Snr Project Executive to assist stakeholders and clients in meeting their business objectives

Our valued client is looking for a Snr Project Executive to assist stakeholders and clients in meeting their business objectives through reliable, secure and cost-effective use of IM&IT tools.

% remote, 2 year contract.

Responsibilities:

• Manage several Project Managers, each responsible for an element of the project and its associated project team;
• Define and document project objectives, determine budget requirements;
• Meet with other organizational executives to ensure all organizational (internal and external) stakeholders are committed and moving forward on project and organizational goals;
• Resolve issues related to the project;
• Monitor project performance metrics and risk management strategies;
• Prepare plans, charts, tables and diagrams to assist in analyzing or displaying problems; work with a variety of project management tools; and
• Project sign-off.

Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years experience within the last 15 years, as a Project Executive, or 5+ years of experience with a Certified Project Management Professional certification demonstrated by providing a copy of the PMP certification in the proposal.
• For each of the projects referenced, the proposed resource must have completed at minimum five of the following tasks:
• Provided project management leadership to Project Managers or Senior Managers (Director Level or above);
• Developed frameworks to support projects for several groups with different disciplines;
• Developed and implemented project management policies and procedures;
• Assisted in the management of project deliverables;
• Developed or implemented project management support tools;
• Optimized the utilization of resources among projects or project teams; or
• Provided guidance for project and program managers to achieve project milestones, timelines and budgets.
• 5+ years of experience as a Project Executive – Level 3 along with a recognized valid professional certification (proof of this to be included in their proposal) or 10+ years of experience as a Project Executive – Level 3.
• Project Management Institute (PMI®) Certifications :
• PMP® - Project Management Professional / PMI-ACP® - PMI Agile Certified Practitioner/ PMI-PBA® - PMI Professional in Business Analysis / PMI-RMP® - PMI Risk Management Professional
• Certification from PROSCI®: Prosci Certified Change Practitioner
• Certification from Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA):
• CHRP® - Certified Human Resources Professional / CHRL® - Certified Human Resources Leader / CHRE® - Certified Human Resources Executive

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience in providing project management advice to senior managers (Director level or above), for a minimum of one year duration per project.
• Experience in creating, updating and reporting on project schedules using MS Project or experience in using DevOps for project tasks and deliverables
• Experience in developing or implementing risk management plans.
• Experience working on projects with complex mandates. To be considered, each project must have a minimum duration of one year performed within the last 15 years, and have at least one of the following characteristics:
• Involves three or more stakeholders; Affects the complete organization or enterprise; Affects users or more; Has a budget of $25 million or more.
• Experience in developing or implementing project management policies and procedures
• Experience developing or implementing project management support tools, by providing project descriptions with a minimum duration of one year per project. Support Tools are defined as:
• Diagrams, process flows, dashboards, spreadsheets, project schedule templates, cost estimation models, guidelines other types of templates, and logos
• Experience as a Project Executive on three projects within the Government of Canada.