Project Manager/Leader

Job Details

Closing Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 10:30 a.m.
Location: 40 St. Clair Ave W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Organization: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
Department: Land & Resources Cluster
Start Date: 2026-04-20
End Date: 2027-03-31
Assignment Type: Onsite
Job Type: Contract
Requisition #: RQ10855

Project Description

To respond to the priorities of the Government of Ontario through the passage of the Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing Our Economy Act 2025, the resource may be partially assigned to Bill 5 related projects or initiatives on an as needed basis.

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”.

Responsibilities:

Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.

Ensures 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.

General Skills:

Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.

Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.

Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met

Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope

Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies

Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards

Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures

Sources, selects and on-boards 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.

Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.

Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.

Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.

Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.

Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.

Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums

Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.

Uses 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.

Promotes 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.

Desirable Skills:

Knowledge and understanding of Project Management’s Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge

Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices

Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards

Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources

Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness

Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict

Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

Knowledge Transfer Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Evaluation Criteria:

Agile Project Management Experience – 50%

Leadership, Facilitation and Communication Skills – 30%

• Demonstrated experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in complex multi-stakeholder environments

• Excellent verbal and written skills

• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight and/or aggressive project timelines

• Strong communication skills to present complex or technical details to business clients

• Strong negotiation, consensus building and ability to manage/facilitate difficult conversations with team members, clients and/or executives

Technical Skills – 20%

• 5+ years demonstrated experience managing technical resources and tasks involving solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, testing, platform upgrades/patching, maintenance/support, integration

• Understanding of key phases and tasks of a Siebel based project

• Understanding of Oracle products/services, with an emphasis on Siebel Public Sector

Advanced Microsoft Project, Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Visio

• Minimum 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager directly responsible for leading all aspects of large, complex Application Development initiatives

• Demonstrated hands on experience leading and managing agile projects, preferably following Scrum methodology

Advanced knowledge of project management principles, methods and techniques

• Demonstrated experience successfully managing OPS governance Cluster and Corporate governance approval processes such as project gating, architecture governance points, digital first assessment

• Experience managing privacy and security deliverables

• Advanced knowledge and experience with Agile development concepts and methodologies

• Experience leading technical teams

• Experience running scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives

• Demonstrated experience managing external and internal stakeholders and project interdependencies

• Strong technical and business aptitude

• Persistent attention to detail

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (clear & concise)

• Self-motivated leader with strong interpersonal skills

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and Visio, and Planview

• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight deadlines

• Project rescue/project triage experience is an asset

Previous government experience is an asset

Job Description

Responsibilities: Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives. Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a foc

Deliverables / Responsibilities

Evaluation Criteria:

Agile Project Management Experience – 50%

Leadership, Facilitation and Communication Skills – 30%

• Demonstrated experience leading project teams, facilitating interactions with clients and among the project team, especially in complex multi-stakeholder environments

• Excellent verbal and written skills

• Proven ability to handle multiple tasks and deliver within extremely tight and/or aggressive project timelines

• Strong communication skills to present complex or technical details to business clients

• Strong negotiation, consensus building and ability to manage/facilitate difficult conversations with team members, clients and/or executives

Technical Skills – 20%

• 5+ years demonstrated experience managing technical resources and tasks involving solution development (design, coding, configuration), data migration, testing, platform upgrades/patching, maintenance/support, integration

• Understanding of key phases and tasks of a Siebel based project

• Understanding of Oracle products/services, with an emphasis on Siebel Public Sector

Advanced Microsoft Project, Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Visio

Applications for this position will be accepted until Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 10:30 a.m..

If you meet the requirements for this role, please apply now.

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