Project Manager (IT) – Senior

Submission Close Date: June 6, 2025

Estimated Start Date:    June 30, 2025

Estimated End Date:       March 31, 2026

Location:                            Hybrid/Edmonton

NOTES ON LOCATION:

The position requires a hybrid work model.

 

POSITION REQUIREMENTS – Criteria & Qualification

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

        • 8 years demonstrated experience in developing integrated plans, portfolio, and project reporting and 8 communicating progress to senior executives.
        • 5 years demonstrated experience leading healthcare portfolios or initiatives of similar size and complexity.
        • 5 years experience assisting clients to execute strategies with technology, process, organizational design, and IT operations.
        • 8 years experience in the development of project documents for a wide variety of initiatives and projects (strategic, business improvement, information technology, etc.).
        • 8 years experience supporting and collaborating directly with stakeholders, external (public users) and internal business areas. Ability to co-ordinate and communicate necessary information well to all clients.
        • 8 years experience working with cross-functional teams to understand detailed requirements and align the design to product vision and user needs.
        • 5 years senior leadership experience defining project scope, goals and deliverables such as roadmaps, governance, briefing notes, and business cases that support project goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
        • 8 years experience leading project governance, change management and communication activities.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS:

        • 3 years demonstrated experience with data integration between clinical applications in the Canadian eHealth environment.
        • 5 years demonstrated experience working as a Change Manager on a large complex custom software application development project in an environment of similar size and complexity to the Government of Alberta.
        • 5 years experience in the analysis, development, and integration of complex IT systems.
        • 5 years experience in understanding complex businesses questions and framing the right analytical question to solve a business problem.

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES – Description & Responsibilities

Description:

Responsible for the coordination and completion of IT projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.

        • Compile project charters and business/project plans to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each applicable project, to ensure business objectives and data integrity are achieved.
        • Manage project(s) that will document business requirements, design and deliver IT solutions that are compliant with and contribute to the Ministries’ enterprise architecture.
        • Assist with the development of recommendations including providing details of resource requirements, dependencies, interdependencies, policy implications pertaining to internal/external influences and the methodology to be applied.
        • Produce and package deliverables for presentation to various internal support teams, steering committee, and other project stakeholders.
        • Manage multiple projects, project resources, and project governance.
        • Work with project sponsors to ensure that effective project communication exists through the duration of the project including escalation of risks as required.
        • Take responsibility for ongoing client satisfaction – manage peer-level client relationships and overcome hurdles to ensure win-win solutions.
        • Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan that clearly states the project’s objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits, and budget.
        • Work with project sponsors and the project management office to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.
        • Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget, and resources and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks.
        • Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.
        • Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks.
        • Develop, as required, related requirements documentation.
        • In collaboration with project sponsors, assess whether the project achieved stated outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement for future similar projects.
        • Provide leadership and assistance to business and project teams that require change management and communication support.
        • Work within the standards defined by the project management office and in the absence of standards work with the project management office to define new standards.

 

Terms and Conditions:

To find out more information or to apply for this position please send in your resume and cover letter to: [email protected] or apply below. KZenEdge will conduct internal interviews with selected candidates.

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