Resource will work remotely, though must be available for onsite meetings when required.
Onsite meetings include but are not limited to strategic, architectural, and technical discussions, meeting with team members, senior managers, directors, executive directors and business clients. Frequency of meeting could be up to 3-4 times per month.
Duties:
Responsible for the coordination and completion of IT projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.
• Compile project charters and business/project plans to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each applicable project, to ensure business objectives and data integrity are achieved.
• Manage project(s) that will document business requirements, design and deliver IT solutions that are compliant with and contribute to the Ministries’ enterprise architecture.
• Assist with the development of recommendations including providing details of resource requirements, dependencies, interdependencies, policy implications pertaining to internal/external influences and the methodology to be applied.
• Produce and package deliverables for presentation to various internal support teams, steering committee, and other project stakeholders.
• Manage multiple projects, project resources and project governance.
• Work with project sponsors to ensure that effective project communication exists through the duration of the project including escalation of risks as required.
• Take responsibility for ongoing client satisfaction – manage peer-level client relationships and overcome hurdles to ensure win-win solutions.
• Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan that clearly states the project’s objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits and budget.
• Work with project sponsors and the project management office to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.
• Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget and resources and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks.
• Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.
• Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks.
• Develop, as required, related requirements documentation.
• In collaboration with project sponsors, assess whether the project achieved stated outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement for future similar projects.
• Provide leadership and assistance to business and project teams that require change management and communication support.
• Work within the standards defined by the project management office and in the absence of standards work with the project management office to define new standards.
Equipment requirements:
• It is preferred if resource has their own equipment, though GoA will provide laptop/desktop if necessary.
Must Have
Education
Proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the
following:
• 4-yr University graduation-Telecommunications,
Electrical or Electronics Engineering degree or a
related discipline & 8-yr
broadband/telecommunications technical
experience;
OR
• 12-yr or more combined broadband-related
education & broadband technical experience in a
related discipline (telecom engineering, network
engineer, telecom field technician, communication
technician, etc.).
Work Experience:
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Skills |
Required Experience |
Candidate's Experience |
Description |
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Experience defining project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders. |
6 years |
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Experience in developing service maps for organizations with complex IT environments and infrastructure. |
8 years |
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Experience managing multiple projects concurrently. |
8 years |
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Experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex custom software application development project (where the software is developed in house for that specific organization) in an environment of similar size and complexity to the Government of |
6 years |
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Nice to Have
Work Experience
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Skills |
Required Experience |
Candidate's Experience |
Description |
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Experience conducting, facilitating and interpreting impact and risk assessments across multiple scenarios. |
5 years |
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Experience creating and managing project forecasts in Microsoft Project. |
4 years |
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Experience developing and maintaining positive relationships across the organization, from front line staff to executives. |
5 years |
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Experience in project coordination of government and vendor-wide information management / information technology initiatives |
2 years |
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Experience leading and facilitating meetings with stakeholders at all levels. |
8 years |
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Experience leading change management and communication planning. |
5 years |
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Experience leading custom software application development projects following a formal project life cycle methodology. |
6 years |
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Experience working in or for the public sector. |
3 years |
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Experience working on Enterprise Content |
3 years |
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Senior leadership experience working in the public sector (ideally Canada) with a sound knowledge of its stakeholders, business functions and informational requirements. |
3 years |
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