Program Manager – Senior
Government
Toronto – 2 days per week in office
3 month contract

Must Haves:

8 years' of experience with expert knowledge of SDLC Excellent communication & collaboration skills.
8 years' of experience directing stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building.
8 years' of experience supervising the development and communication of program related updates.
8 years' of experience directing, managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams including multiple Project Managers, each responsible for an element of the project and associated matrix team members.

Location: Hybrid – minimum 2 days onsite per week
Public Sector Experience: Beneficial

Responsibilities:

Provide program management leadership and expertise of large scale, highly complex, high profile and high-risk initiatives that may be multi-jurisdictional and/or enterprise-wide.
Ensure accountability for the programs centralized group of projects and their successful full life cycle delivery.
Ensure programs are delivered cost effectively and efficiently, and in compliance with organizations methodologies, standards and frameworks.

General Skills:

Demonstrated experience leading and overseeing program strategy development from inception through to project close-out and any required transition to operations, business planning, benefits identification and organization funding requests for I&IT programs.
Demonstrated experience understanding and articulating I&IT executive expectations and translating into program deliverables
Experience directing, managing and leading multidisciplinary project teams including multiple Project Managers, each responsible for an element of the project and associated matrix team members
Experience monitoring and managing the cost, risk, schedule, governance, technical performance, and program impact of each of the component projects
Experience providing a program/portfolio view of project inter-dependencies and external project dependencies, monitoring and reporting on exposure levels Exercises a range of leadership responsibilities including the role of coach and developer of talent
Experience developing complex budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross organization dependencies.
Experience analyzing program and organization's environments to identify potential risks and issues; articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to senior executives; recommends mitigation strategies to decision-makers to ensure projects are delivered on schedule
Uses significant innovation in the planning, analysis and execution of tasks
Experience directing stakeholder consultation, facilitation and consensus building.
Provides program, portfolio, and/or project reporting to multiple stakeholders
Experience leading strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change
Experience seeking new and unique business processes, technologies and products to benefit programs, portfolios and projects
Experience supervising the development and communication of program related updates including through media relations, social media etc.
Experience building positive relationships within the team and external parties
Experience contributing to improvements in life cycle based on lessons learned and past experience
Adheres to organization's standards and best practices for program
Experience scheduling and organizing meetings/events and maintaining agenda
Ensures technology is used correctly for all operations (video conferencing, presentations etc.).

Desirable Skills:

Expert knowledge of PMLC Excellent communication & collaboration skills