Project Manager (Intermediate) 7730-2113

at  Foilcon

GENERAL SKILLS:

• 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
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• 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
• 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.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• 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.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• 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.
• 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.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience leading projects involving Esri-based geospatial solutions, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, GIS infrastructure, middleware, maintenance, services, applications, databases, monitoring, and tools.
• Experience leading projects involving integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.
• integrated networking technologies, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Spatial, MS Fabric, midrange server, enterprise storage, and personal computer system technologies.
• 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

Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements

PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE - 45

• Formal Project Management training
• Experience leading large, technically complex projects
• Experience identifying issues, risks, setting out project timelines, tracking, managing, and reporting progress
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary projects with IT groups, industry, and business clients

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE - 25

• Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects
• Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
• Experience with ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online
• Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure

COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE - 25

• Experience resolving conflict
• Experience communicating technical concepts to lay audiences
• Experience negotiating project direction to achieve consensus
• Experience coordinating Business Analysts and stakeholder engagement

PUBLIC SECTOR EXPERIENCE - 5

• Experience leading IT projects though gaiting processes, and working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience overseeing business needs discovery, options analysis, and solution recommendations within the Public Sector.
• Experience coordinating the implementation of new IT solutions within the Public Sector

Must Haves:

• Experience leading GIS (Esri) based projects
• Experience leading IT Infrastructure modernization and maintenance focused projects
• Experience with ArcGIS Portal and/or ArcGIS Online

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with the OPS

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