Project Manager​/Leader Senior

Project Overview

Ontario's Public Safety Radio Network (PSRN) is one of the largest and most complex public safety radio networks in North America, covering approximately 750,000 km2 and serving more than 38,000 front-line and emergency responders. The Government Mobile Communications branch (GMCB) under the Ministry of Solicitor General has undertaken an ambitious project to upgrade and modernize the PSRN system, making it more compatible with neighbouring networks.

A supplier has been selected to provide equipment and services. GMCB is executing this large project in collaboration with other ministries and partners. Project execution is underway across work streams including business analysis, vendor coordination, stakeholder management, training, organizational change management, project governance, radio resources acquisition and deployment, network design and remediation, radio site readiness, planning and execution of transition, and service management.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, oversee, track, and update large complex projects, including the schedule, risks, and deliverables.
• Lead executive governance, reporting, and decision-support activities by synthesizing complex technical, operational, and stakeholder information into materials suitable for senior government decision-makers.
• Provide strategic leadership and advisory services to support the successful delivery of the Public Safety Radio Network (PSRN) program, engagement, risk management, issue resolution, and cross-project coordination.
• Work with project team to ensure successful delivery for the Public Safety Radio Network (PSRN) project.
• Develop executive project status briefings, brief senior management and develop new revised content with short turnaround times with a quality focus.
• Working with the GMCB managers and team representatives and in partnership with other project managers to develop integrated project reporting.
• Develop project or detailed plans that identify resource, time, and budgetary needs.
• Overall management of the monthly governance cycle: collection; editing; development of new materials.
• Synthesize project reporting status and progress across committees, senior management input and overall strategy.
• Managing deliverables and dependencies that cross multiple in-flight projects.
• Supporting the PSRN Program by proactively identifying, communicating, and managing multi-faceted risks and issues to deliver superior customer service experience and to support efficient and effective project delivery.
• Interacting directly with project team members and leadership to develop and maintain strong ongoing relationships to ascertain clear mitigation strategies and to provide further details on project issues/activities.
• Developing detailed content and presenting ministry-specific dashboards, reports, and other project management collateral for OPS Executive committee material and briefing presentations.
• Proactively communicate risks and issues pertaining to the PSRN projects, describing mitigation options, and preparing/researching these through PSRN governance committees.
• Work with senior project managers to describe project implementation plans that have clear target dates and monitor progress against them.
• Develop material to describe the financial management of project as necessary or if needed.
• Developing briefing materials to describe complex network implementation and or transition and migration strategies with cross stream dependencies including vendor activities.
• Developing and providing communication material on implementing network implementation and or transition plans.
• Managing large-scale, complex, development of monthly PSRN governance committee material, attendance and developing/maintaining related terms of reference.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Must be able to work 3 days onsite per week
• At least 5 years of experience in a senior leadership role that has extensive experience in project/program management in large scale, multiyear, complex technology projects.
• In-depth knowledge of, and direct proven experience applying all phases (concept, definition, planning, implementation, and closeout) of advanced project management concepts, practices, and procedures to a large-scale, complex, high-value projects in order to meet critical timelines.
• Communication skills that support the translation of technical information to support delivery of executive presentations, briefing notes, and synthesis of key major project and operational issues.
• Demonstrated enhanced communication skills that support the translation of technical information to support delivery of executive presentations, briefing notes, and synthesis of key major project and operational issues.
• Ability to proactively identify and communicate risks, issues, or problems, gather relevant information, perform analysis, develop options and recommendations; and build reports to support decision-making on project scope, schedule, cost, etc.
• Demonstrated program management experience…