Project Manager

Description

Our Client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to provide a range of capabilities to advise and assist through the analysis of a variety of operational matters including business process assessments, design, change management, documentation, and deployment. The analysis may range from generating explicit descriptions of individual business processes as currently performed, to designing desired future business processes, service delivery changes and requirements.

Skills

• PMP, Project Charters, Risk Analyst/Management, Feasibility Studies

Type

• Contract

Experience Required/Mandatory Skills

• MBA or graduate degree in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Project Management certification or designation (e.g. CAPM, PgMP, PMP, etc.) preferred.
• More than ten (10) years on IT projects; and More than five (5) years as a Senior Project Manager.
• Preparing project charters, master project plans, providing risk analysis and risk management;
• Coordinating municipal resources and contractors to achieve project objectives;
• Making effective use of technology (e.g. Microsoft Project, Powerpoint, Teams, etc.) to support efficient management and communications within a project team;
• Communicating with a cross discipline team including complex stakeholder groups and project sponsors with competing interests;
• Presenting project status reports, dashboards, issue log, risk register to project and business leadership;
• Delivering medium complexity projects in a public sector environment;
• Developing feasibility studies, business cases, and treasury board submissions;
• Managing sensitive issues, including impacts to all of the municipality, private sector and citizens;
• Leading stakeholders from multiple groups with diverse interest to consensus on project scope, objectives and responsibilities in collaboration with municipal management and staff;
• Developing strategic communications, engagement and training plans to ensure end
• user and stakeholder involvement;
• Managing linkages to concurrent municipal projects;
• Managing change requests/budget requests including: Cost estimates; Schedules; Resources; Deliverables; and Inter-dependencies on other tasks/sub-projects/linked projects.
• Delivering large, complex projects (greater than $1M in value, greater than 1 year in duration) in a public sector environment;
• Reporting project status at a senior executive level (e.g. Assistant Deputy Minister/Deputy Minister level);
• Interacting at the executive levels of government including briefing Ministers, Treasury Board staff, Office of the Chief Information Officer, and representatives of other central agencies of government;
• Portfolio management (e.g. strategic alignment and prioritization) including effective portfolio management controls and reporting;

Nice To Have Skills

• Project Management certification or designation (e.g. CAPM, PgMP, PMP, etc.) preferred.

Location

• Saanich

Work Environment

• 12-18 months with possibility for extension

Hourly Rate

• Negotiable