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Job Location: Toronto (Hybrid)
Job Duration: Long-Term Contract
Job Description
Delivery focused project manager who gathers and develops business and project requirements for the NG9-1-1 solution in order to facilitate procurement and implement solution.
Delivering extensive knowledge of the current and emerging 9-1-1 technologies to meet needs identified by the PSAP user community.
Leverage existing CRTC ESWG expertise to develop a plan for Ministry response to NG9-1-1.
Demonstrated experience directing project teams (NG-911 technologies SMEs) to ensure project deliverables meet business needs and standards.
Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, gating, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums. Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
MUST HAVES:
Experience facilitating diverse system stakeholders in highly integrated and complex solution delivery environments, providing leadership and advice to establish common business objectives and solution roadmaps, while developing business standards and realizing system automation.
Demonstrated experience leading projects that involve system vendor management, issues management, and system integration across multiple vendor solutions.
Understanding proposed NG9-1-1 solution requirements and business standards, experience with the development of technical requirements and specifications for procuring and implementing Canadian Compliant-standards-based technology to support NG9-1-1 platform and systems.
Experience in details of the methods identification and assessment of business policy implications and the development of mitigation strategies and contingency plans as it related Canadian NG911 implementation.
Selection Criteria
Experience and Skill Set RequirementsTechnical Experience
Experience facilitating diverse system stakeholders in highly integrated and complex solution delivery environments, providing leadership and advice to establish common business objectives and solution roadmaps, while developing business standards and realizing system automation.
Demonstrated experience leading projects that involve system vendor management, issues management, and system integration across multiple vendor solutions.
Experience identifying and assessing technical project risks, mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
Knowledge of system and operational standards applied in Public Safety Answering Points (PSASPs) in Ontario
Understanding proposed NG9-1-1 solution requirements and business standards, experience with the development of technical requirements and specifications for procuring and implementing Canadian Compliant-standards-based technology to support NG9-1-1 platform and systems.
Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Interoperability requirements and as directed by, and in the application of, the Canadian NENA i3 principles and Interoperability Continuum.
o Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the Emergency Incident Data Object (EIDO) requirement and its application among PSAPs.
Experience, knowledge, and understanding of current and emerging 9-1-1 technologies to fit needs identified by the PSAP user community, including, but not limited to a wide range of Telecommunication technologies for voice, video, text and data, including, but not limited to: Transmission infrastructure, Internet Protocol (IP) based communication related networks, PBX system integration and interconnection technique, and storage
Familiarity and experience in:
o Centralized Standards-Compliant Canadian NG911 Infrastructure
o Call Handling System and Equipment with ability to incorporate new applications such as text and video
o ESInet and Canadian NG9-1-1Core Services
o PSAP connectivity to the network legacy and IP systems
o Canadian NG9-1-1 L& R
Canadian NG9-1-1 Geographic Information System (GIS) such as GIS-based routing and migration paths
30%
Policy/Business Skills
Experience in details of the methods identification and assessment of business policy implications and the development of mitigation strategies and contingency plans as it related Canadian NG911 implementation.
Experience developing business strategic plans and business roadmaps to enable system planning, business case development and system procurements.
Experience in details of the methods identification and assessment of operational impacts and the development of strategies and contingency plans as it related Canadian NG911 implementation.
Informed ministry best practices/industry standards in order to have an informed implementation of NG911
Experience with 911 sector with regard to policy and operational changes required for NG911
15%
Project Management Skills
Experience with gathering and developing requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
Project Management experience (as appropriate to the specified experience and level) and use of Project Management software (as appropriate to the specified experience level).
Experience engaging and managing vendor relationships.
Experience in the development and implementation of project management processes, plans, and communication tools.
An experienced individual with a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines and supporting cross-functional teams to ensure work on tasks/milestones remains within time and cost constraints.
30%
Communication/Soft Skills
Experience with working with complex multi faceted projects with diverse working groups
Demonstrated experience preparing and distributing project updates, progress reports to project stakeholder while managing expectations pertaining to scope and timeline constraints.
Demonstrated experience communicating across many functional areas (matrix organization) to actively engage project stakeholders, including vendors, and manage client expectations with diverse interests, technical and non- technical backgrounds using the appropriate level of political acuity and messaging for the audience
Demonstrated experience identifying a mix of skilled technical resources necessary to complete project assignments/deliverables, including clarifying roles and responsibilities
25%
