RQ00496 - Project Manager - Senior

Must haves:

• University degree in computer science, health care, business or related discipline is required
  
• Direct/indirect related work experience representing continuous learning and required for someone to perform this job competently is ten to fifteen years.
  
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or actively working towards a designation is preferred
  
• Experience with Project Management Lifecycle, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/Scrum
  
• Experience delivering I&IT projects, including promotion of applications and services through different environments
  
• Experience with of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server
  
• Sound knowledge of finance and project cost-accounting principles and practices with demonstrated experience with managing project budgets
  
• Demonstrated know-how to get projects delivered under challenging circumstances and tight timelines
  
• IT Infrastructure and ITIL experience an asset
  
• An ability to build strong relationships with clients, vendors and stakeholders
  
• Superior leadership and communication skills
  
• Well-developed analytical and dispute resolution skills
  
• Technical knowledge/expertise is an asset
  
• Experience with managing cloud projects (Azure or AWS) is an asset
  

Responsibilities:

The Senior Project Manager is responsible to oversee projects and workstreams, including management of issues, risks and service change requests to ensure successful and on-time deployment of workstreams. 

• Develop and manage the Integrated Project Plan
  
• Forecast, monitor and report dedicated budgets for approved projects within the portfolio
  
• Engage with vendors and stakeholders; handle client relationships to manage expectations
  
• Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed; identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas
  
• Work closely with Architecture, Standards, Privacy and Security teams within Ontario Health to refine business requirements
  
• Articulate and prioritize issues and risks and recommend mitigation strategies for decision makers
  
• Use appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out
  
• Ensure go-live readiness: technical, configuration, conformance obligations and any workflow modifications
  
• Develop project status reports, deployment reporting/tracking and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs for stakeholders within Ontario Health and the ministry
  
• Update and monitor project document repository to ensure all documents are reviewed and maintained in the repository
  

Required Skills:

• Experience with Project Management Lifecycle, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/Scrum
  
• Experience delivering I&IT projects, including promotion of applications and services through different environments
  
• Experience with of Microsoft Office Suite, including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server
  
• Sound knowledge of finance and project cost-accounting principles and practices with demonstrated experience with managing project budgets
  
• Demonstrated know-how to get projects delivered under challenging circumstances and tight timelines
  
• Experience with managing cloud projects (preferably AWS cloud)
  
• IT Infrastructure and ITIL experience an asset
  
• An ability to build strong relationships with clients, vendors and stakeholders
  
• Superior leadership and communication skills
  
• Well-developed analytical and dispute resolution skills
  
• Technical knowledge/expertise is an asset
  

Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria:  

• Minimum ten to fifteen years of project management experience demonstrating ability to project planning and execution. Experience with creating a comprehensive project plan with milestones, resource allocation, risk management, and timelines for the migration to Cloud AWS. 15 Points
  
• Excellent communication skills, demonstrating strength in presentation skills, verbal, written, active listening, conflict resolution and stress tolerance. 15 Points
  
• Understanding of AWS services and cloud infrastructure and demonstrate experience with project managing solution in AWS cloud and migration planning from on-prem data center to cloud. 15 Points
  
• Experience with Project Management Lifecycle, Software Development Lifecycle, project delivery methodologies like waterfall, Agile/Scrum. 15 Points
  
• Experience managing projects integrating Electronic Health Record (EHR) system with complex dependencies on various products across different stakeholders, setting expectations and fostering collaborative working environment. 15 Points
  
• Demonstrated knowledge of finance and project cost-accounting principles and practices with demonstrated experience with managing project budgets. 15 Points
  
• Professional certifications: Project Management Professional; Knowledge and understanding of Project Management's Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge. 10 Points
  

• 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
  
• Accountable for on time, on budget completion of assigned projects following the Ontario Health's project governance framework and project management methodology as well as adhering to and promoting Ontario Health policies and standards, including privacy, security and architecture.
  
• Responsible for resource management, scope management, budget and schedule management for the assigned programs and/or projects
  
• Develop project charters, integrated project plans and other project artifacts as required
  
• Ensure effective project change control including managing IT RFCs and deployments to the various environments
  
• Provide financial forecasts, actual against budget tracking and report progress and variance to stakeholders
  
• Proactively manage risks, and systematically resolve or escalate issues
  
• Ensure project reporting and forecasting is timely, accurate and appropriate for the various stakeholders
  
• Provide feedback and participate in continuous improvement initiatives
  
• Mentor and coach junior project management resources
  
• Manage transition of the product/project/work package to an operational environment.
  

Must Haves: 

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or actively working towards a designation is preferred 
  
• 10+ years Experience with Project Management Lifecycle, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile/Scrum 
  
• 10+ years experience delivering I&IT projects, including promotion of applications and services through different environments 
  
• 10+ years experience with of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server