RQ10785 - Project Control Officer - Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provide assistance to Managers, Project Managers and project team, in coordinating, planning, communicating, and executing the delivery of core project components.
  
• Manage project/work plans, tracking and analytics for the program/project execution.
  
• Responsible for creation and/or maintenance of management dashboards and executive summaries.
  
• Process Workflow Management from ticketing, and risk/issue management.
  

General Skills:

• Experience collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintaining project budgeting, progress reporting, action items, risk management updates, etc.
  
• Experience working alongside Managers and Project Managers to provide updates, escalate issues where required, identify risks, and lead/coordinate project document deliverables.
  
• Demonstrated experience working in a professional environment supporting multiple Project Managers and critical projects.
  
• Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs.
  
• Experience scheduling meetings.
  
• Experience with monitoring a project document repository and ensuring all documents are reviewed and maintained in the repository.
  
• Demonstrated understanding of project methodologies (e.g., Waterfall/AGILE) through-out the software development life cycle.
  

Desirable Skills:

• Demonstrated Project Management software skills and experience (e.g., MS Project, Planview, etc).
  
• Understanding of Project Management concepts (e.g., project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, planning, cost and quality management).
  
• Experience with SCRUM an asset.
  
• Experience with mainframe/legacy systems.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• 7 - 10 years of experience coordinating projects.
  
• Experience working alongside Managers and Project Managers to provide updates, escalate issues where required, identify risks, and lead/coordinate project document deliverables
  
• Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs.
  
• Demonstrated Project Management software skills and experience (e.g., MS Project, Planview, etc.).
  
• Understanding of Project Management concepts (e.g., project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, planning, cost and quality management).
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Core Skills and Experience:

• 7 - 10 years of experience coordinating projects.
  
• Experience collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintaining project budgeting, progress reporting, action items, risk management updates, etc.
  
• Experience working alongside Managers and Project Managers to provide updates, escalate issues where required, identify risks, and lead/coordinate project document deliverables.
  
• Demonstrated experience working in a professional environment supporting multiple Project Managers and critical projects for mainframe/legacy systems.
  
• Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs.
  
• Experience scheduling meetings.
  
• Experience facilitating meetings.
  
• Experience monitoring project document repository and ensuring all documents are reviewed and maintained in the repository.
  

Project Management Skills:

• Demonstrated Project Management software skills and experience (e.g., MS Project, Planview, etc.).
  
• Understanding of Project Management concepts (e.g., project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, planning, cost and quality management).
  

General skills:

• Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
  
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills.
  
• Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience.
  
• Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution.
  
• Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships.
  
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome.
  
• Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively.
  
• A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines.
  

Public Sector Experience:

• Experience working in the public sector on a mainframe/legacy system.