Project Manager (IT) – Senior
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Job Description
Project Manager (IT) – Senior
Client: Government of Alberta (GoA)
Department: Technology and Innovation
Project: Artificial Intelligence Delivery and Enablement (AIDE)
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Work Arrangement: Remote within Alberta; onsite attendance required when requested
Positions: 3
Maximum Rate: CAD $100–$110 per hour
Expected Interviews: Approximately two weeks after the posting closes
Contract Hours: 1,783.50 hours
Work Schedule: 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8:15 AM–4:30 PM Alberta time
PMP Certification: Mandatory
Project Overview
The Government of Alberta's Artificial Intelligence Delivery and Enablement (AIDE) branch leads the adoption, implementation, and responsible use of artificial intelligence to improve productivity, decision-making, and public service delivery.
The Senior IT Project Manager will lead and coordinate enterprise AI enablement projects across multiple ministries. The role covers enterprise AI licensing and consumption, cloud platform and integration, governance and security, and training and adoption.
The successful candidate will manage multiple concurrent projects, coordinate cross-functional teams and vendors, oversee project schedules, budgets, risks and dependencies, and guide AI capabilities from pilot evaluation through governed enterprise deployment and operational handover.
Key Responsibilities
1. Project Management and Governance
Develop project charters, business cases, project plans, schedules, budgets, resource estimates, and delivery strategies.
Manage project scope, milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and interdependencies.
Coordinate multiple concurrent projects across different directors, sponsors, ministries, and delivery teams.
Monitor project progress and implement corrective actions to ensure successful delivery.
Prepare project status reports, executive briefings, recommendations, and steering committee presentations.
Establish project governance, roles, responsibilities, escalation procedures, and reporting standards.
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, organizational priorities, project management office standards, and business objectives.
2. Enterprise AI Licensing and Consumption Management
Plan and manage enterprise AI licence allocation, provisioning, reassignment, reclamation, and lifecycle management across ministries.
Coordinate enterprise AI solutions, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Google Gemini Enterprise, Claude Enterprise, and other approved AI platforms.
Manage licence allocation models, quotas, ServiceNow request workflows, and provisioning processes.
Coordinate chargeback, cost-recovery, and consumption-based financial management with finance, procurement, vendors, and ministry stakeholders.
Establish reporting on licence utilization, AI consumption, expenditure, and adoption.
Provide recommendations to senior leadership regarding licence demand, cost transparency, utilization, and resource allocation.
3. AI Cloud Platform and Integration
Manage cloud and platform enablement projects involving Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, SaaS platforms, and AI service integrations.
Coordinate cloud environment provisioning, landing zones, sandbox environments, API enablement, and hybrid or on-premises integrations.
Oversee identity and access management, data connectors, grounding sources, and integration with existing business applications.
Coordinate technical teams and vendors to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable AI capabilities.
Manage platform lifecycle changes, model deprecation, migration activities, and associated communication plans.
Coordinate monitoring, operational documentation, support models, and transition to ongoing operations.
4. Governance, Security, Privacy and Compliance
Coordinate project intake, assessment, prioritization, and approval processes.
Work with security, privacy, legal, procurement, and enterprise architecture teams to obtain the necessary approvals.
Coordinate Security Threat and Risk Assessments (STRAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), and information classification and data-residency reviews.
Ensure compliance with responsible AI standards, security controls, privacy requirements, data protection obligations, and applicable government policies.
Manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT), release-readiness reviews, risk mitigation, and deployment approvals.
Document compliance requirements, decisions, risks, and mitigation measures throughout the project lifecycle.
5. Training, Adoption and Change Management
Develop and coordinate organizational change management and communication plans for enterprise AI rollouts.
Work with the Alberta AI Academy, ministry leadership, and AI Delivery and Enablement Champions to coordinate training and adoption.
Develop role-based training plans, user guides, communications, knowledge articles, and support pathways.
Coordinate stakeholder engagement, business readiness, use-case identification, and feedback collection.
Track training completion, adoption metrics, and user feedback against established targets.
Recommend corrective actions to improve adoption and ensure responsible use of AI capabilities.
6. AI Pilots and Enterprise Service Transition
Manage AI pilots and proofs of concept from initial intake and evaluation through to enterprise enablement recommendations.
Define pilot objectives, user cohorts, evaluation criteria, timelines, deliverables, and success measures.
Coordinate vendor-supported training, use-case capture, testing, and stakeholder feedback.
Assess platform readiness, security and privacy approvals, licensing, consumption costs, support requirements, and operational dependencies.
Prepare recommendations on whether pilots should proceed to enterprise deployment.
Coordinate transition to production, operational handover, support documentation, and lessons learned.
7. Stakeholder Management and Executive Reporting
Build and maintain relationships with executive directors, directors, project sponsors, ministry representatives, vendors, and technical teams.
Manage stakeholder expectations, resolve delivery challenges, and escalate risks and competing priorities appropriately.
Develop high-quality written communications, project reports, presentations, and recommendations for executive and ministerial audiences.
Identify resource requirements, dependencies, policy implications, and delivery methodologies.
Evaluate project outcomes, stakeholder satisfaction, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
Requirements
Mandatory Qualifications
Education and Project Management Experience
The candidate must meet at least ONE of the following criteria:
University graduation in business, management, or a related discipline, with at least 4 years of Project Management experience; OR
A two-year diploma in business, management, or a related discipline, with at least 6 years of Project Management experience; OR
A one-year certificate in business, management, or a related discipline, with at least 7 years of Project Management experience; OR
At least 8 years of Project Management experience, without a specified education requirement.
Mandatory Certification
PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Mandatory Work Experience
8 years: Developing project schedules, estimating resource requirements, and developing and monitoring work plans.
8 years: Identifying, analyzing, and managing risks on large, complex projects.
2 years: Implementing large-scale cloud-based projects and services related to AI service enablement and integration.
3 years: Managing Microsoft 365 implementation projects involving multiple Office 365 products and requirements.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
1 year: Delivering generative AI or agentic AI tools in an enterprise environment, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Google Gemini Enterprise, or Claude Enterprise.
5 years: Developing and delivering communications and presentations to executives, management, program sponsors, steering committees, branch managers, and end users.
2 years: Implementing chargeback, cost-recovery, or consumption and expenditure reporting for cloud or SaaS services.
4 years: Understanding the impact of organizational policies, processes, and procedures on performance.
5 years: Leading large enterprise-scale projects and programs.
3 years: Leading organizational change management and user adoption for enterprise technology rollouts, including training programs and business champion networks.
2 years: Managing technology pilots or proofs of concept from evaluation through production or enterprise service.
3 years: Planning and coordinating User Acceptance Testing for enterprise technology implementations.
2 years: Managing enterprise software or SaaS licence rollout, allocation, lifecycle management, request workflows, and provisioning.
2 years: Applying security controls in project solutions and designs, including STRAs and PIAs.
5 years: Process improvement, documentation, and requirements gathering.
5 years: Working in or for the public sector.
Required Knowledge and Skills
Enterprise IT project management and delivery governance.
Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud, SaaS licensing, cloud consumption, and identity and access management concepts.
Generative AI and agentic AI concepts, including assistants, agents, grounding, model selection, responsible AI risks, and consumption-based cost drivers.
Risk management, issue resolution, dependency management, and resource planning.
Security and privacy assessment coordination, including STRAs and PIAs.
User Acceptance Testing, release management, and operational transition.
Organizational change management, training, stakeholder engagement, and user adoption.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive-level and ministerial-level material.
Ability to work independently, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and manage changing priorities in a large, federated organization.
Work Location and Equipment Requirements
The resource must work from within Alberta, Canada, due to network and data security requirements.
The role is remote; however, the resource must be available for onsite meetings when required, potentially three to four times per month.
The contractor must provide their own computer and related equipment. Windows is preferred; a modern Windows or macOS system compatible with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is required.
The quoted rate must include all overhead, equipment, supplies, office costs, administrative expenses, and other costs associated with service delivery.
The standard work schedule is 8:15 AM–4:30 PM Alberta time, Monday through Friday, excluding provincial holidays.
Travel, commuting, relocation, accommodation, and meal expenses for onsite attendance are not reimbursed by the Government of Alberta.
Additional Requirements
A standard criminal record check is required before commencement, if requested by the Province.
The selected resource must complete mandatory government training, including Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP) and security awareness training.
All required experience must be explicitly documented in the resume under the relevant job or project.
Each job or project must include its term in the exact format MMM/YYYY to MMM/YYYY.
Requirements
8 years: Developing project schedules, estimating resource requirements, and developing and monitoring work plans. 8 years: Identifying, analyzing, and managing risks on large, complex projects. 2 years: Implementing large-scale cloud-based projects and services related to AI service enablement and integration. 3 years: Managing Microsoft 365 implementation projects involving multiple Office 365 products and requirements. Nice-to-Have Qualifications 1 year: Delivering generative AI or agentic AI tools in an enterprise environment, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Google Gemini Enterprise, or Claude Enterprise. 5 years: Developing and delivering communications and presentations to executives, management, program sponsors, steering committees, branch managers, and end users. 2 years: Implementing chargeback, cost-recovery, or consumption and expenditure reporting for cloud or SaaS services. 4 years: Understanding the impact of organizational policies, processes, and procedures on performance. 5 years: Leading large enterprise-scale projects and programs. 3 years: Leading organizational change management and user adoption for enterprise technology rollouts, including training programs and business champion networks. 2 years: Managing technology pilots or proofs of concept from evaluation through production or enterprise service. 3 years: Planning and coordinating User Acceptance Testing for enterprise technology implementations. 2 years: Managing enterprise software or SaaS licence rollout, allocation, lifecycle management, request workflows, and provisioning. 2 years: Applying security controls in project solutions and designs, including STRAs and PIAs. 5 years: Process improvement, documentation, and requirements gathering. 5 years: Working in or for the public sector.