Job5801 : Program Manager Snr

**Full Job Description**

S&V Worldwide Inc. is a privately owned Canadian company with a long history in the consulting and contingent workforce management. Our company's global mission is to be relentless in the delivery of best services to help customer's business profitability and improve their operational efficiency. As a professional IT consulting team we partner with major financial institutions, investment firms and government ministries. We are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consulting services and recruiting all levels of IT positions for our clients. We are currently looking for individuals to fulfill a position of Snr Project Manager with one of our government clients

**Location**: This position is currently **WFH**. Once OH staff are required to return to the office, the resource under this request will be required to work onsite as well.

**Duration**: 17 months to start with possible extensions.

**Client**: Ministry of Health

**Description of Job**

**Must haves**:

- Minimum **8-10 years’ **project management experience working in **electronic health-related projects in Agile environment**.
- Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects
- Experience working with Business, Technical, Architecture, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders
- Knowledge of **Healthcare Information Systems** used throughout the province of Ontario
- Experience with health system business implementation and deployment projects
- Project Management Professional Certification (**PMP**)

**Deliverables include, but are not limited to**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Provides project management on large scale, complex projects for Ontario Health (OH) initiatives
- Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OH project management methodologies and frameworks

**General Skills**:

- Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests
- Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
- Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
- Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
- Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
- Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met
- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
- Proactively identifies 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
- Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
- Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects - concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out
- Promotes OH standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of resources

**Desirable Skills**:

- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
- Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as r