Description

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