Responsibilities:

• Provide project management for various high-profile projects within the branch
• Ensure 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 
• Interact with senior staff within the ministry and with external partners and manage relationships 
• Lead organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and ministry funding requests. 
• Gather and develop requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan 
• Identify 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 
• Resolve resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiate changes to resourcing, ensure knowledge is shared among team members so that project objectives and deliverables are met 
• Develop complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross-ministry dependencies 
• Effectively manage large project budgets and ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals 
• Use ministry project management tools for recording and reporting project/program data 
• Participate in team meetings 
• Create/update Integrated Project Management Plan (IPP), adjust and update IPP as per change requests 
• Perform reviews of schedule, variance analysis, adjust leads and lags, and revise schedule 
• Manage and monitor project progress, critical path activities, and report on slippage 
• Create overall project status and project progress reports for project executives and stakeholders 
• Identify and manage issues, review issue status, and produce issue logs 
• Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed 
• Articulate and prioritize issues and risks at senior executive levels, and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers 
• Review change requests, and prepare change requests report to be reviewed by Change Control Board, and adjust integrated project plan accordingly 
• Prepare business transformation and adoption plans 
• Create and provide knowledge transfer documentation as part of the knowledge transfer plan 
• Establish and participate in steering committee and stakeholder forums 
• Provide project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels 
• Use 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 
• Promote 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 
• Adopt and adhere to OPS Unified I&IT Project Methodology, OPS/e-Health Ontario Gating process 
• Be a demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines. 

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