Manager, Project & Portfolio Management

Bc-College-of-Nurses-and-Midwives; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 125,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental benefits

Municipal Pension Plan

Professional development support

Flexible hybrid work

Employee assistance program

Fitness allowance

Job summary

The British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (BCCNM) is seeking a Manager, Project and Portfolio Management to lead its enterprise project portfolio functions in a hybrid Vancouver setting. You will drive planning, governance, and delivery oversight across complex projects to ensure organizational outcomes and value realization.

You will partner with senior leaders, guide risk management, roadmapping, capacity planning, and financial forecasting, and develop a high-performing team through

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Information Systems, Health Administration or related discipline.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or another recognized project management certification is required. Portfolio management, agile, governance or change management certification is an asset.
• Minimum three years of experience leading a professional team with coaching and performance management.
• Experience operating an enterprise project portfolio management function with governance and delivery oversight.
• Experience overseeing complex projects through feasibility, planning, delivery and closeout using waterfall, agile or hybrid approaches.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, decision rights, stage gates, portfolio health and financial forecasting.
• Advanced analytical and systems-thinking capability; ability to present practical scenarios and recommendations.
• Ability to facilitate prioritization and sequencing discussions with sponsors, leaders, project teams and analysts.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication for governance materials.
• Experience with enterprise project and portfolio management systems; OnePlan and Azure DevOps are assets.

Responsibilities

• Leads the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of BCCNM’s project management and enterprise project portfolio management functions.
• Implements annual operating plans and sets team goals and service expectations; monitors performance.
• Develops and applies standards, templates and delivery practices; integrates with the Project Governance Process.
• Provides portfolio analysis, capacity information and scenarios to support sequencing and decisions.
• Maintains an integrated view of proposed, approved and active projects with status, timing, financial outlook and risks.
• Leads and develops a high-performing project management team through coaching and performance management.
• Assigns and oversees project managers and contractors; ensures governance and decision rights.
• Oversees Project Intake, roadmap, forecasting and portfolio information in OnePlan and related systems.
• Leads capacity and resource-demand analysis; identifies conflicts and delivery implications.
• Establishes consistent expectations for defining, tracking and reporting project outcomes and benefits.

Skills

Project governance

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Change management

Communication

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration / Public Administration / Information Systems / Health Administration

PMP or PRINCE2 certification

Tools

OnePlan

Azure DevOps

Job description

Status: Regular, Full-time
Work Location: Hybrid, Vancouver B.C. (a minimum of 2 days in office)

Who we are

The British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (“BCCNM”) is the college empowered under the Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA) to regulate the practice of all licensed practical nurses, nurse practitioners, registered midwives, registered nurses, and registered psychiatric nurses in British Columbia. Regulation helps to protect the public by ensuring that professional care or service received by the public is competent, ethical, and meets the standards that society views as acceptable.

As western Canada’s largest health profession regulator, we believe a diverse and inclusive team enriches our efforts to protect the public. We welcome applications from all who reflect of the communities we serve and especially encourage Indigenous Peoples and members of equity-seeking groups to apply. We believe diverse perspectives and experiences bring both innovation and better outcomes to the work we do and the decisions we make.
BCCNM’s commitment to Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism

BCCNM is committed to working with Indigenous Peoples and health system partners to support Indigenous-specific anti-racist practices in the health system. As the largest health regulator in Western Canada, BCCNM has the opportunity to influence the health professionals we regulate, as well as the broader health-care system, to break the cycle of racism, and improve health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples. BCCNM has pledged to become culturally safe and anti-racist, and to support the health professionals we regulate to do the same.

What we offer you

We are delighted to be recognized as one of BC’s Top Employers. It is more than a badge of honor – it’s a reflection of our people and the purpose that drives us every day. At BCCNM, we’re creating a workplace where flexibility, equity, growth, and connection are not just values – they’re part of how we work. Whether it’s through hybrid work options, meaningful employee engagement, or our commitment to reconciliation, we’re building something that matters. This honor reflects our unwavering commitment to creating a workplace where people truly thrive.

We promise to provide you with rewarding work that challenges you. You will be part of a passionate team contributing to our important mandate of protecting the public. As a member of the team, you can expect to be working in a collaborative, team-based environment, and treated in a respectful and professional manner. The expected starting base salary for this position is $125,417 - $131,689 annually, depending on a variety of factors including qualifications and experience. Once hired, you will progress through a wider salary range over time as you continue to develop job knowledge, skills and competencies for the role.

In addition to base salary, the college offers a generous vacation and extended benefits package. As an employee, you receive 100% employer-paid health and dental benefits. And we contribute to B.C.'s Municipal Pension Plan to help you secure your retirement income after 1 year of employment. Throughout your career with us, you will engage in a variety of learning and development. We will support your professional development and cover your professional membership costs. To support you in work and life, we provide an employee assistance program and fitness allowance perk. Working with us allows you to enjoy flexible hybrid work. This position is located in Vancouver, but you’ll be able to work remotely up to 3 days a week. Our office is closed for the 11 statutory holidays in B.C. as well as Easter Monday and Boxing Day.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Director, Project and Business Architecture (PBA), the Manager, Project and Portfolio Management leads the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of BCCNM’s project management and enterprise project portfolio management functions. Working within the strategic direction, governance framework and organization-wide expectations established by the Director, PBA, the Manager ensures that BCCNM’s single enterprise portfolio of projects is supported by disciplined planning, reliable information, effective delivery oversight and consistent project management practices. At BCCNM, enterprise refers to work, information or decisions that span the organization rather than a single department or project.

The Manager operates across BCCNM’s single enterprise portfolio of proposed, approved and active projects. The role balances organizational priorities, delivery commitments, constrained specialist capacity, cross-project dependencies and changing risk conditions while ensuring that analysis and recommendations remain distinct from formal approval, prioritization and resource-commitment authority.

This role requires strong enterprise project and portfolio management experience, systems thinking and sufficient understanding of technology-enabled and organizational change to oversee a diverse portfolio of strategic, regulatory, operational improvement and technology-enabled projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of BCCNM’s project management and enterprise project portfolio management functions within the strategic direction and governance framework established by the Director, PBA.
• Implements annual operating plans and key deliverables for the project and portfolio management function; establishes team goals and service expectations; and monitors performance against approved objectives.
• Develops, implements, maintains and assures consistent application of project and portfolio management standards, methodologies, tools, templates and delivery practices, including their integration with the Project Governance Process (PGP).
• Provides portfolio analysis, capacity information, scenarios and recommendations to support PSG sequencing and adjustment decisions; ensures information presented to PSG is complete, consistent and decision-ready; and implements approved decisions through the project management function.
• Maintains an integrated view of proposed, approved and active projects, including status, health, timing, milestones, financial outlook, resource demand, risks, issues, dependencies, outcomes and expected benefits.
• Leads and develops a high-performing project management team through clear expectations, assignment of work, coaching, feedback, performance management, professional development and succession planning.
• Assigns and oversees project managers and contractors, monitors workload and delivery quality, and ensures adherence to established governance, methodologies, standards and decision rights.
• Provides direction to the Project Intake Specialist and ensures clear boundaries between operational intake and roadmap maintenance. Provides portfolio oversight, interpretation, recommendations and escalation.
• Oversees the integrated enterprise project roadmap and the quality and use of portfolio information in OnePlan and related systems. Ensures intake, roadmap, scenario, forecasting and delivery information is accurate, current and suitable for planning and governance decisions.
• Leads portfolio-level capacity and resource-demand analysis using information provided by sponsors, project managers, the Project Intake Specialist and functional leaders. Identifies conflicts, over-allocation, scarce-skill constraints and delivery implications without independently committing resources owned by functional leaders.
• Develops portfolio scenarios and recommendations to support decisions to sequence, defer, accelerate, combine, pause or adjust work. Clearly distinguishes analysis and recommendations from formal approval, priority-setting and resource-commitment authority.
• Monitors project and portfolio health and escalates material delivery risks, unresolved dependencies, capacity gaps, financial pressures, scope concerns and threats to anticipated outcomes to the Director, PBA and other accountable decision-makers.
• Oversees consolidated portfolio forecasting and financial reporting in partnership with Finance, sponsors and project managers. Identifies material variances, funding dependencies and portfolio-level budget pressures and supports timely escalation and corrective action.
• Establishes consistent expectations for defining, tracking and reporting project outcomes and anticipated benefits. Supports sponsors in fulfilling their accountability for project outcomes and benefits realization and escalates material threats to value realization.
• Leads regular portfolio and project review processes, ensuring that project updates identify decisions required, emerging risks, dependencies, capacity implications and changes affecting the approved portfolio.

This posting provides an overview of the key responsibilities and qualifications of the position. Additional details about the role and its accountabilities may be discussed during the recruitment process.

Your education and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Information Systems, Health Administration or a related discipline, plus at least ten years of progressive project and portfolio management experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or another recognized project management certification is required. Portfolio management, agile, governance or change management certification is an asset.
• Minimum three years of experience leading a professional team, with demonstrated ability to assign work, coach staff, manage performance and develop project management capability.
• Demonstrated experience operating an enterprise project portfolio management function, including portfolio planning, intake, roadmapping, prioritization support, capacity analysis, dependency management, portfolio reporting, governance and delivery oversight.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing a diverse portfolio of complex projects through feasibility, planning, delivery, implementation and closeout using appropriate waterfall, agile or hybrid approaches.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, decision rights, stage gates, portfolio health, resource capacity planning, risk and issue management, financial forecasting, dependency management, outcome tracking and executive decision support.
• Advanced analytical and systems-thinking capability, including the ability to work with incomplete information, challenge assumptions, identify cumulative impacts and present practical scenarios, trade-offs and recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate difficult prioritization, sequencing, capacity and delivery discussions with sponsors, functional leaders, project managers, business analysts, technical teams and operational partners.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, including preparation and presentation of concise, audience-appropriate governance materials for senior leaders and decision-making forums.
• Strong negotiation, conflict management and problem-solving skills, with the ability to remain neutral, exercise discretion and seek workable solutions in complex or ambiguous circumstances.
• Experience using enterprise project and portfolio management systems for roadmap management, scenario modelling, resource forecasting, portfolio reporting and decision support. Experience with OnePlan and Azure DevOps is an asset.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external partners, Indigenous rights holders and affected audiences with varied business, regulatory and systems knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, adapt to changing conditions and maintain focus on enterprise outcomes and agreed decision rights.
• Working knowledge of technology-enabled change, business process improvement, data and information-system dependencies, vendor delivery and organizational change management.
• Working knowledge of financial management as it applies to project and portfolio forecasting, budget monitoring, variance analysis and investment decision support.
• Experience working in a regulated, public-interest or health-care environment is an asset.
• Ability to communicate material changes in project or portfolio scope, schedule, cost, capacity, risk and outcomes to the appropriate partners, audiences and decision-makers in a timely and transparent manner.
• Knowledge of Canadian colonial impacts on Indigenous peoples in social and health contexts, including the social, economic, political, and historical realities affecting Indigenous communities and knowledge of Indigenous-specific anti-racism and accompanying reports, is an asset.
• Demonstrated understanding of equity, diversity, inclusion, cultural safety and cultural humility as they apply to health regulation and organizational leadership is an asset.

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Please note: BCCNM no longer requires staff, contractors, board and committee members, and volunteers to provide an attestation of vaccination related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the event of a Public Health Order being issued, the College is committed to full compliance with all directives and guidelines set forth by the Provincial Health Officer (PHO) to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees and the community partners we work with, consistent with the duty of the College to serve and protect the public.