Project Manager 7999-0615

at  Foilcon

CORE SKILLS:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating and planning for the modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multitier complex product development environment
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests
• Create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels
• Act as the technical advisor/expert on all aspects of a specific deliverable
• Provide project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Experience with the various software development methodologies such as Agile/Scrum and waterfall
• Familiar with Ontario Digital Standards act and guidelines for digital government.
• Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Demonstrated experience with requirement management, quality assurance and change management processes and tools
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

• Demonstrated experience with various project management tools, Azure DevOps and/or Jira producing project planning and coordination documentation (Business Case, Processes, Charter, Integrated project plan, Migration plans, schedules, project kick off materials, roadmaps etc.)
• Experience tracking project finances and burn rates, earn value analysis as well as resource allocation.
• Collaborate with the Ministry’s product owner to prioritize the product backlog
• Collaborate with diverse teams and negotiate solutions with multiple stakeholders
• Proficient at requirements refinement, story point estimation, velocity, retrospection and other scrum techniques
• Contribute to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization
• Exemplify and promotes Agile values and principles
• Coordinating and executing Threat Risk Analysis (TRA) and Privacy Impact Analysis, and addressing outcomes and/or recommendations
• Proactively identifies and manages potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers
• Experience in documenting business, technical and system processes and requirements; experience in identifying, reviewing and analyzing solution implementation options and alternatives, including associated risks, documenting results and presenting conclusions
• Ability to introduce best practices, templates, SharePoint management sites for software development. Skills in consensus building and issue resolution involving key stakeholders, and members of teams
• Excellent communication and written skills
• A team player working well under stress and tight deadlines
  Skills
  Experience and Skill Set Requirements

CORE SKILLS - 50%

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating and planning for the modernization of large, complex multi-platform, multitier complex product development environment
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests
• Create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies
• Act as the technical advisor/expert on all aspects of a specific deliverable
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Experience with the various software development methodologies such as Agile/Scrum and waterfall
• Familiar with Ontario Digital Standards act and guidelines for digital government.
• Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Demonstrated experience with requirement management, quality assurance and change management processes and tools
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS - 50%

• Demonstrated Experience with various project management tools, Azure DevOps and/or Jira producing project planning and coordination documentation (Business Case, Processes, Charter, Integrated project plan, Migration plans, schedules, project kick off materials, roadmaps etc.)
• Experience tracking project finances and burn rates, earn value analysis as well as resource allocation.
• Collaborate with the Ministry’s product owner to prioritize the product backlog
• Collaborate with diverse teams and negotiate solutions with multiple stakeholders
• Proficient at requirements refinement, story point estimation, velocity, retrospection and other scrum techniques
• Contribute to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization
• Exemplify and promotes Agile values and principles
• Coordinating and executing Threat Risk Analysis (TRA) and Privacy Impact Analysis, and addressing outcomes and/or recommendations
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers
• Experience in documenting business, technical and system processes and requirements; experience in identifying, reviewing and analyzing solution implementation options and alternatives, including associated risks, documenting results and presenting conclusions
• Ability to introduce best practices, templates, SharePoint management sites for software development Skills in consensus building and issue resolution involving key stakeholders, and members of teams
• projects
• Excellent communication and written skills
• A team player working well under stress and tight deadlines

Must haves:

• Demonstrated experience with various project management tools, Azure DevOps and/or Jira producing project planning and coordination documentation (Business Case, Processes, Charter, Integrated project plan, Migration plans, schedules, project kick off materials, roadmaps etc.)
• Experience in acting as the technical advisor/expert on all aspects of a specific deliverable (e.g. large scale migration projects)
• Experience in collaborating with product owners to prioritize the product backlog
• Experience in collaborating with diverse teams and negotiating solutions with multiple stakeholders

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
• Ensure 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.