Senior Project Manager/Leader in Toronto

Location: 40 St. Clair West, Toronto (Hybrid - 3-4 days in the office as needed)

Duration: 1+ year contract (264 business days) + 1 possible extension

Must Have:

• 10+ years of senior project management experience
• Experience leading large, complex and high-profile multi-disciplinary projects with multiple business and IT stakeholders with strong scope-budget-schedule and IRAD management skills.
• Proven experience in leading digital initiatives from concept to launch through progressive stages – Concept, Discovery, Design, Prototype, Implementation and Go-Live
• Proven experience leading stakeholder consultations, facilitation and consensus building.
• Ability to build positive relationships with the project team and external parties and provide strategies to overcome resistance to change.
• Political acuity to collaborate and lead/participate in relationship-building forums with multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
• Ability to develop and facilitate IT partnerships with business clients and ensure understanding of business directions, objectives, and priorities.
• Experience managing vendor teams through planning, milestones, guidance, policies, procedures and project deliverables.
• Ability to influence vendor teams for on-scope, on-time, on-budget, quality and timely completion of vendor deliverables integrated with client deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide project management leadership and expertise of large scale, highly complex, high profile, multi-jurisdictional and enterprise-wide Discovery initiative following Ontario Digital Standard.
• Ensure the project is delivered cost effectively and efficiently, and in compliance with organization's methodologies, digital standards and governance frameworks.
• Provide strong project management including scope, budget and schedule management.
• Manage project IRAD (Issues, Risk, Actions, Decisions).
• Manage project governance committees (steering, gating, checkpoints); project financials; resources; stakeholders; project reporting and escalation.
• Lead stakeholder consultations, facilitation and consensus building.
• Build positive relationships with divisional stakeholders and subject matter experts, project team and external parties.
• Manage interdependencies and resolve complex issues across multiple project streams.
• Provide strategic direction and advice, and operational support to project teams and stakeholders.
• Provide analysis, strategic recommendations and advice to reporting Management on various options brought forward by vendor and IT partners.
• Coordinate and complete Digital First Assessment (DFA) for the Discovery phase.

Skills Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing Discovery project from inception through to project close-out, coordination of Digital First Assessment (DFA) and any required transition to operations.
• Experience leading and facilitating user research, service design, journey maps, jurisdictional scan and conceptual solution development.
• Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating business and IT executive expectations and translating into project deliverables.
• Experience monitoring and managing the scope, budget, schedule, risk, resources, deliverables, governance, and technical performance of complex high-profile multi-disciplinary projects.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business needs/requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness and compliance with OPS project management methodologies.
• Experience analyzing project environments to identify potential risks and issues; articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to senior executives.
• Experience providing view of project inter-dependencies, internal and external project dependencies, monitoring and reporting on exposure levels.
• Experience directing stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building.
• Provides project reporting to multiple stakeholders.
• Experience leading strategies to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change.
• Experience building positive relationships within the team and among multiple stakeholders.
• Adheres to OPS standards, guidelines and project management best practices.
• Experience managing Discovery vendor deliverables and performing effective vendor management.
• Plan and lead project deliverables using Agile and OPS Digital approaches.
• Experience directing, managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time.
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, interactions, progress, roadblocks, and developing/communicating guidelines to stakeholders.
• Formal project management training/certification such as PMP, Scrum, Agile.
• Knowledge of OPS enterprise architecture practices, specifically business and information architecture.
• Knowledge of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices using both predictive and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.

Note: The higher end of the range is intended for exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.

Rate: $96.65/hr - $116.00/hr Inc.