Senior I&IT Project Manager

Job Title: Senior I&IT Project Manager

Location: Toronto Ontario

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: 8 months

Extension: 1 Time

Submission Deadline: 2026-07-20, 12:00 p.m. EST

Must Haves

• Demonstration of strong project management experience with over 5 years of experience.
• Specific business/application knowledge related to applications used to calculate annual funding allocations.
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality, meeting or exceeding expectations.
• Change-management principles and methodology expertise.
• Manage project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, and key deliverables,
• Supporting TB/MBC and SPP submission activities.
• Coordinate procurement activities
• Prepare polished executive-ready presentation materials.
• Oversee deliverables, project governance submission and tracking (through Planview), and the I&IT UPM gateway process.
• Prepare executive briefings and future RFB planning
• Provide senior project management leadership throughout the project lifecycle, leveraging a minimum of five years of project management experience to ensure successful project delivery.
• Lead the development, coordination, and tracking of TB/MBC, and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables, ensuring timelines and quality expectations are met.
• Strong Communication skills - able to conduct meetings and discussions with various stakeholders.

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Description

• This resource will coordinate cross-ministry governance, strategic planning, risk and issue management, stakeholder alignment and executive reporting.
• The resource needs to act as the primary liaison between business partners, IT teams, and senior leadership.
• Ensuring collaboration across all workstreams with the goal of securing a successful launch of a major enterprise I&IT project.

Core Skills 45%

• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality.
• Change-management principles and methodology expertise.
• Manage project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, and key deliverables.
• Supporting TB/MBC and SPP submission activities.
• Coordinate procurement activities.
• Oversee deliverables, project governance submission and tracking (through Planview), and the I&IT UPM gateway process.

Other Project Management Skills - 45%

• Lead the development, coordination, and tracking of TB/MBC, and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables.
• Plan and coordinate Executive Steering Committee, Director, and Working Group meetings, support the co-chairs.
• Coordinate cross-ministry governance activities and maintain alignment among business partners, I&IT teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Provide regular project status reporting to senior leadership, including progress updates, key decisions, risks, issues.
• Foster collaboration across ministries and stakeholder groups to ensure project objectives and governance requirements remain aligned.
• Lead change management planning and implementation activities to support stakeholder readiness, adoption, and organizational transition.

Public Sector - 10%

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size and complexity to Ontario Public Service.
• Demonstrates experience designing and developing applications that comply with GO-ITS standards would be an asset.
• Strong understanding of challenges and issues that ministry may have with respect to data.

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

Core Skills 45%

• Demonstration of strong project management experience with over 5 years of experience.
• Specific business/application knowledge related to applications used to calculate annual funding allocations.
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality, meeting or exceeding expectations.
• Change-management principles and methodology expertise.
• Manage project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, and key deliverables,
• Supporting TB/MBC and SPP submission activities.
• Coordinate procurement activities
• Prepare polished executive-ready presentation materials.

Other Project Management Skills - 45%

• Provide senior project management leadership throughout the project lifecycle, leveraging a minimum of five years of project management experience.
• Lead the development, coordination, and tracking of TB/MBC, and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables, ensuring timelines and quality expectations are met.
• Plan and coordinate, Executive Steering Committee, Director, and Working Group meetings, support the co-chairs, ensuring effective governance.
• Coordinate cross-ministry governance activities and maintain alignment among business partners, I&IT teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Provide regular project status reporting to senior leadership, including progress updates, key decisions, risks, issues, financial status, and recommendations.
• Lead change management planning and implementation activities to support stakeholder readiness, adoption, and successful organizational transition.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities.
• Support the onboarding of the project into Planview, ensuring alignment with OPS enterprise-wide Project Portfolio Management (PPM) best practices.

Public Sector - 10%

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size and complexity to Ontario Public Service.
• Demonstrates experience designing and developing applications that comply with GO-ITS standards would be an asset
• Strong understanding of challenges and issues that ministry may have with respect to data