Project Manager

Arthur Grand Technologies is currently seeking a highly motivated and skilled **Project Manager/Leader - Senior ** for one of our clients.

**Position: Project Manager/Leader - Senior**

**Location: Toronto Ontario (Hybrid)**

**Duration: Long Term Contract**

**Must Have**
- At least 7 years of experience in project management.
- At least 3 years of demonstrated experience in managing large scale public safety radio or telecommunication infrastructure projects.
- Experience facilitating effective meetings; creating and maintaining associated documents including minutes, action items, RACI charts, risk logs, critical path, etc.
- Proficiency in creating and managing project schedules using MS Project and Excel, developing/ assessing process flows, Visio, and establishing/ reviewing/ updating key performance indicators (KPIs).

**Experience and Skill Set Requirements**

**Project Management Skills**
- Able to work effectively on concurrent tasks, while also building capacity and providing opportunities for junior staff.
- A professional who can work without immediate direction while successfully informing management of required support (when needed).
- Demonstrated experience in managing project activities across multiple complex technology projects.
- Experience leading portfolio level planning sessions involving multiple projects and working across teams to achieve project goals.
- Demonstrated experience leading meetings, preparing and distributing/ presenting project updates, progress reports, risk mitigations, recommendations, etc. to project stakeholders.
- Experience developing, implementing, and managing complex network transition and migration strategies.
- Ability to manage vendor commitments, provide oversight and direction to ensure contractual obligations are met.
- Experience managing interdependencies related to key contract deliverables
- Reasonable knowledge of industry standards and methodologies
- Demonstrated experience identifying and evaluating specific issues or risks, providing options analysis, and recommending action plans to mitigate the risks.
- Demonstrated experience with standard project management tools, such as, MS Project, Clarity/Planview, Visio, MS Office Suite, SharePoint, PowerBI or equivalents.
- Experience creating and maintaining project management artefacts/project collaterals, such as, meeting minutes, project plans, briefing notes, change requests.
- Experience working with both the business users and technology / infrastructure teams.
- Excellent planning and time management skills with a focus on attention to detail.

**Communication and Relationship Management**
- Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal. Able to succinctly articulate key project information in a politically astute manner.
- A team player with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks, empower junior staff, monitor progress, provide guidance and hit milestones.
- Able to build relationships with project partners, establish trust, and establish a common/ shared goal through effective facilitation, consultation, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience developing and presenting briefing notes, status reports, communications, team & executive presentations. Attention to detail.

**Public safety radio or telecommunications infrastructure experience in a large public sector entity**
- Strong experience of working on/ in public safety radio and/or the telecommunications field.
- Experience working on related large and complex projects.
- Demonstrated experience of working with multiple stakeholders in a broader public sector (BPS) environment.
- Experience of projects involving, network design, network implementation, civil structures, user equipment distribution and operations.
- Knowledge and experience both in strategic and operational public sector governance models, experience managing complex, multi-unit, multi-stakeholder, and multiple levels of public sector executive stakeholder project team,
- Demonstrated experience developing mutually beneficial relationships with public sector entities.

**Analytical and Problem Solving**
- Ability to proactively identify risks, issues, or problems, gather relevant information, perform analysis, develop options and recommendations; and build reports to support decision-making on project scope, schedule, cost
- Accurately document issues, gaps, and inconsistencies when they happen and develop strategies/ mitigations/ lessons learned.
- Utilize judgement to explore cross team/ project opportunities for improvement.

**About Arthur Grand Technologies**:
Arthur Grand Technologies is a leading provider of staffing and technology consulting services. Our company is managed by a team of professionals who have worked for big 5 consulting firms for 20+ years. We are a minority-owned staff augmentation and technology consulting company.

Thank you for considering Arthur Grand Technologies. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

**Gay