Project Manager

Job Summary:

The Project Manager for Strategy & Impact Business Enablement is responsible for leading and delivering complex projects and initiatives within a crown corporation. This full-time remote role involves managing projects through all lifecycle phases, driving stakeholder alignment, and ensuring successful delivery of business outcomes by utilizing advanced project management methodologies including Agile, hybrid, and traditional approaches. The position requires strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage risks, scope, and change effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Lead projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, implementation, and close-out phases.
• Conduct discovery, requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, and process-mapping sessions.
• Develop and maintain project charters, business cases, management plans, schedules, budgets, and governance frameworks.
• Manage project scope, assess change impacts, and facilitate governance decision-making.
• Coordinate delivery of project deliverables across internal teams, vendors, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Support communications, marketing, digital media, content production, event planning, and stakeholder engagement workstreams.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Monitor project performance and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
• Prepare and present updates, recommendations, and decision materials to sponsors, governance bodies, and executives.
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery processes including backlog and sprint planning, roadmap creation, and retrospectives.
• Identify and implement improvements in project delivery, governance, stakeholder engagement, and organizational maturity.

Required Skills:

• Advanced project planning, execution, monitoring, and close-out expertise.
• Strong skills in requirements gathering, business analysis, and scope definition.
• Ability to establish clear scope boundaries and manage assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and change requests.
• Facilitation of workshops, interviews, and stakeholder discussions to identify needs and develop solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management with influence, negotiation, and alignment capabilities.
• Advanced risk, issue, dependency, and change management skills.
• Proficiency in governance, decision-support, and executive-level reporting and presentations.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Strong facilitation and consensus-building abilities.
• Organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving proficiency.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Coaching skills for project delivery practices and governance expectations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, backlog, reporting, and collaboration tools.
• Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies and their application.

Desired Skills:

• Experience in communications, public engagement, storytelling, advocacy, awareness, or brand initiatives.
• Experience coordinating initiatives with external partners, sponsors, customers, government stakeholders, and vendors.
• Experience leading or coordinating marketing, events, content production, digital platforms, campaigns, or activations.

Rated Criteria:

• Project lifecycle management expertise.
• Stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Risk, issue, and change management capabilities.
• Communication and presentation effectiveness.
• Governance and decision-support proficiency.
• Agile and hybrid delivery experience.
• Cross-functional team leadership.
• Business analysis and scope management.

Total: 100 Points Deliverables:

• Project charters, business cases, and project management plans.
• Schedules, budgets, governance frameworks, and communication plans.
• Risk registers, issue and dependency logs, and status reports.
• Facilitated workshop outputs, stakeholder alignment documentation, and backlog management artifacts.
• Executive presentations, steering committee materials, and decision support documentation.

Must Haves:

• 5-8 years of business experience including 3-4 years leading projects or business transformation initiatives.
• Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, or related fields.
• Professional project management certification such as PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner.
• Proven ability to manage projects independently through all lifecycle phases.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Public Sector Experience:

Preferred