RQ08108 - Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate

Job Description

Scope

To provide integrated project management leadership and expertise on a large scale, highly complex, high profile and high-risk initiative that is enterprise wide.

The role will be responsible for project management of workstreams, deliverables and milestones across multiple units.

• To ensure accountability for the project’s centralized group of units and their successful full life cycle delivery. To ensure the project is delivered on time, effectively and efficiently.
• Project management in the preparation and implementation of long-term business, functional and technical capability roadmaps for both product and process evolution as a result of modernization projects.
• Provide and maintain a comprehensive project plan that considers and includes dependencies on other projects and initiatives across the Ministry and OPS.

The project plan developed will be responsive to agile project delivery, while achieving day-to-day tracking of voluminous tasks, milestones, workstreams, complex risks and issues, while managing multiple intricate dependencies across a diverse, integrated project team whose resources are not directly reporting to a single entity.

• Deliver coordination and tracking of tasks, milestones, workstreams and complex risks and issues using modern and proven project management tools.
• The integrated project manager is required to work across all units to drive cohesion within the CDT project, including key stakeholders to maintain an overarching, integrated and robust project plan.
• Project Manager role to ensure tracking of activities and milestones specific to an IT vendor and their delivery of the digital justice solution.

Assignment Deliverables

• Preparation and maintenance of an integrated, detailed project plan to deliver a digital and business transformation for Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT).
• Preparation of weekly, bi-weekly, and ad-hoc project reporting to support the modernization and transformation initiative and presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Preparation and maintenance of a Project Plan that aligns to modernization and transformation initiative initiatives currently underway.
• Risk and issues management.

Requirements

Experience and Skillset Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

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

Desired Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of Project Management, best practices, tools and organizational structures to support two-way communication with a large group of project partners.
• Technical, functional knowledge of project management tracking tools (i.e. MS project).
• Ability to develop visually appealing products that can depict short, medium, and long term project milestones and timelines.
• Ability to proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.

Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.

• Able to comprehend business process and technology to lead and facilitate discussions and feedback to prepare a transformation roadmap;
• Deliver high level options analysis and recommendations to management on workplans to ensure compliance to timelines and project goals;
• Assist in the detailed evaluation and development of workplans to remove or mitigate project delays, specifically due to dependencies.

Nice to have :

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

Requirements

Experience and Skillset Requirements Mandatory Requirements Certified Project Manager At least 8 years Project Management experience in delivering complex digital / I&IT projects using agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies Desired Skills and Experience Knowledge of Project Management, best practices, tools and organizational structures to support two-way communication with a large group of project partners.

Technical, functional knowledge of project management tracking tools (i.e. MS project). Ability to develop visually appealing products that can depict short, medium, and long term project milestones and timelines.

Ability to proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.

Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.

• Able to comprehend business process and technology to lead and facilitate discussions and feedback to prepare a transformation roadmap;
• Deliver high level options analysis and recommendations to management on workplans to ensure compliance to timelines and project goals;

Assist in the detailed evaluation and development of workplans to remove or mitigate project delays, specifically due to dependencies.

Nice to have : Technical, functional knowledge of project management tracking tools (i.e. MS project).