RQ00121 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Advantages
- Hybrid work model
- Opportunity to lead AI and automation initiatives in a large organization
- Engage with cross-functional teams, third-party vendors, and senior stakeholders
- Work within a structured OPS I&IT project management framework
- Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities

Responsibilities
- Provides project management on large-scale, complex, high-profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet client's business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS 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.
- Sources, selects, and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarifies roles and responsibilities and sets task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
- 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.
- 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 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.

Qualifications
Must Haves:
- 8+ years’ experience in delivering AI and automation solutions.
- 5+ years’ experience managing financials at a program level, including operating and capital expenses.
- 3+ years’ experience working with third party vendors in large scale organizations.

General Skills:
- 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.
- 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.

Desirable Skills:
- Knowledge and understanding of Project Management Institutes, Project Management Body of Knowledge, and 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 develop responses to successfully address conflict.
- Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provide updates as required, identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas.

Summary
This is a unique opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to lead AI and automation-driven projects in a high-impact public sector environment. The role demands strong leadership in project delivery, financial oversight, and vendor management. If you are experienced in enterprise-level AI implementations, adept at handling large budgets and cross-functional teams, and thrive in fast-paced, high-stakes environments, we encourage you to apply.

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