Senior I&IT Project Manager(26-21497)

Russell Tobin & Associates is hiring on behalf of one of its esteemed clients.

Job ID: 26-21497

Job Title: Senior I&IT Project Manager

Location: Toronto, ON(Onsite)

Duration: 8 Months (With Possible Extension)

Client: Public Sector

Pay Rate: CAD $85-$90 per hour

Must Have

• Demonstration of strong project management experience with over 5 years of experience.
• Specific business/application knowledge related to applications used to calculate annual funding allocations.
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality, meeting, or exceeding expectations.
• Change-management principles and methodology expertise.
• Manage project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, and key deliverables,
• Supporting TB/MBC and SPP submission activities.
• Coordinate procurement activities
• Prepare polished executive-ready presentation materials.
• Oversee deliverables, project governance submission and tracking (through Planview), and the I&IT UPM gateway process.
• Prepare executive briefings and future RFB planning
• Provide senior project management leadership throughout the project lifecycle, leveraging a minimum of five years of project management experience to ensure successful project delivery.
• Lead the development, coordination, and tracking of TB/MBC, and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables, ensuring timelines and quality expectations are met.
• Strong Communication skills - able to conduct meetings and discussions with various stakeholders.

Roles and Responsibilities

Core Skills :-

• Demonstration of strong project management experience with over 5 years of experience.
• Specific business/application knowledge related to applications used to calculate annual funding allocations.
• Anticipates and resolves problems to ensure that the deliverables are completed within budget, to the highest quality, meeting or exceeding expectations.
• Change-management principles and methodology expertise.
• Manage project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, and key deliverables,
• Supporting TB/MBC and SPP submission activities.
• Coordinate procurement activities
• Prepare polished executive-ready presentation materials.
• Oversee deliverables, project governance submission and tracking (through Planview), and the I&IT UPM gateway process.
• Prepare executive briefings and future RFB planning

Other Project Management Skills :-

• Provide senior project management leadership throughout the project lifecycle, leveraging a minimum of five years of project management experience to ensure successful project delivery.
• Lead the development, coordination, and tracking of TB/MBC, and Strategic Planning Process (SPP) deliverables, ensuring timelines and quality expectations are met.
• Plan and coordinate, Executive Steering Committee, Director, and Working Group meetings, support the co-chairs, ensuring effective governance, create agenda and meeting notes, and track action items.
• Coordinate cross-ministry governance activities and maintain alignment among business partners, I&IT teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Provide regular project status reporting to senior leadership, including progress updates, key decisions, risks, issues, financial status, and recommendations.
• Foster collaboration across ministries and stakeholder groups to ensure project objectives, governance requirements, and business outcomes remain aligned throughout the discovery and implementation phases.
• Lead change management planning and implementation activities to support stakeholder readiness, adoption, and successful organizational transition.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities to ensure project objectives are delivered on time, within budget, and to the expected quality standards.
• Support the onboarding of the project into Planview, ensuring alignment with OPS enterprise-wide Project Portfolio Management (PPM) best practices for project governance, administration, tracking, and reporting.
• Provide ongoing support for the application of the I&IT Project Methodology across all project phases, including Feasibility, Project Approval, Definition, Planning, Implementation, and Close-Out. Ensure that the required governance, system development, and project management artefacts are completed and maintained for each phase to demonstrate compliance with organizational standards and project delivery requirements.
• Coordinate the alignment of system development activities with project management phases, including:
• Executing requirements, analysis, and design activities in support of the Definition and Planning phases.
• Aligning coding, testing, and deployment activities with the Implementation phase, where the solution is developed and delivered.
• Supporting post-implementation review activities during the Close-Out phase to capture lessons learned and validate the successful design, development, and deployment of the solution.

Public Sector:-

• Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size .
• Demonstrates experience designing and developing applications that comply with GO-ITS standards would be an asset
• Strong understanding of challenges and issues that ministry may have with respect to data

If this opportunity matches your experience and career goals, please share your most updated resume for consideration.

As a certified minority-owned business, Pride Global and its affiliates - including Russell Tobin, Pride Health, and Pride Now - are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs.

In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization.

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