IT Project Manager/leader - Toronto, Canada - Dawn InfoTek Inc.
Description
Dawn InfoTek Inc. is a professional IT consulting team that partners with major financial institutions, investment firms and government sectors. We have been dedicated to delivering cutting-edge consulting services and recruiting all levels of IT positions for our clients.Responsibilities
- 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 costeffectiveness, 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
- 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
- Sources, selects and onboards 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 interpersonal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
- 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 multistakeholders 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 closeout.
- 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.
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Project Management Skills - 35%
- Experience in planning, organizing and implementing projects and reporting solutions
- 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
- 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
- Familiarity with change management principles and methodology
End-to-end experience with Planview Enterprise - 30%
- Experience working with the various modules of Planview Enterprise (e.g. intake, financial management, request management, resource management, strategic portfolio management, etc.)
Training Skills - 20%
- Experience providing both oneonone and group training in an office setting
- Experience developing training materials such as job aid and user guides
- Experience creating electronic presentations (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Interpersonal Skills - 15%
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills
- Strong relationship management skills with the ability to interact with different teams across the organization with ease and professionalism
- Strong communication skills with experience working in a team environment
MUST
5+ years of Project Manager experience - strong Communication and Coordination, Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
Experience with driving forums, responsible for coordinating roll outs that are
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