Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Victoria, BC- Hybrid
Duration: + months
Education:
- Post-secondary degree in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Project Management certification or designation (, P R I N C E , PgMP, PMP, etc.) preferred.
Experience:
- Proven experience with large-scale Workforce Management System rollouts.
- Municipal government experience is preferred.
- More than ten () years on IT projects; and
- More than five () years as a Senior Project Manager.
- Skills and Expertise: Demonstrated proficiency and experience in the following areas:
- Senior Project Manager experience in large scale SaaS HR and/or OHS/Disability Management projects. Similar large scale project experience may be acceptable; however, there is a strong preference for HR and/or OHS/Disability Management experience.
- Preparing project charters, master project plans, providing risk analysis and risk management.
- Managing scope by establishing clear project boundaries. Using change control to communicate and ensure understanding of any necessary changes.
- Extensive experience with budgeting/cost control, resource management, scheduling (milestone and detailed), and issue management –including escalations.
- Coordinating municipal resources and contractors to achieve project objectives.
- Making effective use of technology (, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, 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 potentially competing interests.
- Presenting project status reports, dashboards, issue logs, and risk register to project and business leadership.
- Tracking costs against capital budgets.
- Managing sensitive issues, including impacts to the municipality, private sector, and citizens.
- Leading stakeholders from multiple groups with diverse interests to consensus on project scope, objectives, and responsibilities in collaboration with municipal management and staff;
- Developing strategic communications, organizational change management, stakeholder engagement, and training plans to ensure end-user and stakeholder involvement.
- Managing linkages to concurrent municipal projects.
- Coordinate business to business processes with external parties (eg. WorksafeBC).
- Delivering projects of varying sizes and complexity (some greater than $M in value, some longer than year in duration) in a public sector environment.
- Reporting project status and interacting with senior executives (, Senior Manager, Director, C Level).
- Using political skills to understand, navigate, and meet stakeholder needs on sensitive projects with tight timelines.
- Working with IT Security, Privacy, and Records Management teams to ensure data security and privacy standards are being adhered to.
Preferences:
Consideration will be given to candidates with experience with one or more of the following
technology or business areas in the following order of importance:
- Experience with implementing HR cloud solutions
- Records Management Protocols
- Procurement Protocols
- Organizational Change Management strategies
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.