The Project Manager will support in the successful delivery of Ontario Health projects, ensuring strong project communication, documentation and reporting throughout the project lifecycle projects.
Must haves:
- Minimum 8-10 years' project management experience working in electronic health-related projects in Agile environment.
- Experience working with Microsoft products, with a preference for candidates that have experience with Microsoft based cloud tools.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills
- Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects
- Experience working with Business, Technical, Architecture, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders
- Knowledge of Healthcare Information Systems used throughout the province of Ontario
- Experience with working on a digital product development, health system business implementation and deployment projects
- Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)
General Skills:
- 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
- Ability to promote I&IT project 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
- 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
- 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 Ontario Health standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of 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 Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
- 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
Requirements
Deliverables include, but are not limited to:
- Provide project management on large scale, complex projects for Ontario Health (OH) initiatives
- Ensure project deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with Ontario Health project management methodologies and frameworks
Evaluation Criteria:
- Minimum 8-10 years' project management experience working in preferably with digital health-related projects. : 25 points
- Minimum 5 years project management experience in complex healthcare solutions involving Business, Technical, Architecture, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders : 35 points
- Proven ability to lead and liaise with senior leadership on project deliverables and timelines, coordinate risks and issues, and communications : 20 points
- Project Management Certification (i.e. PMP) : 10 points
- Familiarity with legislation applicable to healthcare organizations such as PHIPA : 10 points
- Minimum 8-10 years' project management experience working in electronic health-related projects in Agile environment.
- Minimum 8-10 years' Experience with working on a digital product development, health system business implementation and deployment projects
- Minimum 8-10 years' Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)