Senior Project Manager
Our client in Regina, Saskatchewan is looking for a Senior Project Manager for Regina Moose Jaw locations for a 3 year potential contract. The projects that this resource will manage will include: changes to business systems, processes and programs; information technology (IT) and infrastructure; and, financial and human resources, all of which impact branches across the Ministry, sector partners and the wider community. As this will be an iterative process, the Project Manager will be leveraged on other projects as required.
Project Duties of Resource:
· Develop the terms of the Project Charter in consultation with the Project Leadership Team
· Produce the project plan and gaining Project Sponsor approval
· Ensure the project is undertaken in accordance with the standards, processes and documentation which follows PMI standards
· Produce deliverables on time, within budget and to specification
· Integration of project touch points (interconnections) across related projects
· Monitoring quality of project deliverables.
· Timely communications regarding project progress, issues and concerns to the team, project sponsors and relevant stakeholders
· Monitoring quality of project deliverables and ensuring project objectives are met
· Developing project change requests (scope, time, cost) and negotiating with project sponsor
· Developing and monitoring risks in a formal method in consultation with the Ministry Enterprise Risk Management resource
· Team health – ensuring conflict is handled, members receive recognition, etc
Mandatory Requirements:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification with a minimum of 5 years experience in project management and satisfactory completion of one or more projects at a senior level.
- Five years experience that includes at least one significant multi-million dollar project.
- Communication and Influence: An ability to communicate effectively (both orally and written) with the team, senior management, other functions, stakeholders, and customers. Excellent facilitation skills are needed. Ability to communicate complex and highly technical concepts to technical and non-technical people (written and oral).
Other Required Skills:
- Leadership: An ability to lead and motivate people and encourage teamwork in a environment with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal skills with proven experience working with all levels within an organization and understanding business priorities
- Demonstrated ability to prepare project documents (e.g. progress reports, detailed budget and human resource submissions and budget analysis, IT business cases, proposals, functional requirements, training manuals, business/technical architecture specifications, strategies, project close-out documents including ‘lessons learned’)
- IT business solution implementation: experience leading projects that involved implementing major changes to business systems and processes.
- Commitment, assertiveness, and self-reliance: Ability to recognize and resolve issues early and thoroughly. Ability to solve problems in integrated environments
- Experience in transitioning project deliverables to operations
- Experience creating or working with SOW (Statements of Work)
- Eligible for Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification is considered an asset
- Experience using, or certification with, a change management methodology is considered an asset.
What Modis can Offer?
Fantastic Salary the Best Work life balance!!!