RQ00693 - Project Manager - Intermediate

Maarut•Toronto, ON

About The Position

The Project Manager will provide project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for the Agency. The Project Manager will keep timelines moving, follow up on issues and dependencies, bring the right people together when needed, and help make sure work is progressing as expected.

Requirements

Strong stakeholder management, planning and resource management skills
Proven ability to manage competing priorities, organize inputs from multiple stakeholders, and maintain high-quality documentation.
Detail-oriented with excellent organizational and time management skills, and the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and competing deadlines.
Collaboration, coordinating tasks, and ensuring that everybody works together effectively, this also involves conflict resolution
Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out
Demonstrated ability to develop successful relationship and build agreement with high-level internal and external stakeholders
Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating executive expectations and translating into program deliverables
Strong working knowledge of the Project Management Institute's framework
Proficient in MS Office
Experience working alongside project and program managers in a highly complex environment with internal and external stakeholders, vendors and partners; while providing updates, escalating where required, identifying risks, and managing project document deliverables.
Experience collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintain progress reporting, action items, risk management updates, etc.
Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs.

Nice To Haves

Experience with managing projects in Ontario’s healthcare sector.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
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
A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Responsibilities

Work with different partners and subject matter experts from different organizational units (clinical, business, enterprise, and technical).
Gain understanding of stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
Develop and implement change management strategies and associated communications.
Develop charters to guide the work.
Prepare summaries for leadership, including status, risks, cadence, upcoming touchpoints.
Develop professional, consistent communication artifacts, including: project updates, change notices, engagement summaries, meeting minutes & action logs.
Support preparation of materials for governance, leadership updates, workshops, and consultations.
Establish and maintain excellent working relationships and effective communication with the sponsor(s), internal and external partners, and project team members.
Organize and lead project meetings.
Ensure effective project change control.
Track action items and ensure timely follow-up.
Proactively identify and manage risks, and systematically resolve or escalate known issues in order that a clear output can be identified and achieved.