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We are looking for Senior IT Project Manager - Remote / Telecommute for our client in Edmonton, AB
Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager - Remote / Telecommute
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
Job Description:
Duties:
- 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.
- Financial/Pricing: 20%.
- Resource Qualifications: 20%.
- Interview Process: 60%.
- Proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following: 4-yr University graduation-Telecommunications, Electrical or Electronics Engineering degree or a related discipline & 8-yr broadband/telecommunications technical experience; OR 12-yr or more combined broadband-related education & broadband technical experience in a related discipline (telecom engineering, network engineer, telecom field technician, communication technician, etc.) Yes/ No.
- Experience defining project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders 6 years.
- Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs and project closures 8 years.
- Experience managing multiple projects concurrently 8 years.
- Experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex custom software application development project (where the software is developed in house for that specific organization) in an environment of similar size and complexity to the Government 6 years.
- Experience conducting, facilitating and interpreting impact and risk assessments across multiple scenarios 5 years.
- Experience creating and managing project forecasts in Microsoft Project 4 years
- Experience developing and maintaining positive relationships across the organization, from front line staff to executives 5 years.
- Experience in project coordination of government and vendor-wide information management / information technology initiatives 2 years.
- Experience leading and facilitating meetings with stakeholders at all levels. 8 years
- Experience leading change management and communication planning 5 years
- Experience leading custom software application development projects following a formal project life cycle methodology 6 years.
- Experience working in or for the public sector 3 years.
- Experience working on Enterprise Content Management systems within government 3 years.
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