Senior Project Manager, Primary Care

At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province.

Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value.

How we work together is reflected through our five values : integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.

What Ontario Health offers :

Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type :

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day
• Health care spending account
• Premium defined benefit pension plan
• 3 personal days and 2 float days annually
• Individual contributors start at 3 weeks’ vacation with 4 weeks at 2 yrs.
• Career development opportunities
• A collaborative values-based team culture
• Wellness programs
• A hybrid working model
• Participation in Communities of Inclusion

Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.

Here is what you will be doing :

The Population Health and Value Based Health Systems portfolio at Ontario Health is seeking a Senior Project Manager for the Primary Care Program.

This is an exciting opportunity to apply your project management skills and healthcare knowledge . The Primary Care Program provides strategic oversight and direction for primary care initiatives, stakeholder relationships, performance measurement, standards, and best practices, as well as championing greater equitable access for patients and caregivers across the health system.

Reporting to the Manager, Primary Care, the Senior Project Manager will work with various teams within Ontario Health, and with its collaborators, to ensure the timely, efficient, and quality delivery of primary care initiatives and projects.

Assignments include large-scale complex data, clinical, and IT-focused projects across multiple portfolios within Ontario Health.

Here is what you will need to be successful :

• Ability to take broad concepts and turn them into achievable plans and manage the plans from requirements through design and implementation.
• Ability to integrate and manage several related plans and to support the integration of planning and delivery across a large and diverse delivery program.
• Scope of accountability covers all aspects of delivery including :
• Developing plans and estimates
• Risk and scope management
• Quality management
• Change management and change requests
• Executing, controlling, reporting, and closing
• Ensuring appropriate and timely change control and compliance with change processes
• Developing integrated project plans, ensuring accurate and appropriate inclusion of deliverables, milestones, resources, inter-project dependencies and progress reporting
• Adhering to and promoting Ontario Health policies and standards, including privacy, security, and architecture
• Ensuring compliance by any contractors and / or vendors
• Ensuring project resource controls are managed throughout the lifespan of the project
• Proactively managing risks, and systematically resolving or escalating issues in a timely manner
• Pulling and analyzing project-related data as well as compiling it into required reporting templates to disseminate to stakeholders
• Maintaining trackers related to resourcing, including conducting resourcing forecasts
• Scheduling meetings with stakeholders and any vendors, as well as curating related documentation in SharePoint
• Ensuring project reporting is timely, accurate, and appropriate for the various stakeholders
• Negotiating project team resources
• Following Ontario Health methodologies

Education and Experience

Completion of a university (bachelor) program involving acquisition of an advanced understanding of complex concepts and procedures in an area of work related to assigned duties such as bachelor's or master's degree, major in business administration, health administration, health informatics, information technology, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

10 15 years’ experience in a role related to project planning and delivery, ideally in a healthcare setting experience with government level initiatives and projects an asset

Strong working knowledge of the full Project Management LifeCycle (PMLC), PMBOK based

Experience in managing delivery teams of various sizes and scope (may include staff, consultants, vendors)

Experience with and knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Project Server

Understanding of the primary care landscape in Ontario is an asset

Experience with data, clinical, and IT-focused projects is desirable

Knowledge and Skills

Expert project management skills gained through progressively more responsible assignments

Demonstrated experience managing across full solution development lifecycle

Track record of successful project delivery

Experience in managing delivery teams of various sizes and scope (may include staff, consultants, vendors)

Demonstrated experience with managing project resourcing

Experience with and knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, Microsoft Project, and MS Project Server

Experience with project methodologies and standards (PMLC, SDLC, ITIL) and tools, e.g., SharePoint

Experience with government level initiatives and projects an asset

Demonstrated ability to manage cross functional project teams in a matrix environment

Knowledge or experience of the health sector and / or government is an asset

Technical knowledge / expertise is a requirement

Employment Type : Temporary Fixed-Term (12 Months)

Paygrade : Band 7

Location : Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)

All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.

Internal Application Deadline Date : June 20, 2024

Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone;

Black and racialized; members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary; and disabled.

We encourage applicants with accessibility needs to notify us if they have any accommodation needs in the application and / or interview process.

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