Job Description
At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.
What Ontario Health offers:
Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:
Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day- Health care spending account
- Premium defined benefit pension plan
- 3 personal days and 2 float days annually
- Individual contributors start at 3 weeks’ vacation with 4 weeks at 2 yrs.
- Career development opportunities
- A collaborative values-based team culture
- A wellness program
- A hybrid working model
- Participation in
Communities of Inclusion
Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.Program Initiatives (PI) is part of the Population Health and Value-Based Health Systems portfolio at Ontario Health. Employing a collaborative and cross-programmatic approach, the PI team leads large-scale, complex, cross-programmatic projects to address quality, access, capacity and measurement gaps at the system level, often requiring significant change management. Foundational to the PI work is the development and implementation of new models of care initiatives that focus on identifying opportunities to optimize the use of health human resources, care settings, and technology to re-configure and streamline teams, processes, and structures.The Senior Project Manager is primarily responsible for leading and/or supporting the planning, design and implementation of one or more initiatives across Cancer Screening and/or Population Health and Value-Based Health Systems portfolio.The Senior Project Manager is focused on projects/program areas that are large and broad in scope, have more complex mandates/objectives, and/or are related to more than one area. The incumbent manages complex, multi-workstream projects to an acceptable level of risk by balancing scope, time, cost, and quality while maintaining a positive environment that promotes individual development and high-performance standards.Reporting to the Manager, Program Initiatives, the Senior Project Manager will work with various teams within Ontario Health, and with its collaborators, to ensure the timely, efficient, and quality delivery of program initiatives. Assignments include large-scale, complex, cross-programmatic, IT-focused projects often requiring significant change management across multiple portfolios within Ontario Health.Here is what you will be doing:- Ability to take broad concepts and turn them into achievable plans and manage the plans from requirements through design and implementation.
- Ability to integrate and manage several related plans and to support the integration of planning and delivery across a large and diverse delivery program.
- Scope of accountability covers all aspects of delivery including:
- Developing plans and estimates
- Risk and scope management
- Quality management
- Change management and change requests
- Executing, controlling, reporting, and closing
- Ensuring appropriate and timely change control and compliance with change processes
- Developing integrated project plans, ensuring accurate and appropriate inclusion of deliverables, milestones, resources, inter-project dependencies and progress reporting
- Adhering to and promoting Ontario Health policies and standards, including privacy, security, and architecture
- Ensuring compliance by any contractors and/or vendors
- Ensuring project resource controls are managed throughout the lifespan of the project
- Proactively managing risks, and systematically resolving or escalating issues in a timely manner
- Pulling and analyzing project-related data as well as compiling it into required reporting templates to disseminate to stakeholders
- Maintaining trackers related to resourcing, including conducting resourcing forecasts
- Scheduling meetings with stakeholders and any vendors, as well as curating related documentation in SharePoint
- Ensuring project reporting is timely, accurate, and appropriate for the various stakeholders
- Negotiating project team resources
- Following Ontario Health methodologies
Here is what you will need to be successful:Education and Experience- Completion of a university (bachelor) program involving acquisition of an advanced understanding of complex concepts and procedures in an area of work related to assigned duties such as bachelor's or master's degree, major in business administration, health administration, health informatics, information technology, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- 10 – 15 years’ experience in a role related to project planning and delivery, ideally in a healthcare setting experience with government level initiatives and projects an asset
- Strong working knowledge of the full Project Management LifeCycle (PMLC), PMBOK based
- Experience in managing delivery teams of various sizes and scope (may include staff, consultants, vendors)
- Experience with and knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Project Server
- Understanding of the primary care landscape in Ontario is an asset
- Experience with data, clinical, and IT-focused projects is desirable
Knowledge and Skills- Expert project management skills gained through progressively more responsible assignments
- Demonstrated experience managing across full solution development lifecycle
- Track record of successful project delivery
- Experience in managing delivery teams of various sizes and scope (may include staff, consultants, vendors)
- Demonstrated experience with managing project resourcing
- Experience with and knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, Microsoft Project, and MS Project Server
- Experience with project methodologies and standards (PMLC, SDLC, ITIL) and tools, e.g., SharePoint
- Experience with government level initiatives and projects an asset
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross functional project teams in a matrix environment
- Knowledge or experience of the health sector and/or government is an asset
- Technical knowledge/expertise is a requirement
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time, Fixed Term until July 2025Salary Band: 7Location: Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.Internal Application Deadline Date: July 24, 2023Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; Black and racialized; members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary; and disabled.We encourage applicants with accessibility needs to notify us if they have any accommodation needs in the application and/or interview process.Note: As part of the initial recruitment screening process, applicants must confirm that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If applicants are not fully vaccinated, they will be required to identify any accommodation needs pursuant to a protected ground under the Code. Applicants who identify an accommodation need will be required to provide supporting documentation with respect to their need for accommodation when requested by Ontario Health. If no such accommodation is identified, the applicant will not be eligible to proceed through the recruitment process.#OH-IND-DIG
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