Project Manager/Leader

  • Toronto, ON
  • Posted 20 hours ago | Updated 20 hours ago

Overview

On Site
$90 - $90
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - 12 month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Project Management
Enterprise IT Projects
PIA
TIA
RFI

Job Details

Job Description:
  • The Project Manager will lead and deliver large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk I&IT initiatives.
  • The role requires proven experience with multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects, extensive stakeholder engagement, strong leadership, and technical expertise in project management methodologies, Agile/Waterfall frameworks, and cloud implementations.
Responsibilities:
  • Provides project management on large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk projects for client I&IT initiatives.
  • Ensures project deliverables meet business requirements on time, within scope, and budget.
  • Drives efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and compliance with client methodologies and frameworks.
Must Have:
  • Extensive end-to-end project management experience.
  • Proven experience with multi-million-dollar, multi-year projects.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills in highly complex environments.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong leadership with a passion to drive projects to completion.
  • Delivery-focused and results-oriented mindset.
  • Strong business project management experience with proven stakeholder engagement.
  • Experience in formulating and defining business/technical requirements, objectives, product visions, and outcomes.
  • Experience preparing status reports and presenting to senior leadership and non-technical audiences.
  • Knowledge of Agile and Waterfall frameworks.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Teams.
  • Working knowledge of DevOps (Azure).
  • Prior experience with cloud-related project implementations.
Nice to Have:
  • OPS/Public Sector experience.
  • Product Management knowledge.
  • PMP or other Project Management certifications.
General Skills:
  • Leads organizational development, strategy, business planning, and funding requests.
  • Gathers and develops requirements to create and maintain detailed project schedules and integrated plans.
  • Monitors and forecasts project costs with reporting to ensure targets are met.
  • Develops and manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
  • Promotes project management best practices and adherence to methodologies.
  • Directs project teams to ensure compliance with government and ministry standards.
  • Coordinates project processes and develops communication guidelines.
  • Sources, selects, and on-boards team members across disciplines (OPS employees and consultants).
  • Resolves conflicts, negotiates resourcing changes, and ensures knowledge sharing across teams.
  • Develops complex project budgets with multiple funding channels.
  • Manages project budgets with accountability, forecasts, and reconciliation.
  • Identifies risks and issues proactively, recommends mitigation strategies.
  • Establishes and participates in steering committees and stakeholder forums.
  • Provides project/program/portfolio reporting to senior executive stakeholders.
  • Manages change resistance and fosters support throughout project stages.
  • Promotes I&IT project management standards and best practices.
Desirable Skills:
  • Knowledge of PMI s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
  • Understanding of Information Management principles and practices.
  • Ability to recommend software, hardware, and technology acquisitions.
  • Experience monitoring projects, resolving issues, and ensuring effectiveness.
  • Ability to manage client expectations, relationships, and resolve conflicts.
Skills:

Project Management (35%):

  • 10+ years of enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
  • Proven experience managing multi-million, multi-year projects.
  • Expertise in stakeholder, risk, change, issue, time, scope, and resource management.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office tools (Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams).
  • Experience with collaboration/project tools (Jira, Trello, MS Project, Kanban, etc.).
  • Strong financial forecasting and reconciliation skills.
  • Experience defining business/technical requirements and outcomes.
  • Ability to collaborate with policy, IT, legal, communications, and privacy teams.
Technical, Deployment and Project Integration Skills (35%):
  • Experience managing various software development methodologies (Agile/Scrum, MVPs).
  • Knowledge of I&IT technology deployment/rollout.
  • Experience leading technology infrastructure procurements.
  • Ability to define, plan, and deliver end-to-end business, operational, and IT solutions.
  • Knowledge of Oracle deployment environments.
  • Experience leading QA activities and processes.
Documentation Skills (20%):
  • Experience preparing privacy, financial, communication, and IT documentation.
  • Examples include: Business Cases, Privacy Impact Assessments, Threat Impact Assessments, RFIs, RFS.
Public Sector Experience (10%):
  • Experience with Public Sector ITIL processes (incident, release, problem management).
  • Knowledge of client business processes, project gating, and business rules.
  • Familiarity with government network and desktop infrastructure procurement and support models.
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