Senior Project Manager

TEEMA; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Project Manager to lead a crucial initiative aimed at enhancing accommodation services for faculty, staff, and students. This role involves collaborating with various departments to define project goals, manage resources, and ensure successful implementation of solutions. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in the public sector, particularly in managing student services and applying organizational change management strategies. Join a dynamic team dedicated to making a positive impact in the community through effective project delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in a post-secondary or public sector environment is essential.
• Strong understanding of organizational change management strategies.

Responsibilities

• Accountable to the project steering committee for project governance.
• Facilitates project scope definition, deliverables, budget, and timelines.
• Manages project resources and ensures operational readiness.

Skills

Experience in post-secondary or public sector

Managing solutions for student services

Working with multiple business and vendor teams

Organizational change management strategies

Job description

12-month contract with the possibility of extension

Location : must be available to be onsite in Edmonton 2 days each week.

Our client is looking to streamline accommodation services processes and technology used to support faculty staff and students. The focus of this project is to better understand the needs of the community through a discovery phase followed by a design and implementation phase of solutions to address those needs.

SKILLS NEEDED :

• Considerable experience working in a post-secondary or public sector environment
• Experience implementing and / or managing solutions that support student services
• Experience working with and managing multiple business technical and vendor teams
• Demonstrated understanding of and experience with incorporating organizational change management (OCM) strategies and plans as part of overall project delivery

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING :

• The Project Manager will be accountable to the project steering committee which will consist of senior representatives of various units / departments
• Facilitates the definition of project scope, governance goals and objectives, deliverables, budget, timelines, assumptions, constraints, risks.
• Develops plans for project completion including, as appropriate: measures of success, schedule, staffing, budget, quality, communications, risk, procurement.
• Secures and manages project resources including people, budget, equipment, and tools.
• Manages and reports on the implementation of the project plan.
• Validates acceptance of deliverables.
• Ensures operational readiness. Monitors and reports on project and team performance against plans and takes effective corrective action as required.
• Ensures compliance with project management standards through periodic audits, coaching, and mentoring.
• Identifies root causes for variances from project parameters like schedule, budget, scope, and arbitrates or escalates for efficient resolution.