Job Description

Description

• The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) is the province of Ontario\'s Energy Regulator. Our mandate includes protecting consumers\' interests and ensuring the viability of Ontario\'s natural gas and electricity sectors. To achieve this balance, we must ensure that the rules and regulations are applied fairly and consistently.
• There are several IT initiatives that are in progress as part of of 2022/23 IT plan and operational work. We would like to bring in a resource to assist with additional IT work that was not initially planned for this year. This includes the following initiatives:

• Business Continuity
• Business Systems Review
• Data Governance
• Productivity Assessment
• Registrar Improvements
• OESP Replacement
• Cyber Security Enhancements
• This resource will augment existing resources to ensure we can deliver on all IT initiatives within our timelines and with quality.

• 10+ years of project/portfolio management and technical manager experience
• MS Azure and O365
• Networking
• Database
• CRM/ERP
• Analytics and Reporting
• Excellent communication & collaboration skills
• College Diploma in a related field

• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients\xe2\x80\x99 business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

• Assist in the delivery of IT Services and related projects. The increased demand for IT project and support delivery over the next 6 months has led to this need.
• Under the direction of the Director, Information Technology, the incumbent is responsible for assisting in the delivery of IT Services and related projects, delivering services, and coordinating the activities related to the OEB\'s Information Technology team. Responsibilities also include planning project-related activities, developing improvements to processes, identifying projects at risk, and ensuring project plans and their deliverables are being met. This role will be required to coordinate time sensitive and confidential tasks to support the division.

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• 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.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as 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/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating 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 committee and stakeholder forums
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects \xe2\x80\x93 concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Artech Information Systems