Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Contract Duration: November, 2026 – April, 2027

Work Location: On-site, 5 days per week

Office Locations: North York and Toronto, ON

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead two concurrent, large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk IT projects through planning, execution, implementation, and deployment. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring project deliverables align with business requirements and are completed on time, within scope and budget, while adhering to established project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and applicable government standards.

This role requires strong leadership, strategic planning, financial management, stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, and vendor management capabilities. The Senior Project Manager will work closely with project teams, business stakeholders, senior executives, and cross-functional partners to drive successful project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage two concurrent IT projects, ensuring coordinated planning, execution, and parallel deployment.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, deliverables, scope, and milestones.
• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements and develop comprehensive business cases.
• Prepare business cases outlining project justification, strategic vision, expected benefits, costs, risks, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
• Present business cases to executive committees and stakeholders to obtain required approvals.
• Develop and manage complex project budgets involving multiple funding sources and cross-organizational dependencies.
• Monitor project expenditures, forecast costs, reconcile actuals, and maintain strong financial controls and accountability.
• Identify, assess, and proactively mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery gaps.
• Provide project status reports, recommendations, and risk escalations to senior executives and governance committees.
• Establish and facilitate steering committees, stakeholder meetings, and project governance forums.
• Lead project teams, including internal employees and external consultants, by defining roles, responsibilities, performance expectations, and deliverables.
• Manage resource planning, team onboarding, resource conflicts, and knowledge sharing.
• Oversee vendor relationships and coordinate external service providers to support project delivery.
• Map business requirements to system functionality and coordinate testing activities, including test case development, execution, defect tracking, and resolution.
• Support organizational development, strategic planning, business planning, and funding request processes.
• Manage organizational change and stakeholder resistance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Promote project management best practices, quality standards, governance requirements, and compliance with established methodologies.
• Identify opportunities to improve project efficiency, cost-effectiveness, resource utilization, and delivery outcomes.
• Coordinate project monitoring activities, troubleshoot delivery challenges, and recommend appropriate solutions.

Required Qualifications and Skills

Project Management and Leadership

• Extensive experience managing large, complex, high-risk IT projects in enterprise or government environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and coordinate parallel implementations.
• Strong leadership, communication, organization, planning, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing and managing integrated project plans, schedules, scope, milestones, and deliverables.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results within tight timelines.
• Experience directing multidisciplinary project teams and managing internal resources and external consultants.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior executives and steering committees.

Business Case Development and Strategic Planning

• Extensive experience gathering, analyzing, developing, and documenting business requirements.
• Proven ability to prepare comprehensive business cases that establish project justification, strategic alignment, expected benefits, cost-benefit considerations, risks, and alternative solutions.
• Experience presenting business cases to executive committees and securing approvals.
• Experience with organizational strategy, business planning, organizational development, and funding requests.
• Familiarity with government project management methodologies and standardized business case templates is preferred.

Financial, Risk, and Vendor Management

• Demonstrated experience developing, managing, and forecasting complex project budgets.
• Ability to monitor costs, reconcile actual expenditures, prepare financial reports, and maintain fiscal accountability.
• Experience managing projects with multiple funding streams and cross-organizational dependencies.
• Strong risk assessment, issue management, mitigation planning, and escalation capabilities.
• Proven vendor management and resource management experience.
• Ability to identify delivery gaps, develop mitigation strategies, and implement corrective actions.

Technical and Delivery Skills

• Experience procuring, implementing, and delivering cloud-based solutions is preferred.
• Experience managing data migration initiatives to cloud environments is preferred.
• Knowledge of system functionality mapping, test case development and execution, application defect tracking, and quality assurance processes.
• Experience using Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams for project coordination and management.
• Ability to assess technology requirements and provide recommendations regarding software, hardware, and other IT resources.
• Knowledge of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), applicable accessibility regulations, and Government of Ontario IT Standards (GO-ITS) is preferred.
• Experience monitoring project performance, troubleshooting technical and delivery issues, and recommending solutions to improve project effectiveness.

Work Arrangement

This is a fully on-site contract position requiring attendance five days per week. The successful candidate must be able to work at both designated office locations in North York and Toronto.

Contract Period: November, 2026, to April, 2027.

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Note: Background checks needing to be completed for successfully hired candidates.

Note: Third parties need not apply