Job Description

Title: Project Manager/Leader - Jira

Location: Toronto, ON Hybrid

Mode: Contract

Must Haves:

Technical - 15%

• Strong in leading scrum teams, familiar with Jira , Azure DevOps and related tools to lead daily standups
• Knowledge, understanding and experience of established Project Management Methodologies and Techniques related to all phases of an IT project life cycle
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices, including SDLC, Enterprise Architecture, PMI/PMBOK, UPM, ITIL, Agile/Waterfall
• Knowledge of technology trends, standards and processes and strategies to direct resolution of analysis and design challenges, define project scope and ensure project compliance and system integration and that critical business objectives are met

Project Management: - 70%

• Leads large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects across all phases of IT projects specifically in security
• Develops and manages project schedules and/or integrated plan, scope and other project deliverables
• Manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
• Promotes I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and control of the use of I&IT resources
• Supervises project and consultant staff
• Analyzes project environments to identify potential risk events and issues, articulating and prioritizing recommended mitigation strategies
• Creates business case and gets approval from all stakeholders
• Leads team for all governance and Treasury Board approvals

Leadership & Communication 15%

• Plan and leads all phases of complex enterprise-wide projects, scheduling activities, explaining procedures and monitoring the work of assigned technical resources
• Leads change management and leverages strategies and actions to overcome resistance
• Manages and builds effective client relationships through managing expectations, status updates
• Knowledge and experience of resource management, supervise and provide leadership/guidance to project teams
• Demonstrated consultation, negotiation and mediation skills to communicate project deliverables, resolve conflicts and develop and sustain effective working relationships
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels
• Verbal and written communication skills to design, develop and deliver presentations, prepare proposals and business cases to clients, stakeholders, and senior management
• Manages project budget and communicates to senior management on project status

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