RQ00693 - Int. Project Manager at Source Code in Toronto, ON, Canada

Job description

• The Project Manager will provide project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for the Agency. The Project Manager will keep timelines moving, follow up on issues and dependencies, bring the right people together when needed, and help make sure work is progressing as expected.

Responsibilities

• Work with different partners and subject matter experts from different organizational units (clinical, business, enterprise, and technical).
• Gain understanding of stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Develop and implement change management strategies and associated communications.
• Develop charters to guide the work.
• Prepare summaries for leadership, including status, risks, cadence, upcoming touchpoints.
• project updates,
• change notices,
• engagement summaries,
• meeting minutes & action logs.
• Support preparation of materials for governance, leadership updates, workshops, and consultations.
• Establish and maintain excellent working relationships and effective communication with the sponsor(s), internal and external partners, and project team members.
• Organize and lead project meetings.
• Ensure effective project change control.
• Track action items and ensure timely follow-up.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, and systematically resolve or escalate known issues in order that a clear output can be identified and achieved.

Requirements

• Strong stakeholder management, planning and resource management skills
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, organize inputs from multiple stakeholders, and maintain high-quality documentation.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational and time management skills, and the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and competing deadlines.
• Collaboration, coordinating tasks, and ensuring that everybody works together effectively, this also involves conflict resolution
• Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out
• Demonstrated ability to develop successful relationship and build agreement with high-level internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating executive expectations and translating into program deliverables
• Public Sector experience
• Strong working knowledge of the Project Management Institute's framework
• Proficient in MS Office
• Experience working alongside project and program managers in a highly complex environment with internal and external stakeholders, vendors and partners; while providing updates, escalating where required, identifying risks, and managing project document deliverables.
• Experience collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintain progress reporting, action items, risk management updates, etc.
• Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs.
• Experience with managing projects in Ontario's healthcare sector.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• 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
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Skills

Required

• Strong stakeholder management
• Planning and resource management
• Managing competing priorities
• Maintaining high-quality documentation
• Detail-oriented
• Collaboration
• Coordinating tasks
• Conflict resolution
• Public Sector experience
• Proficient in MS Office

Preferred

• Verbal and written communication skills
• Interpersonal and negotiation skills

Benefits

• Note: The higher end of the range is intended for absolutely exceptional candidates who meet all must-have requirements and most or all nice-to-have qualifications. The client will evaluate candidates based on both rate expectations and overall skill set when shortlisting.
• $82.25/hr - $98.77/hr Inc.
• $65.80/hr - $79.02/hr T4