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 cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and
  compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

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
• 
  Sources,
  selects and on-boards 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 inter-personal 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 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:

• 
  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

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 
  The
  candidate must possess a strong understanding of Siebel functionalities,
  features, terminologies, work breakdown structure, data structure
  knowledge, components, dependencies, etc.
• 
  The
  candidate must possess an expert understanding of Siebel Resource skills,
  roles and responsibilities.
• 
  The
  candidate must be able to have good communication skills not only with
  Business stakeholders, Project Leadership but also with the Siebel and IT
  technical resources.
• 
  Experience
  in project planning, management and monitoring experience related to all
  phases of concurrent I&IT projects using multiple technologies and
  methodologies
• 
  Experience
  in creating and tracking the project progress, project decisions and
  notes, risk log and change management
• 
  Experience
  in managing and coordinating different stakeholders and project resources,
  assignments and progresses
• 
  Experience
  in change management from I&IT project implementation including
  documenting changes, providing options, estimating impact and seeking
  approval or direction from the project executive.
• 
  demonstrated
  interpersonal and consultation skills to communicate project deliverables
  and build strong project teams and client relationships

Nice to have:

• 
  knowledge
  of the OPS I&IT project management governance and methodologies would
  be an asset
• 
  Experience
  with public sector I&IT project change management would be an
  asset
• 
  Experience
  with Public Sector Transfer Payment (Grant) Model would be an asset

Skill Set Requirements:

I&IT Project Management Knowledge and Experience:

• 
  The
  candidate must possess a strong understanding of Siebel functionalities,
  features, terminologies, work breakdown structure, data structure
  knowledge, components, dependencies, etc.
• 
  The
  candidate must possess an expert understanding of Siebel Resource skills,
  roles and responsibilities.
• 
  The
  candidate must be able to have good communication skills not only with
  Business stakeholders, Project Leadership but also with the Siebel and IT
  technical resources.
• 
  Experience
  in project planning, management and monitoring experience related to all
  phases of concurrent I&IT projects using multiple technologies and
  methodologies
• 
  Experience
  in creating and tracking the project progress, project decisions and
  notes, risk log and change management
• 
  Experience
  in managing and coordinating different stakeholders and project resources,
  assignments and progresses
• 
  The
  candidate should be detail-oriented, able to work under pressure and has a
  keen ability for prioritization of issues.
• 
  Technical
  knowledge and experience to assess and question effort estimates provided
  by team resources and identified risks and issues inherent in the
  technology selected, the approach taken and OPS procedures and policies
  that apply including project architecture, gating and security

Change Management Skills and Experience:

• 
  Experience
  in change management from I&IT project implementation including
  documenting changes, providing options, estimating impact and seeking
  approval or direction from the project executive.
• 
  Team
  building and leadership skills in order to engage the project team and
  ensure collaboration and focus on achieving project
  deliverables

Communication and Interpersonal Skills:

• 
  demonstrated
  interpersonal and consultation skills to communicate project deliverables
  and build strong project teams and client relationships
• 
  demonstrated
  written and verbal communication skills to resolve problems and
  design/deliver presentations, proposals and business cases.
• 
  strong
  negotiation skills to negotiate project scope, approach and outcomes that
  meet business needs and help the client make decisions that will get the
  solution delivered when they need it.

Public Sector Experience:

• 
  knowledge
  of the OPS I&IT project management governance and methodologies would
  be an asset
• 
  Experience
  with public sector I&IT project change management would be an
  asset
• 
  Experience
  with Public Sector Transfer Payment (Grant) Model would be an asset