Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement – RQ11699
We are seeking a
Senior Project Manager/Leader with extensive experience managing large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk I&IT projects within enterprise or public-sector environments. The ideal candidate will have strong vendor management, Request for Bid (RFB) leadership, governance, executive communication, documentation, resource management, and data migration experience. The successful candidate will oversee project planning, budgeting, scheduling, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and project delivery while ensuring alignment with business requirements, Ontario Public Service (OPS) project management methodologies, standards, and frameworks.
Role Snapshot
- Job Title: RQ11699 – Project Manager/Leader – Senior
- Client: Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement
- Work Location: 222 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Work Arrangement: Onsite – 5 Days per Week
- Estimated Start Date: November 2, 2026
- Estimated End Date: April 30, 2027
- Business Days: 123.00
- Extension: Probable after the initial mandate
- Hours: 7.25 hours per day
- Security Level: No Clearance Required
Must Have
- Strong vendor management experience.
- Knowledge and experience leading and managing Requests for Bid (RFBs).
- Ability to oversee project governance and communication.
- Strong communication skills, as the position involves working with executives.
- Strong documentation experience.
- Experience managing resources for large-scale data migration activities.
Nice to Have
- Public-sector experience or Ontario Public Service (OPS) experience.
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, within scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies, and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.
- Provides project management to two concurrent projects to be completed and deployed in parallel, involving large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
- Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, within 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 to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
- Monitors and forecasts project costs and provides reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
- Develops and manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Promotes I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
- Directs project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards.
- Coordinates and monitors project processes and develops and communicates guidelines and procedures.
- Sources, selects, and onboards team members across various disciplines; clarifies roles and responsibilities; and establishes task, deliverable, and performance expectations for resources who are both OPS unionized employees and fee-for-service (FFS) consultants.
- Resolves resourcing and interpersonal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, and ensures knowledge is shared among team members so that 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 or confirmation of actuals.
- Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that appropriate mitigation 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 committees and stakeholder forums.
- Provides project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multiple stakeholders at senior executive levels.
- Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces supporting change during all project stages: concept, definition, planning, implementation, and close-out.
- Promotes OPS I&IT standards and project management best practices to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology, and appropriate use of I&IT resources.
Experience And Skill Set Requirements
- General Skills - 60%
- Demonstrates strong project management, communication, leadership, organization, planning, problem-solving, and risk assessment/management skills.
- Has extensive proven experience gathering, developing, and documenting business requirements and developing Business Cases.
- Demonstrates the ability to develop a Business Case that:
- Justifies undertaking a project, program, or portfolio.
- Describes the vision of the future.
- Demonstrates the value and benefits the project brings to the business.
- Evaluates the benefits, costs, and risks of alternative options.
- Provides a rationale for the preferred solution.
- Experience writing Business Cases using OPS methodology and templates is preferred.
- Has extensive experience presenting Business Cases to various executive committees and obtaining their approval.
- Demonstrates strong vendor management skills.
- Has extensive experience mapping business requirements to new system functionality, developing and executing test cases, and tracking and monitoring application defects.
- Is a motivated, envelope-pushing individual who can meet and exceed tight timelines.
- Demonstrates the ability to identify risks and gaps and provide solutions to mitigate them.
- Has experience leading organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
- Has experience developing and managing integrated project plans, schedules, deliverables, and scope.
- Has experience effectively managing project budgets, monitoring and forecasting project costs, and providing reporting and input to ensure targets are met.
- Technical Skills - 40%
- Preferred experience procuring and delivering cloud solutions and migrating data to cloud solutions.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), related regulations, and GO-ITS standards.
- Experience using MS DevOps and MS Teams project management software.
- Ability to make recommendations regarding the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources.
- Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipating and troubleshooting issues, providing ongoing expertise, resolving problems, and ensuring project effectiveness.
How to Apply
If you are interested and your profile matches the requirements, kindly send the following mandatory documents to
hrsmss@smsoftconsulting.com by
Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 10:00 AM EST.
Mandatory Documents
- Updated Resume in Word format (Mandatory)
- References (Mandatory)
- Expected Hourly Rate (Mandatory)
- Visa Status (Mandatory)
- LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)
Without the mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.
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