The development and population of an Immunization Repository is a cornerstone within the Ministry of Health's one immunization record (Immunization Repository)’ priority and is in line with Ontario’s desired immunization future state. This work will be one of the forthcoming projects in the Immunization Repository Optimization Program, one of the key components of the Public Health Digital Platform (under Clinical Care Service delivery). 

Must haves:

• Experience with and knowledge of Project Management concepts (e.g. project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, project and work package planning & scheduling, and quality management)
• Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects
• Collaboration, coordinating tasks, and ensuring that everybody works together effectively, this also involves conflict resolution 
• Minimum 8-10 years’ experience project managing electronic health-related projects, ideally with experience deploying clinical software systems 
• Demonstrated knowledge of Immunization workflows and associated business processes within pharmacies, hospitals and health records
• Past experience with jurisdictional public health programs (example: Immunizations) will be of significant benefit 
• Past experience working with the Panorama, will be of additional benefit
• Demonstrated experience managing projects or programs in Matrix organizational environments

Responsibilities:

The Senior Program Manager is responsible to oversee a portfolio of projects related to the development of an Immunization Repository, including management of issues, risks and service change requests to ensure successful and on-time deployment of workstreams. 

·      Forecast, monitor and report dedicated budgets for approved projects within the portfolio

·      Engage with vendors and stakeholders; handle client relationships to manage expectations

·      Facilitate execution of all applicable contractual agreements

·      Gather and develop requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.

·      Proactively identify potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed; identify potential conflicts between project and functional areas

·      Work with Clinical Repositories, Registries and Electronic Health Record Data Management teams, namely the Digital Health Drug Repository (DHDR) team within Ontario Health to provide stakeholder feedback, business requirements

·      Work closely with Architecture, Standards, Privacy and Security teams within Ontario Health to refine business requirements

·      Articulate and prioritize issues and risks and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers

·      Facilitate training of end-users and distribution of materials and job aids; develop documents and support materials as required

·      Use appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change in support of change during all stages of projects – concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out

·      Ensure pre go-live readiness: technical, configuration, conformance obligations and any workflow modifications

·      Develop project status reports, deployment reporting/tracking and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs for stakeholders within Ontario Health and the ministry

·      Update and monitor project document repository to ensure all documents are reviewed and maintained in the repository