Responsibilities:
- Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for Government 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 Government project management methodologies and frameworks.
- Promotes Government 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.
- Process coordination and optimization.
- Client relationship management, with a particular focus on Gov t/NGO/NPO, risk advisory, and consulting environments.
- Ensures project deliverables meet clients business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with Government project management methodologies and frameworks.
- 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.
- 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 Government unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
- Resolves resourcing and interpersonal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ability to manage multiple streams of work.
- Operate in a fast-paced project with many of external dependencies.
- Ability to pivot as required while prioritizing/triaging tasks and the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.