RQ10425 - Sr. Project Manager/Leader

RQ10425 - Sr. Project Manager/Leader
1-year + contract (312 business days) - 2 possible extensions
REMOTE 5 days a week - Office: College st. Toronto 

Security Level: CRJMC

Scope

• JTS requires a temporary dedicated Project Manager Senior. It is expected that the consultant resource will have the necessary Project Management skills and demonstrated experience to provide leadership in the creation of a comprehensive business case and application solution requiring possible integration of commercial off the shelf solutions, product(s), .NET modules and other custom build components.

Assignment Deliverables

• Integrated Project & Schedule Planning: Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, detailed schedules, task breakdowns, dependencies, resource allocations, and cost estimates aligned with OPS methodologies.
• Project Reporting & Controls: Prepare regular status reports, track milestones, and document risks, issues, and mitigation strategies, including analysis of technical and business impacts.
• Team & Communication Management: Define team roles and responsibilities, facilitate meetings with stakeholders and vendors, and produce communication materials supporting decisions and project alignment.
• Knowledge & Interdependency Management: Maintain organized project documentation in shared repositories and monitor/report interdependencies across related projects and workstreams.
  

Desired Skills and Experience

• Leading the project team to work effectively and efficiently toward project objectives in a complex and diverse environment with multiple stakeholders and changing priorities to ensure high quality deliverables
• Leading technical teams by reviewing their work and resolving day to day issues
• Developing, maintaining and effectively executing integrated project plans throughout project lifecycle in accordance with OPS project management methodologies
• Developing and managing the project schedule, decomposing the project scope into measurable tasks, with responsibilities, timelines, dependencies, and costs Defining, clarifying roles and responsibilities and setting deliverables/quality/ performance expectations for project resources Resolving resourcing conflicts and negotiating changes to resourcing needs.
• Proactively planning and prioritizing tasks effectively to respond to numerous and diverse challenges and demands Managing internal and external expectations in line with project critical success factors
• Communicating and controlling the scope, time and cost of the project Ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner Identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, mitigating and communicating project risks throughout project lifecycle.
• Making recommendations based on the technical evaluation of risks and issues along with an understanding of the business implications.
• Ensuring documents are maintained in a shared repository and that knowledge is shared among team members.
• Assisting in the facilitation of team, vendor, and client meetings Communicating effectively to identify needs and evaluate solutions to complex business and technical issues Working collaboratively to resolve interdependencies between other projects/work streams
• Reporting on progress and provides timely status updates on assigned projects. Lead the development of a solution requirement specification for the options analysis component of the business case
• Assist in the detailed evaluation of build/procurement options for input into the business case Review technical practicability of alternative solutions that are available and most cost effective
• Conduct, assess, evaluate and document stakeholder interests and business needs Define business and/or functional requirements Options Analysis Costing analysis Business Case
• Demonstrate alignment with the program area requirement and associated business and logical architectures Provide architectural guidance, technical leadership and assistance
• Prepare project plans, charters, and other related project deliverables following the PMO methodologies in accordance with the JTS and Corporate PMO policies Detailed Project Plan including planned activities, major milestones, deliverables and target completion dates as directed by Solutions Portfolio Manager Other JTS PMO documentation, as required Utilize PM Tools and repositories to manage and track required project artefacts
• Ensure alignment and adherence to Ministry of Government Services processes and standards Lead the project through the Enterprise Architectural governance checkpoints at the cluster level and, where applicable, the corporate level
• The consultant resource will interface directly with the program area staff and management, is accountable for ensuring customer satisfaction, development concurrence, and addressing the status of concerns to the customer
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of applications Leadership experience in one or more of the following areas: Multi-tiered application development Selecting and establishing technical architectures Design and development of large or medium corporate applications Managing the implementation activities associated with large IT projects Experience in the use of project management software Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines

MUST HAVES:

1. Experience with implementing an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
2. Experience in health care, preferably a correctional health care setting
3. Experience working on digital health-related projects

Nice to have:

1. Experience with working for the Ontario Public Sector