Project Manager​/Leader; RQMinistry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

NOTE

Extension/Amendment Attestation: Extension(s) only allowed using unused days/funds left on contract. No additional funds will be added beyond the maximum contract value and any extension options included in the original SOW.

Assignment Type: This position is listed as Onsite; the resource is expected to work 7.25 hours per calendar day between the standard working hours of 8:00-5:00 PM (excluding lunch breaks) every Monday to Friday inclusive at the identified OPS office location.

• Provide project management expertise for the planning, coordination, and execution of initiatives in support of the Community Administration Solutions Sun setting (CASS) initiative.
• Liaise with Ontario Health (OH), Ministry of Health, Ministry of Long-Term Care, Supply Ontario and the Health Services Cluster to identify and manage project dependencies in alignment with the CASS objectives.
• Facilitate multiple project work streams by following sound project management methodology, processes and procedures.
• For each workstream, proactively manage approved plans with stakeholder project teams, and work with relevant parties on risk mitigation strategies to ensure commitments and deliverables are completed as per approvals and stakeholder expectations.
• Develop, manage, and oversee an integrated project plan, project timelines, deliverables, and dependencies, ensuring each workstream adheres to their respective responsibilities and milestones.
• Establish and/or promote governance frameworks, meeting cadences, and reporting structures to facilitate decision‑making, change management, and accountability.
• Manage risks and issues escalated from various work streams, proactively seeking solutions and ensuring effective communication across all stakeholders.
• Provide strategic oversight and guidance to ensure alignment with the overall project goals.
• Drive decision‑making processes in governance forums, ensuring timely and effective resolution of escalated issues.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with senior stakeholders and project teams to facilitate collaboration and consensus building across multiple governmental bodies and health care service providers.
• Promote OPS 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 IT resources.
• Provide direction and advice to team members by establishing tasks, deliverables, and expectations, and ensure that knowledge is shared.
• Provide strategic and operational advice as needed regarding business, resourcing, and financial impacts.
• Prepare and present status reports and updates for any relevant steering committees, advisory panels, working groups, or similar governance bodies.
• Ensure project artefacts and deliverables reflect a superior understanding of:
  • Best practices in information technology project management including Agile and Waterfall methods.
  • Stakeholder needs.
  • Modern ERP solutions and their related technical and business architectures.

• Conduct and / or oversee waterfall and agile transitional technology projects with enterprise scale, particularly related to ERP and HR systems, working with diverse stakeholder groups across the Public and Broader Public Sector.
• Ensure technical dependencies between different work streams are identified and managed effectively, with efforts coordinated to align technical objectives across stakeholder groups.
• Collaborate with technical leads, architects, business and technical subject matter experts to ensure that proposed solutions can be implemented and meet required standards.
• Manage integration points between legacy systems and new solutions, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal downtime or service disruption.

• Governance Framework:
  Design and / or maintain the governance framework that details decision‑making authority, roles, and responsibilities.
• Project Plan:
  Develop and maintain the high‑level plans that outline milestones, key deliverables, dependencies, and resource leveling opportunities / constraints across the work streams.
• Risk, Action, Issue and…