This is a contract position for a Project Manager Leader for our client who is in the Broader Public Sector. Work location will be Downtown Toronto or Kingston.

This is a Hybrid Role with 1 day in the office a week. This is a mandatory requirement of the role and is non negotiable outside of exceptional circumstances.

The Contract runs for one year.

Hours per day will be 7.25

Advantages
Good Compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.

Responsibilities
· Provide project management for various high-profile projects within the branch
· Ensure project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies pliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks
· Interact with senior staff within the ministry and with external partners and manage relationships
· Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and ministry funding requests.
· Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
· Identify team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities, and set task/ deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees, as well as Fee for Service (FFS) consultants
· Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members so that project objectives and deliverables are met
· plex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies
· Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
· Use ministry project management tools for recording and reporting project/program data
· Participate in team meetings
· Create/update Integrated Project Management Plan (IPP), adjust and update IPP as per change requests
· Perform reviews of schedule, variance analysis, adjust leads and lags, and revise schedule
· Manage and monitor project progress, critical path activities, and report on slippage
· Create overall project status and project progress reports for project executives and stakeholders
· Identify and manage issues, review issue status, and produce issue logs
· Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed
· Articulate and prioritize issues and risks at senior executive levels, and mends mitigation strategies for decision makers
· Review change requests, and prepare change requests report to be reviewed by Change Control Board, and adjust integrated project plan accordingly
· Prepare business transformation and adoption plans
· Create and provide knowledge transfer documentation as part of the knowledge transfer plan
· Establish and participate in mittee and stakeholder forums
· Provide project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
· Use appropriate strategies and actions to e resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects - concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out
· Promote OPS 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
· Adopt and adhere to OPS Unified I&IT Project Methodology, OPS/e-Health Ontario Gating process
· Be a demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Qualifications
10+ years knowledge and experience with designing, implementing and integrating web-based applications and/or cloud-based micro-services and solutions using full stack Java-based, and/or Microsoft .Net technologies. 7+ years of experience with Agile project management and development practices (Scrum Master certified preferred); managing the backlog, sprint planning, velocity tracking, Agile testing, retrospects, etc. Familiar with a wide range of methods, techniques and tools for business architecture such as, but not limited to: business functional modeling, service lifecycle modeling, business event modeling, business process mapping, business process re-engineering, demonstrated experience with JAD sessions and in working with stakeholders to identify their business needs, and translate them into concise plete requirements; creating and managing the requirements as User Stories, Epics, Story Maps, etc., Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices, experience with integrated change control process, experience with project management software such as MS Project, Planview, Jira, or Microsoft DevOps Azure, Experience with the implementation of web applications and services using cloud technology such as MS Azure, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker; and web application servers such as Solaris, Red Hat, IBM WAS 8.0+, experience in applying business process transformation and re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative, cost effective service delivery approaches, experience with Digital Health Standards, including HL7 FHIR.

Summary
If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!!!

Randstad Canada mitted to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we mitted to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our mitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the munity.

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