Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager
Job ID: 80045
Location: Orillia, Ontario

What you will be doing:

• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

• Process coordination and optimization.

• Client relationship management, with a particular focus on Gov’t/NGO/NPO, risk advisory, and consulting environments.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.

• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.

• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.

• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.

• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects - concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.

What you must have:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge

•  Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices

•  Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources

•  Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness

• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict

• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

•  Ability to manage multiple streams of work

• Operate in a fast-paced project with many of external dependencies

•  Ability to pivot as required while prioritizing/triaging tasks and the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders

For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com