule effectively
Lead stakeholder consultations and facilitate consensus building
Resolve complex issues across multiple project streams
Provide strategic direction and operational support to project teams
Conduct Digital First Assessment for the Discovery phase
Benefits
Comprehensive health insurance coverage
Opportunities for professional development and training
Flexible work arrangements
Supportive and collaborative work environment
Access to a network of diverse stakeholders and experts
Full Job Description
Job Description Responsibilities:
Provide project management leadership and expertise of large scale, highly complex, high profile, multi-jurisdictional and enterprise-wide Discovery initiative following Ontario Digital Standard.
Ensure the project is delivered cost effectively and efficiently, and in compliance with organization's methodologies, digital standards and governance frameworks.
Provide strong project management including scope, budget and schedule management. Manage project IRAD (Issues, Risk, Actions, Decisions). Manage project governance committees (steering, gating, checkpoints); project financials; resources; stakeholders; project reporting and escalation.
Lead stakeholder consultations, facilitation and consensus building. Build positive relationship with the the divisional stakeholders and subject matter experts, project team and external parties and provide strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change, while capitalizing on forces in support of change.
Manage interdependencies and resolving complex issues across multiple project streams.
Provide strategic direction and advice, and operational support to project teams and stakeholders. Provide analysis, strategic recommendations and advice to reporting Management on various options brought forward by vendor and IT partners.
Coordinate and complete Digital First Assessment (DFA) for the Discovery phase.
General Skills:
Demonstratedexperience leading and overseeing Discovery project from inception throughto project close-out, coordination of Digital First Assessment(DFA) and any required transition to operations, business planning,benefits identification and organization funding requests for I&ITprojects.
Experienceleading and facilitating user research, service design, journey maps,jurisdictional scan and conceptual solution and problem statementdevelopment.
Demonstratedexperience understanding and articulating business and IT executiveexpectations and translating into project deliverables.
Experiencemonitoring and managing the scope, budget, schedule, risk, resources,deliverables, governance, and technical performanceof complex high-profile multi-disciplinary projects withmultiple business and IT stakeholders.
Ensuresproject deliverables meet clients' business needs/requirements on time,scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies andcompliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
Experienceanalyzing project and organization's environments to identify potentialrisks and issues; articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to seniorexecutives; recommends mitigation strategies to decision-makers to ensureprojects are delivered on schedule.
Experienceproviding view of project inter-dependencies, internal and externalproject dependencies, monitoring and reporting on exposure levels.
Experiencedirecting stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building.Provides project reporting to multiple stakeholders.
Experienceleading strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change andcapitalize on forces in support of change.
Experiencebuilding positive relationships within the team, among multiplestakeholders and external parties such as vendors.
Adheresto OPS standards, guidelines and project management best practices.
Experiencedeveloping procurement artifacts including RFS, SOW/Contract, approvals,etc.
Experiencemanaging Discovery vendor deliverables, provide oversight and performeffective vendor management for the success of the project.
Planand lead project deliverables using Agile and OPS Digitalapproaches.
Experiencedirecting, managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams to ensureproject deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government andministry standards.
Extensiveexperience coordinating and monitoring project processes, interactions,progress, roadblocks, and developing/communicating guidelines andprocedures to stakeholders.
Formalproject management training/certification such as PMP, Scrum, Agile toapply best practices knowledge to unique and dynamic situations.
Desirable Skills:
Knowledgeand understanding of OPS enterprise architecture practices, specificallybusiness and information architecture.
Knowledgeand understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policiesand practices using both predictive and Agile methodologies.
Knowledgeand understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act(AODA) and related regulations and standards.
Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Must Haves:
10+years of senior project management experience
Experienceleading large, complex and high-profile multi-disciplinary projects withmultiple business and IT stakeholders with strong scope-budget-scheduleand IRAD management skills.
Provenexperience in leading digital initiatives from concept to launch leadingprogressive stages - Concept, Discovery, Design, Prototype, Implementationand Go-Live
Provenexperience leading stakeholder consultations, facilitation and consensusbuilding. Build positive relationship with the project team and externalparties and provide strategies and actions to overcome resistance tochange, while capitalizing on forces in support of change.
Politicalacuity to collaborate, share information, and lead/participate inrelationship-building forums with multi-disciplinary stakeholders. Abilityto develop and facilitate IT partnerships with business clients and ensureunderstanding of business directions, objectives, and priorities.
Experiencemanaging vendor teams through planning, milestones, guidance, policies,procedures and project deliverables.
Abilityto influence vendor teams for on-scope, on-time, on-budget, quality andtimely completion of vendor deliverables integrated with clientdeliverables.
Nice to have:
OPSexperience
Skill Set Requirements:
Project Management Experience:
Experienceleading large, complex and high-profile multi-disciplinary projects withmultiple business and IT stakeholders with strong scope-budget-scheduleand IRAD management skills.
Provenexperience in leading digital initiatives from concept to launch leadingprogressive stages - Concept, Discovery, Design, Prototype, Implementationand Go-Live.
Demonstratedexperience leading and overseeing Discovery projectfrom inception through to project close-out.
Experienceworking with project governance committees (steering, gating,checkpoints); project financials; resources; stakeholders; projectreporting and escalation.
Provenexperience leading stakeholder consultations, facilitation and consensusbuilding. Build positive relationship with the project team and externalparties and provide strategies and actions to overcome resistance tochange, while capitalizing on forces in support of change.
Provenexperience of working with Senior Leadership, building Executiveaudience level products and presenting the products inline with leadership expectations.
Provenexperience leading large-scale transformationprojects through Change process byimplementing strategies and actions to overcome resistance tochange.
Formalproject management training/certification such as PMP, Scrum, Agile toapply best practices knowledge to unique and dynamic situations
Leadership and Communication Skills and Experience:
Politicalacuity to collaborate, share information, and lead/participate inrelationship-building forums with multi-disciplinary stakeholders. Abilityto develop and facilitate IT partnerships with business clients and ensureunderstanding of business directions, objectives, and priorities.
Provenexperience in producing exceptional presentations, dashboards, briefingpapers and submissions, business cases and status reports to differenttypes of audiences including senior executives.
Abilityto foster strong senior leadership and executive relationships throughbroad business and IT governance tables.
Experiencein business transformation and change management expertise related toimplementing new solutions and business processes with broad implications.Practical experience supporting strategic IT investment planningdecisions, including supporting business case development for new systemimplementations/enhancements.
Stakeholders Engagement and Relationship Building Skills:
Strongfacilitation, negotiation skills and diplomacy to lead consultations,resolve issues, defuse tensions and obtain buy-in from wide anddiversified working groups and internal and external stakeholders.
Abilityto manage business stakeholders' expectations and understand businessprocesses and requirements to ensure project scope, business needs andrequirements are clear, and agreed on, by all key stakeholders.
Experienceworking collaboratively with various stakeholders including vendors,influencing outcomes, and obtaining buy-in from senior level management,key stakeholders, and client management.
Procurement and Vendor Management Experience:
Procurementknowledge and skills to develop RFS/RFP following organization policiesfor the acquisition of services vendor, business solutions and projectstaff.
Experiencemanaging vendor teams through planning, milestones, guidance, policies,procedures and project deliverables.
Abilityto influence vendor teams for on-scope, on-time, on-budget, quality andtimely completion of vendor deliverables integrated with clientdeliverables.
Public Sector Experience:
Experienceleading large and complex multi-disciplinary Discovery and IT/businessprojects for a municipal, provincial or federal government.
Experienceleading Digital First Assessment, Cyber Security, Privacy and Architectureand Project Gating for public sector projects.
