Job Description:
Responsibilities:

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for Government I&IT initiatives.
• Manage Organizational Change Management in a leadership role for the Project.
• Lead a team of Change Management consultants on a large scale, complex, high profile and high risk project for Government I&IT initiative.
• 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.

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Leads organizational change management strategy development and planning.
• 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 and change 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 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.
• 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 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.

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 Organizational Change Management
• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management
• Knowledge and understanding of communication, training and stakeholder 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

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Organizational Change Management Skills (OCM) (30%):

• Advanced knowledge of organizational change management practices and the ability to coordinate implementation processes within the Government-wide environment.
• Lead the implementation of People and Change Management and Communications Plans, rewards and recognition, coaching and provide implementation advice to senior leadership across the Government .
• Have the ability to act as a change agent for a large-scale multi-year initiative by researching data and conducting change management analysis.
• Expert in stakeholder communication and mediation skills.
• Strong organizational skills to manage a high volume of communications and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Knowledge of financial management framework and planning, budgeting and forecasting within large organizations is an asset.

Leadership skills (30%):

• Provide leadership, coaching and advisory/guidance to the OCM team
• Have demonstrated knowledge of project and organizational change management methodology and practices to assist with project planning components
• Ability to analyse a range of information impacting the successful implementation of large-scale initiative by reviewing and commenting on corporate policies to ensure that the needs of Government are addressed.

Interpersonal, Influencing and Communications Skills (20%):

• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills to establish working relationships, influence and support promotion of the project.
• Strong oral and written communication skills to prepare reports, presentations, learning programs/materials, briefing notes and recommendations to senior management.
• Strong presentation and persuasion skills to explain and help promote initiatives to various stakeholders.
• Have consultation and mediation skills to consult with managers across the Government on various types of I&IT portfolios, programs and projects; to gain support for program initiatives; and to provide guidance/advice in relation to business transformation, change management and communication.
• Strong computer skills / MS office and collaboration tools.

Analyzing/Problem-Solving Skills (15%):

• Have the ability to support the development of branch policy/program options, recommendations and solutions that encompass a range of considerations.
• Have the ability to support and coordinate the quantitative and qualitative research and analysis of Ministries needs and to support the development of programs, policies, training, processes, tools and standards.
• Have the ability to support /conduct research, analysis and assessment of program issues and impacts.
• Able to conduct risk assessments and provide effective advice and guidance to branch senior management to resolve issues.
• Have the ability to review results of performance monitoring, support the analysis and assessment of the effectiveness.

Technical Skills (5%):

• Knowledge of organizational change management principles.
• Knowledge of communication, training and stakeholder management approach and strategies.
• Knowledge of I&IT business concepts, principles and emerging trends in the I&IT business environment affecting IT client business needs across the Government.
• knowledge of program/policy theory, principles, business practices, methods and tools to provide project leadership for the design and development of program solutions.
• knowledge of I&IT portfolio, program and project methodologies and related frameworks, processes, practices, techniques and tools to plan and coordinate Government-wide business transformation initiatives dealing with I&IT portfolio, program and project delivery.