At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead high-profile GIS projects and modernize IT infrastructure for the Ontario Public Service.
- Company: Join a dynamic team within the Ontario Public Service, focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid work options, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career advancement in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on public sector projects while developing your project management skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in GIS projects and IT infrastructure; strong leadership and communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 76500 - 93500 $ per year.
About the job RQ07730 - Project Manager/Leader
Must Haves:
- Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects
- Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
- Experience with ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
Nice to have skills:
- Experience with the OPS
Responsibilities
Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives. Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
In this role, the successful candidate will be required to lead 3 projects under the Geospatial Ontario IT Program:
- LIO Modernize Data Maintenance (38.5% allocation or 25 days of effort) – This project aims to review the data editing and maintenance requirements of users and data owners across the province.
- Providing Access to OPS GIS to LIO Warehouse (30.8% allocation or 20 days of effort) – This project aims to review the Geospatial Ontario Warehouse data access solutions against the needs of their users.
- LIO Data Modelling Standards (30.8% allocation or 20 days of effort) – This project aims to understand data owner required data model control and how those changes can support future user data access.
All Geospatial Ontario IT Program projects are composed of both IT Source Fee-For-Service and Full Time Employee resources. Projects will maintain independent, as well as, Program, and Corporate level governance.
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.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies.
- 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.
- Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management.
- Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions.
- Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies.
Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements
- Project Management Experience - 45
- Formal Project Management training
- Experience leading large, technically complex projects
- Experience identifying issues, risks, setting out project timelines, tracking, managing, and reporting progress
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary projects with IT groups, industry, and business clients
- Technical Experience - 25
- Experience GIS (Esri) based projects
- Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
- Experience with ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
- Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure
- Communication Experience - 25
- Experience resolving conflict
- Experience communicating technical concepts to lay audiences
- Experience negotiating project direction to achieve consensus
- Experience coordinating Business Analysts and stakeholder engagement
- Public Sector Experience - 5
- Experience leading IT projects through gating processes
- Experience overseeing business needs discovery, options analysis, and solution recommendations within the Public Sector.
- Experience coordinating the implementation of new IT solutions within the Public Sector.
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