Sr It Project Manager | vTech Solution | Canada

Role: Project Manager (IT) – Senior

Location: Remote

Term: 10 months

Project Overview:

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.

Duties:
The Senior Project Manager will work with the Data Center of Excellence to provide project management services hat delivers services to enable data access, analytics and economy to support data-informed decision making.

This role will be responsible for managing new projects and projects in progress, which is designed to coordinate, analyze, and manage delivery of data products and analytical initiatives supporting the Data Center of Excellence. The role is key in defining and meeting all scope requirements, budgets, and timelines, and ensuring defined business and technical requirements are met. The role would provide hands on knowledge to team members to teach team members on implying the agile methodology acting as an agile coach.

• Aligning project scope, goals, and deliverables to business objectives in collaboration with the senior leadership team and internal stakeholders
• Managing effective and appropriate project governance for project(s)
• Producing and maintaining a project plan while conducting the project within constraints of the framework used by different delivery teams
• Developing and managing project artifacts and associated communications documents
• Planning and scheduling project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Estimating the resources and participants required to achieve project goals
• Ensuring proper financial management of the project
• Ensuring proper risk management by documenting all risks and employing an effective mitigation strategy
• Ensuring proper decision management by documenting all decisions and employing an effective communication strategy
• Managing delivery team using agile methodologies and reconcile same with the project plan.
• Supporting other related project delivery team and business areas within the Data Center of Excellence along with various stakeholders.
• Applying knowledge of information and data management, privacy, and security legislation to guide project decisions.
• Contributing to the development of policies and procedures, ensuring they align with strategic objectives.
• Demonstrate a functional understanding of strategic planning processes to align project outcomes with organizational goals.
• Understand and apply principles of information and data systems development to ensure the successful delivery of data products.
• Advise the Manager of Data Product Delivery on all aspects of project delivery, providing expert insights and recommendations.
• Exhibit strong communication and team-building skills, fostering collaboration and influencing decisions that positively impact the organization.
• Support the Data product owners and Data product delivery analysts in delivery of data products and ensuring adherence to timelines.
• Lead the team in establishing agile best practices for resource utilization, product prioritization, value management, status delivery and project sizing.
• Manage various projects concurrently and communicate appropriate update to leadership team.

Skills and Experience

The proposed resource must meet or exceed one of the following:

• University graduation in business, management or related discipline, and four years of Project Management (PM) experience; OR
• Two-year diploma in business, management or related discipline and six years of PM experience; OR
• One year certificate in business, management or related discipline and seven years of PM experience; OR
• Eight years of PM experience
• Currently active PMP or PGMP Certification as issued by the Project Management Institute or equivalent (attach a copy of the certificate)
• Experience defining project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Experience in coaching teams on Agile methodologies, facilitating agile ceremonies, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration
• Experience in the development of business cases for a wide variety of initiatives and projects (strategic, business improvement, information technology, etc.).
• Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.
• Experience with change management.
• Active professional Scrum Master certification. Please attach certificate.
• Prosci change management certification or designation
• Experience conducting, facilitating and interpreting impact and risk assessments across multiple scenarios.
• Experience creating and managing project forecast and actual budgets.
• Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs and project closures.
• Experience in Agile project methodology
• Experience making decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues without formal guidelines or precedents and exercises resourcefulness and ingenuity
• Experience working with information management policies, directives, and guidelines.
• Experience leading project governance, change management and communication activities.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $100.00-$110.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental care

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Project management: 8 years (required)
• Data center: 7 years (required)
• Change management: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• PMP or PGMP (required)
• Scrum Master certification (required)
• Prosci change management certification (preferred)

Work Location: Remote

Tagged as: remote, remote job, virtual, Virtual Job, virtual position, Work at Home, work from home