Our client seeks a Project Manager/Leader to be responsible for gathering and developing project requirements, maintaining detailed project schedules, managing deliverables, and ensuring adherence to government and ministry standards. This individual will promote best practices in Information & Technology (I&IT) project management, resolve conflicts, manage project budgets, identify risks, and communicate effectively with senior decision-makers. The Project Manager will coordinate and monitor project processes, ensuring timely delivery of project goals within defined time and cost constraints.
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Advantages
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Work on exciting public-sector projects with real-world impact.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Collaborative and inclusive team environment.
Responsibilities
- Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- 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.
- Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, gating, 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.
Qualifications
Project Management Skills
- Project Management experience (as appropriate to the specified experience and level) and use of Project Management software (as appropriate to the specified experience level).
- Knowledge of latest developments and leading practices in the project management industry and profession, (e.g. PMBOK®) and familiarity with best practices in other industries, sectors or jurisdictions related to project management methodologies.
- Experience in the development and implementation of project management processes, plans, and communication tools.
- Experience in creating portfolio plans, monitoring project performance against project plans and generating progress reports using earned value or similar techniques.
- Experience in Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies.
- An experienced individual with a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines and supporting cross-functional teams to ensure work on tasks/milestones remains within time and cost constraints.
- Knowledge of OPS Integrated Project Management Framework and Methodology.
Communication/Soft Skills
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated experience preparing and distributing project updates, progress reports to project stakeholder while managing expectations pertaining to scope and timeline constraints.
- Demonstrated experience communicating across many functional areas to actively engage project stakeholders and manage client expectations with diverse interests, technical and non- technical backgrounds using the appropriate level of political acuity and messaging for the audience.
- Strong discipline in resolving resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, ensures knowledge is shared among team members to achieve project objectives.
Stakeholder Management & Leadership
- Able to establish and manage stakeholder relationships.
- Able to communicate in business language and with technology expertise.
- Able to appropriately assign work packages to assigned resources and manage to ensure timely and quality delivery.
Summary
If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed 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 deep commitment 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 LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Our client seeks a Project Manager/Leader to be responsible for gathering and developing project requirements, maintaining detailed project schedules, managing deliverables, and ensuring adherence to government and ministry standards. This individual will promote best practices in Information & Technology (I&IT) project management, resolve conflicts, manage project budgets, identify risks, and communicate effectively with senior decision-makers. The Project Manager will coordinate and monitor project processes, ensuring timely delivery of project goals within defined time and cost constraints.
Advantages
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Work on exciting public-sector projects with real-world impact.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Collaborative and inclusive team environment.
Responsibilities
- Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
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- 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.
- Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
- Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, gating, 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.
Qualifications
Project Management Skills
- Project Management experience (as appropriate to the specified experience and level) and use of Project Management software (as appropriate to the specified experience level).
- Knowledge of latest developments and leading practices in the project management industry and profession, (e.g. PMBOK®) and familiarity with best practices in other industries, sectors or jurisdictions related to project management methodologies.
- Experience in the development and implementation of project management processes, plans, and communication tools.
- Experience in creating portfolio plans, monitoring project performance against project plans and generating progress reports using earned value or similar techniques.
- Experience in Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies.
- An experienced individual with a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines and supporting cross-functional teams to ensure work on tasks/milestones remains within time and cost constraints.
- Knowledge of OPS Integrated Project Management Framework and Methodology.
Communication/Soft Skills
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated experience preparing and distributing project updates, progress reports to project stakeholder while managing expectations pertaining to scope and timeline constraints.
- Demonstrated experience communicating across many functional areas to actively engage project stakeholders and manage client expectations with diverse interests, technical and non- technical backgrounds using the appropriate level of political acuity and messaging for the audience.
- Strong discipline in resolving resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, ensures knowledge is shared among team members to achieve project objectives.
Stakeholder Management & Leadership
- Able to establish and manage stakeholder relationships.
- Able to communicate in business language and with technology expertise.
- Able to appropriately assign work packages to assigned resources and manage to ensure timely and quality delivery.
Summary
If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed 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 deep commitment 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 LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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