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Hybrid work position - 3 days a week in any LRC location Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Guelph, Toronto, Peterborough.

Advantages
The opportunity to work on high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives

Responsibilities
- Provides Operational and 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.
- Manage platform technology team(s) to ensure operational status for UAT and Prod infrastructure environments, technology evergreening initiatives (i.e Oracle, migration to Cloud)
-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.
- 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.

Qualifications
- Expertise in applying project management theory, methodologies and techniques to provide overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of projects ensuring consistency with enterprise mandate, objectives and strategies.
- Knowledge of issues management, communication and change management principles to assist clients and stakeholders with change management activities.
- Leadership skills to set direction and manage projects, activities and team members throughout the different project phases towards successful completion.
- Well developed organization and planning skills to manage a number of complex and concurrent issues while continuing to deliver results.
- Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate project vision, facilitate discussions/negotiations, prepare written briefings, presentations and other project related materials.
- 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
- Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate project vision, facilitate discussions/negotiations, prepare written briefings, presentations and other project related materials.
- Negotiation skills to influence others and find collaborative solutions to complex high-profile issues.
- Ability to build relationships to oversee cross-organizational consultation processes that involve internal and external stakeholders and consultation and collaboration skills to cultivate effective relationships, influence change and bring initiatives to successful conclusion.
- Emotionally intelligent communicator who can engage in tough conversations while remaining calm and unbiased.
- Strong analytical and conceptualization skills to deliver , combined with proven skills and experience in change management, project management and issues management.
- Research and problem solving skills to scan the organizational environment, analyze data, identify and assess emerging trends and develop options to strategically manage complex issues and files.
- Ability to think holistically and horizontally about business problems and opportunities and ensure strategic alignment between cross-functional programs/activities.
- Leadership skills to set direction and manage projects, activities and team members throughout the different project phases towards successful completion.
- Well developed organization and planning skills to manage a number of complex and concurrent issues while continuing to deliver results.
- Knowledge of project management and in-depth knowledge of task estimation, scheduling and control to prepare project plans and provide guidance.
- Political acuity to deal with sensitive situations, to work strategically with government stakeholders and develop appropriate responses to ensure projects reflect the overall enterprise objectives and priorities.

Summary
Are you someone who can lead with vision and impact?
Join our team and have the incredible opportunity to work on high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives


We thank all applicants for taking the time out to apply. Someone from our team will reach out to you if you have moved forward in the recruitment process.


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