Title: Senior Project Manager - Change and Improvement
Employee Working Location: Partially Virtual / Hybrid (Canada)
Employment Status: Temporary Full-Time (12 months)
In this role you will:- Define project objectives, scope, and execution roadmap in alignment with strategic goals.
- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, resource allocations, and budgets, managing dependencies and critical paths.
- Leads project execution or guides process in support of service lines or team accountable for program, ensuring deliverables meet scope, timeline, and financial targets.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks with proactive contingency planning and ensure timely issue resolution, escalating to leadership when necessary.
- Manage scope changes, assess impacts, and provide recommendations to leadership.
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment, issue resolution, and decision-making.
- Optimize resource allocation across multiple projects while balancing competing priorities.
- Track and manage project budgets, forecast costs, and implement cost-saving measures.
- Conduct post-mortems to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
- Provide leadership to project teams, offering guidance, coaching, and fostering a collaborative culture.
- Ensure compliance with governance frameworks, project management standards, and organizational policies.
- Continuously refine project management processes based on team and stakeholder feedback.
- Provide regular project updates, including status reports and financial tracking.
What we are looking for:- Qualifications include a minimum of 6-9 years experience and a 3-year college diploma or university degree in project management, business administration or similar and/or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Project management institute (PMI) certification or equivalent is required.
- Demonstrated experience in managing all phases of large-scale and complex projects.
- Demonstrated experience in defining and executing on change management plans to ensure user adoption and sustainment of project outcomes
- Advanced skills in project management tools and methodologies across the full project cycle.
- Work experience and knowledge relevant to the project area.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) and SharePoint and project management
information systems. - Ability to facilitate multiple stakeholders to achieve consensus, issue resolution, and decisions on complex issues with
conflicting perspectives. - Ability to identify complex problems, analyze interrelated factors, assess and mitigate risks, and develop solutions using
specialized skills. - Communication and influence skills to gather perspectives, understand needs, and present information to reach consensus, often in somewhat sensitive situations.
- Ability to identify and assess potential risks that may affect project outcomes by developing risk mitigation strategies and
contingency plans to minimize the impact of risks.
Working Conditions:- No unusual physical requirements.
- Requires significant attention to detail and concentration and ability to mentally process large amounts of information.
- The work pace is often unpredictable with significant time pressures.
- Ability to adapt to frequent and often urgent changes in priorities, and make decisions under pressure, work at an unpredictable pace.
- Work will be conducted in an office-like setting.
- May require travel to safe locations; limited exposure to adverse conditions.
- Work requires the ability to work to deadlines.
- Work requires interactions with dissatisfied clients and the resolution of complex client issues
