Responsibilities:

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

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  Leads
  organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and
  Ministry funding requests.
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  Gathers
  and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed
  project schedule and/or integrated plan.
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  Ability
  to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to
  ensure targets are met
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  Experience
  developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
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  Ability
  to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to
  standard methodologies
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  Demonstrated
  experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are
  delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
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  Extensive
  experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and
  developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
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  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.
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  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.
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  Develops
  complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross
  ministry dependencies.
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  Effectively
  manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control
  and accountability including estimates, forecasts and
  reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
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  Proactively
  identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that
  proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
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  Articulates
  and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends
  mitigation strategies for decision makers.
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  Establishes
  and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
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  Provides,
  project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at
  senior executive levels.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Awareness
  / knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions
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  Ability
  to adapt to changing trends, leverage emerging tools and methodologies,
  and effectively lead projects to success in today’s dynamic IT landscape

Desirable Skills:

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  Knowledge
  and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management
  Body of Knowledge
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  Knowledge
  and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies
  and practices
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  Knowledge
  and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act
  (AODA) and related regulations and standards
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  Ability
  to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and
  technology resources
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  Experience
  managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and
  troubleshoots issues,
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  provides
  ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
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  Ability
  to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops
  responses to successfully address conflict
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  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:

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  Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large,
  complex, multi-stakeholder projects
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  Ability to prioritize workload, demonstrate critical
  thinking, identify problems, develop and implement solutions
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  Experience managing a project following an Iterative project
  delivery methodology

Skill Set Requirements:

Project Management Skills:

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  Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large,
  complex, multi-stakeholder projects
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  Demonstrated experience in developing executive-level
  briefings, presentations and status reporting
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  Significant experience in coordinating a large team and
  ensuring knowledge is shared amongst team members
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  Extensive complex project management and delivery experience
  with both IT and business aspects/attributes
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  Experience developing and managing project schedules,
  deliverables, and scope
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  Ability to prioritize workload, demonstrate critical
  thinking, identify problems, develop and implement solutions
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  Demonstrated project issue and risk management experience
  for high-risk, high-profile and complex projects
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  Demonstrated experience directing project development teams
  to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government
  and ministry standards

Technical Skills:

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  Experience managing a project following an Iterative project
  delivery methodology
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  Knowledge and understanding of Information Management
  policies and practices
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  Experience in identifying barriers and required success
  factors for effective integration or collaboration
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  Knowledge of standards for health care data exchange, in
  particular Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and SmileCDR
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  Knowledge of and experience integrating solutions with
  Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Hospital Information Systems (HIS)
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  Experience working with containers and container
  orchestration tools such as RedHat Openshift or Kubernetes
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  Experience developing and consuming RESTful APIs
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  Experience with the following languages/frameworks: Java
  frameworks such as Spring Boot and Quarkus, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript,
  HAPI FHIR, Node.js, YAML, ELK Stack

Communication Skills:

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  Superior verbal and written communication skills to
  effectively inform executive decision-making and to report status to corporate
  governance bodies including group facilitation skills, experience in preparing
  reports, proposals, briefing materials, presentations, and other communications
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  Strong consulting skills to engage with stakeholders
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  Strong customer service orientation to ensure needs of
  clients are effectively met
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  Demonstrated team player with excellent multi-tasking
  abilities and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines

Healthcare Experience:

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  Demonstrated experience in a healthcare or clinical context
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  Demonstrated experience supporting stakeholder engagement
  activities, particularly in a healthcare context
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  Demonstrated experience with the privacy and security
  requirements of software development in a healthcare or clinical context.