IT Portfolio Manager - Toronto, Canada - Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

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Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Provide support in all aspects of the ITC portfolio.

Maintain and monitor project governance standards and risk assessments to ensure that ITC projects are initiated, budgeted, executed and managed in a manner that will provide oversight to ITC executives.

Major Responsibilities:

IT portfolio advisor for oversight on governance, risk management, reporting, communication strategies, including, but not limited to:

Guiding portfolio through development and maturity phases;
Benchmarking dependencies within assigned portfolios related to ITC roadmap;
Coordinating with internal teams for portfolio health check assessments;
Developing portfolio managed protocols;
Engaging stakeholders within dependent disciplines, such as; Contract Management, Quality Management, Procurement, and Legal;
Championing innovative and valueadd solutions for portfolio deliverables;
Developing communication vehicles for executive management teams including risk assessment, dependencies, corporate goal alignment and budget

Assess IT portfolio viability within appropriate timelines and interdependencies, including, but not limited to:

Assessing initiative proposals and business cases;
Advising on requirement gathering consolidations
Creating executive management reports for portfolio risks, budget, monthly status, recommendations, health checks;
Designing and managing communication plans and strategies;
Managing standard change management practices;
Monitoring and advising on portfolio health check assessments;

Contribute to the development of portfolio artifacts for terms of reference, concept documents, business cases, including, but not limited to:

Promoting integrity of portfolio processes with the PMO;
Advising PMO statuses, as required;
Recommending changes and improvements to portfolio processes and methodologies.

Facilitate the ITC intake process including:

Facilitating meetings for new requests
Forecasting resources
Developing and supporting reporting and monitoring tools.

Support Manager, Planning Management:

Providing advice and guidance for portfolio governance and benefits realization;
Ensuring support protocols and appropriate standards and best practices;
Advising on portfolio interrelationships supporting priority and resource allocation decisions;
Promoting continuous improvement through lessons learned and facilitating recommendations.

Implement project portfolio dashboards, scorecards and reports:

Creation and generation of IT scorecards;
Providing recommendations for dashboards, scorecard reporting;
Planning for the 3to5 years ahead, consistent with the IT roadmap.

Proving advice on ITC initiatives that are of a sensitive nature (for example, IT outsourcing) as assigned:

Ensuring adherence to processes and governance in terms of time, cost and benefits;
Managing endtoend portfolio scope, resources, budget and deliverables;
Facilitating and managing meetings.

Requirements:

Education:

Postsecondary degree in a business related field/ or equivalent combination of work experience.

Experience:

810 years
Experience managing large projects.

Technical Professional Qualifications:

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent

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