The opportunity:Associated Engineering, a proudly Canadian, Employee-owned Company is seeking an experienced and dedicated Manager, Project Management Office - Digital Services Plamming and Governance to join our team in our Edmonton office. In this role you will be responsible for Digital Services project management office and for providing disciplined portfolio, program, project, business analysis, Organizational Change Management (OCM), training, resource, governance, and delivery oversight across AE technology investments.
What you'll do:- Apply the PMO mandate, services, roles, delivery lifecycle, governance forums, controls, templates, tools, and repositories established by the Director.
- Provide functional leadership, coaching, resource coordination, and performance oversight for Project Managers, Business Analysts, the OCM Lead, the IT Trainer, contractors, and other PMO resources.
- Apply the Director's standards and quality expectations while accountable practitioners and delivery resources perform the detailed project, OCM, and training work.
- Coordinate intake items. Contributes to assessment, prioritization, sequencing, dependency management, resource planning, and portfolio reporting for Digital Services initiatives.
- Maintain an integrated view of approved, proposed, active, paused, and closing initiatives, including outcomes, investment, capacity, milestones, risk, dependencies, and delivery confidence.
- Apply and maintain practical Organizational Change Management and training frameworks, methods, templates, tools, quality expectations, governance, role accountabilities, and reporting for Digital Services initiatives.
- Ensure the OCM Lead and the IT Trainer assess stakeholder impacts, change complexity, readiness, adoption risks, communication needs, learning needs, business capacity, and resistance and incorporate proportionate plans, resources, and deliverables.
- Apply proportionate project and program governance, stage gates, health criteria, financial controls, reporting standards, assurance reviews, and escalation practices.
- Review project health, forecasts, risks, issues, changes, dependencies, benefits, vendor performance, and readiness and ensures corrective action is initiated.
- Manage project budgets for purchase commitments, contractor costs, and internal resources. Oversees forecasts, capital and operating expenditures, and financial reporting in partnership with Finance and project leaders. Manages invoices for projects the Manager personally manages.
- Define and continually improve practical project, program, portfolio, business analysis, Organizational Change Management, training, estimation, risk, reporting, benefits, adoption, and lessons-learned practices.
- Promote consistent use of delivery tools, data definitions, document repositories, dashboards, and portfolio information.
Does this sound like you?- Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- An equivalent combination of education, extensive technology delivery experience, and leadership experience will be considered.
- Project Management Professional certification is strongly preferred. Program, portfolio, Agi
- 10+ years of progressive project, program, portfolio, or technology delivery experience, including at least 3 years in a people leadership or PMO leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing a PMO, portfolio governance, intake and prioritization, project assurance, executive reporting, and delivery standards.
- Experience overseeing a diverse portfolio of enterprise application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, digital workplace, and technology transformation initiatives.
- Experience managing portfolio budgets, forecasts, resource capacity, vendors, contractors, procurement, and commercial agreements.
- Demonstrated experience leading and coaching project managers, business analysts, Organizational Change Management practitioners, training professionals, vendors, and delivery partners; delegating detailed execution; assuring quality; leading complex programs; and recovering challenged projects.
- Experience establishing and overseeing Organizational Change Management and training capabilities delivered by dedicated practitioners, business resources, vendors, or project teams, including stakeholder engagement, change-impact assessment, communications, readiness, learning-needs analysis, curriculum planning, training delivery, adoption, reinforcement, and sustainment.
- Experience integrating OCM and training activities into project plans, governance, testing, cutover, operational readiness, service transition, and benefits realization. Experience defining and reporting change readiness, training effectiveness, adoption, proficiency, resistance, and reinforcement measures.
- Experience presenting to executives, sponsors, steering committees, and governance bodies in a project-based professional services, engineering, consulting, or distributed organization is preferred.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
