IT Program Manager - Senior

ONSITE position at Edmonton, Alberta


Must haves:

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

• University graduation in business, management or a related discipline and 6-yr Program Manager experience; OR

• 2-yr diploma in business, management or a related discipline and 8-yr Program Manager experience; OR

• 1-yr certificate in business, management or a related discipline and 9-yr Program Manager experience; OR

• 10-yr Program Manager experience

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact professionally with a diverse group.

Ability to learn quickly, problem solve/troubleshoot, work independently and in a team.

The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with team members, management and vendors.

The ability to manage stress.


Atleast 8 years of experience:

• Experience defining project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Experience developing and maintaining positive relationships across the organization, including executive level.
• Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs and project closures.
• Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.
• 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 of Alberta.
• Experience in developing project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans for completion of project tasks.
• Experience successfully implementing IT solutions in an environment with project resources from across multiple teams or organizations.
• Experience conducting, facilitating and interpreting impact and risk assessments across multiple scenarios.
• Experience evaluating policies, programs, and initiatives using program development principles
• Experience in the design, development and implementation of a digital transformation initiative or digital delivery program
• Experience leading large enterprise-scale projects and programs.
• Experience making decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues without formal guidelines or precedents and exercises resourcefulness and ingenuity
• Experience using advanced oral and verbal communication skills with staff at all levels of an organization to address the value of service design.
• Experience working in or for the public sector.
• Experience writing program/project related documents such as proposals, business plans, statements of work, RFPs, and strategy documents.
• Experience working with Mandated and Legislated Projects within short timelines.
• Experience as Program Manager managing a portfolio of projects by providing governance, prioritizing, monitoring, reporting at a Program level.
• Experience leading project governance, change management and communication activities.

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