Job Title: Project Manager/Leader
Duration: 06 months of assignment
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid) 

Mandatory Requirements

• Certified Project Manager 
• At least 8 years Project Management experience in delivering complex digital/I&IT projects using agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies

 
Desired Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of Project Management, best practices, tools and organizational structures to support two-way communication with a large group of project partners. 
• Technical, functional knowledge of project management tracking tools (i.e. MS project).  
• Ability to develop visually appealing products that can depict short-, medium-, and long-term project milestones and timelines. 
• Ability to proactively identify 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.
• Able to comprehend business process and technology to lead and facilitate discussions and feedback to prepare a transformation roadmap.
• Deliver high level options analysis and recommendations to management on workplans to ensure compliance to timelines and project goals.
• Assist in the detailed evaluation and development of workplans to remove or mitigate project delays, specifically due to dependencies.  

 
 Project Management and Leadership -

• Ability to perform in a large, complex organization, leading a cross-functional and diverse team of managers and professional staff to deliver results on time.
• Ability to develop, manage and implement a large-scale digital/I&IT project supporting both the technology implementation and business process transformation using multi-faceted strategies and tools that are comprehensive and effective in accomplishing project goals, milestones and outcomes. 
• Ability to work and integrate with cross competency teams including (but not limited to) business, IT, infrastructure, vendors and 3rd party applications
• Demonstrated success leading a large-scale, complex digital and business transformation project, including working with executive and senior management to set objectives, secure consensus on approaches, execute delivery, and evaluate results. 
• Ability to leverage existing project plan from Ministry and Vendor, and gather and develop emerging requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan across all CDT and partner areas. Detailed project schedule to include intersections and dependencies with other Ministry modernization initiatives not in scope for CDT but present an impact and dependency with/on CDT.
• Ability to create and maintain an integrated project plan that aligns with other Ministry modernization initiatives
• Ability to prepare and provide status reports, briefing notes, and visually appealing communication products for all levels of project governance, as well as stakeholder forums.   
• Ability to exercise appropriate strategies related to change management, during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Ability to manage the implementation activities and timelines associated with large, complex projects to coordinate I&IT, people and change management, and business process changes to support this large digital and business transformation.  
• Knowledge of and ability to use project management software and methodologies in a dynamic environment.
• Demonstrate analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills

 
Risk and Issues Management

• Demonstrate experience in identifying potential organizational and project risks in advance and developing plans with the support of collaborative partner representatives to develop plans to remove or mitigate those risks.
• Demonstrate appropriate discretion in escalating risks and issues to Senior Leadership.  
• Ability to communicate risk and recommendations for mitigating strategies and ownership to be endorsed through project governance which includes multiple levels of executive leadership.  
• Ability to manage and support incidents that pose risk to the organization and project, including reputational.  
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Communications and Stakeholder Management

• Demonstrate oral and written communication skills to conduct internal consultations, collaborate with senior management and various project leads, develop reports, proposals and associated communications regarding the project plan, risks and issues.
• Demonstrate networking and consultation skills to develop and maintain effective partnerships with project leads, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and facilitate communications functions to connect a cross-functional and diverse range of partners, often with competing priorities, to deliver consistency in representation while driving consensus needed for delivery of project milestones on time.  
• Demonstrate presentation and reporting skills to provide reports, briefings, advice, strategies and recommendations.
• Demonstrate proficiency with different computer applications (MS office suite, Adobe, online engagement tools), to develop presentations of the project plan, risk, issues and other documents or topics as required.  

 
Project Management Best Practices

• Prior experience in Project Management delivery using agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies.  
• Prior experience in complying with best practices, policies, and procedures in a highly regulated and legislated environment.  
• Prior experience of quality assurance, demonstrated by the identification of standards and criteria to be set in each phase of the project life cycle for both the product and the process.
• Prior experience in making and meeting agreed to commitments with a constant eye for improvement.  

 
Knowledge Transfer

• What needs to be KT
• Project Plans, Consultations and findings, project background documentation.
• Integrated project team membership and representation. 
• Project specific Presentations, reports, status decks.
• Transformation Consultant
• Senior Project Management Consultant

 

Must haves:

• Certified Project Manager 
• At least 8 years of Project Management experience in delivering complex digital/I&IT projects using agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies

Nice to have:
Public Sector Experience

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 80.00/hr.