Information Technology Project Manager

Hi,

I hope you are doing great!

My name is Abhishek Pandey, and I’m reaching out on behalf of Q1 Tech regarding an exciting job opportunity that I believe aligns well with your skills and experience.

Please take a moment to review the job description attached below. If you find the role interesting, I’d appreciate it if you could share your updated resume and let me know a good time for us to connect.

You can reach me via email at [email protected] or call me at +1 (647) 558 5216.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon with a positive response.

Position: Project Manager (IT) - Senior

Location: Edmonton, AB hybrid

Duration: Long term Contract

Experience working in or for the public sector.

Duties:

Responsible for the coordination and implementation of various Courts related technology projects. Oversees all aspects of the projects. Builds an effective operating environment, defines project objectives, scope, and guiding principles, conducts comprehensive analysis of the projects, monitors and summarizes progress of the project. Builds and maintains working relationships with Courts stakeholders, project vendors, and GoA departments involved in the project. Prepares reports for management regarding status of project.

For this role, a deep understanding of both the application support space as well as Data and AI delivery is required.

• Compile project charters and business/project plans with clear objectives and expected project outcomes to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each deliverable and work product, 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 organization’s 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 tasks, project resources and project governance.

• Conduct consultations with key internal Courts stakeholders and Ministry of Justice stakeholders

• Work with project vendors 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.

• Coordinate with leadership to develop a well-defined project plans 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 project teams that require change management and communication support.

• Engage and establish positive working relationships with subject matter representatives across the Alberta Courts and Court Technology Services to ensure that project decisions, directions and recommendations align and consider broader Court directions;

• Provide input and/or develop Chief, Minister/Deputy Minister/Assistant Deputy Minister-level briefings, as required;

• 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.

• Define protocols and practices related to application support, data delivery and AI including architecture, process and procedures, resource management, etc.

Notes on Location:

Resource will work in a hybrid manner, though must be available for onsite meetings when required. Work from office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Work Location:

1st Floor – John E. Brownlee Building

10365 97 St. NW

Edmonton Alberta T5J 3W7

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

Work Experience

Experience defining project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.

Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs and project closures.

Experience managing custom application development projects with at least 5 team members.

Experience managing data and AI development, delivery and support projects/teams with at least 5 team members.

Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.

Experience successfully implementing IT solutions in an environment with project resources from across multiple teams or organizations.

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 conducting, facilitating and interpreting impact and risk assessments across multiple scenarios.

Experience creating and managing project forecast and actual budgets.

Experience developing and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships across the organization, including executive level.

Experience making decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues without formal guidelines or precedents and exercises resourcefulness and ingenuity

Experience working in or for the public sector.

Experience working with Mandated and Legislated Projects within short timelines.

Experience leading project governance, change management and communication activities.

Experience working with technical teams on complex IMT projects.