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RQ10253 - Project Manager/Leader - Intermediate
full-timeToronto

Summary

Location

Toronto

Type

full-time

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About this role

Responsibilities:

  • Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
  • Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
  • Contributes to drafting and maintaining governance frameworks, playbooks, and directives.
  • Facilitates collaboration between ministries, GovTechON, and executive committees for endorsement and lifecycle governance.

 

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
  • 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 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.
  • 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 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.
  • Awareness / knowledge of emerging I&IT trends and directions
  • Ability to adapt to changing trends, leverage emerging tools and methodologies, and effectively lead projects to success in today’s dynamic IT landscape
  • Skilled in cross-functional coordination involving policy, risk, technology, and data governance teams.
  • Expertise in developing governance artifacts (e.g., AI Playbook, endorsement workbooks) and guiding teams through compliance checkpoints.
  • Strong understanding of AI ethics, transparency, and accountability principles within public sector contexts.

 

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
  • Experience in AI lifecycle governance, including endorsement processes, sustainment planning, and disclosure requirements.


Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Have:

  • Assess the project manager’s ability to prepare and edit clear, compelling presentations, briefing notes, formal meeting minutes/action items, and responses to queries/issues.
  • Ability to clearly communicate governance requirements, risk assessment outcomes, and compliance checkpoints to diverse stakeholders, including executives and technical teams.
  • Evaluate their ability to document fast-moving executive conversations with limited context and seek alternate sources of information to ensure understanding.
  • Ability to interpret and apply governance directives, identify compliance gaps, and recommend mitigation strategies for risks.
  • Familiarity with AI technologies / governance is a plus.
  • Knowledge of OPS Responsible AI Directive, AI lifecycle governance processes, and endorsement frameworks.

 

Skill Set Requirements:

Communication and Interpersonal Skills:

  • Assess the project manager’s ability to prepare and edit clear, compelling presentations, briefing notes, formal meeting minutes/action items, and responses to queries/issues.
  • Consider their political acuity and tact when dealing with colleagues, senior executives, and project teams.
  • Evaluate demonstrated relationship management skills to build and maintain relationships across the organization.
  • Ability to clearly communicate governance requirements, risk assessment outcomes, and compliance checkpoints to diverse stakeholders, including executives and technical teams.
  • Demonstrated skill in facilitating cross-ministry collaboration for endorsement and lifecycle governance.

 

Analytical/Problem-Solving Skills:

  • Evaluate their ability to ensure stakeholders receive accurate, comprehensive, and meaningful information in a timely manner.
  • Evaluate their ability to document fast-moving executive conversations with limited context and seek alternate sources of information to ensure understanding.
  • Consider their comfort in coordinating various projects and competing priorities to meet deadlines.
  • Assess their self-motivation, professionalism, diplomacy, and capability to manage workload in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  • Ability to interpret and apply governance directives, identify compliance gaps, and recommend mitigation strategies for risks.

 

Technical Skills:

  • Broad IT knowledge and experience
  • Proficiency in word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software, and document repositories such as SharePoint
  • Familiarity with Agile methodology and tools (e.g., Planner, kanban boards) is a plus.
  • Familiarity with AI technologies / governance is a plus.
  • Knowledge of OPS Responsible AI Directive, AI lifecycle governance processes, and endorsement frameworks.


Other facts

Tech stack
Project Management,Governance Frameworks,Collaboration,Budget Management,Risk Management,Stakeholder Engagement,Communication,Analytical Skills,Technical Skills,AI Governance,Interpersonal Skills,Conflict Resolution,Agile Methodology,Organizational Development,Compliance,Emerging Technologies

About Maarut Inc

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Finding IT talent is a significant challenge in today’s business landscape. Maarut Inc has the unique methodology for identifying, acquiring and retaining top IT resources across various areas of expertise. We help companies hire better candidate, and make meaningful relationships between the job seeker and the employers.

Engaging the right people with the right skills and experience can make or break your company. As an employment agency representing many talented skilled professionals who can pinch in immediate on projects, fill team gaps and support growth, we quickly deliver the exact talent you require for your needs.

Our goal is to craft flexible, targeted solutions as per your staffing needs by matching the right people, to the right job, at the right time.
Our recruiters are savvy insiders, having worked in the industries for which they recruit. They’ve walked in your shoes, so they understand the exciting, satisfying and challenging aspects of each job. They understand what makes IT placement unique, team dynamics and how each company and candidate are special.

Our recruitment team is specialized in identifying the top technical consultants with skill sets such as:

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Business Intelligence/Reporting
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Project Management
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What you'll do

  • The Project Manager/Leader is responsible for managing large-scale, complex projects, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements while adhering to budget and timelines. They facilitate collaboration among various stakeholders and contribute to governance frameworks.

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