Project Manager

Client : Government

Type : Contract

Role : Project Manager

Term : 10 Months + extension option

Start date : 2-3 weeks

Location : Toronto / Hybrid

Req ID : RQ08108

Requirements : What you'll need

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, and Qualifications :

Project Management and Leadership

• Ability to perform in a large, complex organization, leading a cross-functional and diverse team of managers and professional staff to deliver results on time.
• Ability to develop, manage and implement a large-scale digital / I&IT project supporting both the technology implementation and business process transformation using multi-faceted strategies and tools that are comprehensive and effective in accomplishing project goals, milestones and outcomes.
• Ability to work and integrate with cross competency teams including (but not limited to) business, IT, infrastructure, vendors and 3rd party applications
• Demonstrated success leading a large-scale, complex digital and business transformation project, including working with executive and senior management to set objectives, secure consensus on approaches, execute delivery, and evaluate results.
• Ability to create and maintain an integrated project plan that aligns with modernization initiatives
• Ability to prepare and provide status reports, briefing notes, and visually appealing communication products for all levels of project governance, as well as stakeholder forums.
• Ability to exercise appropriate strategies related to change management, during all stages of projects concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Ability to manage the implementation activities and timelines associated with large, complex projects to coordinate I&IT, people and change management, and business process changes to support this large digital and business transformation.
• Knowledge of and ability to use project management software and methodologies in a dynamic environment.
• Demonstrate analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills

Risk and Issues Management

• Demonstrate experience in identifying potential organizational and project risks in advance and developing plans with the support of collaborative partner representatives to develop plans to remove or mitigate those risks.
• Ability to communicate risk and recommendations for mitigating strategies and ownership to be endorsed through project governance which includes multiple levels of executive leadership.

Communication and Stakeholder Management

• Demonstrate oral and written communication skills to conduct internal consultations, collaborate with senior management and various project leads, develop reports, proposals and associated communications regarding the project plan, risks and issues.
• Ability to lead and facilitate communications functions to connect a cross-functional and diverse range of partners, often with competing priorities, to deliver consistency in representation while driving consensus needed for delivery of project milestones on time.

Project Management Best Practices

• experience in Project Management delivery using agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies.
• experience of quality assurance, demonstrated by the identification of standards and criteria to be set in each phase of the project life cycle for both the product and the process.

Must haves :

• Certified Project Manager
• At least 8 years Project Management experience in delivering complex digital / I&IT projects using agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies

Nice to have :

Technical, functional knowledge of project management tracking tools (i.e. MS project).

PREFERRED SKILLS

Project Management + Agile + Risk + Issues Mgmt

HOW TO APPLY

Matt Dawson is recruiting for this position.

Email me to apply for this position : [email protected]

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