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Job Title: Project Manager (IT) - SeniorDuration: 9 months (Maximum Extension Term: 24 months) Location: Edmonton, AB (The position requires hybrid work model) Description: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 projects 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. THREE REFERENCES, FOR WHOM SIMILAR WORK HAS BEEN PERFORMED, MUST BE PROVIDED. THE MOST RECENT REFERENCE SHOULD BE LISTED FIRST. REFERENCE CHECKS MAY OR MAY NOT BE COMPLETED TO ASSIST WITH SCORING THE PROPOSED RESOURCE. QUALIFICATIONS:Must HaveWork ExperienceDemonstrated experience in developing integrated plans, portfolio and project reporting and communicating progress to senior executives.Demonstrated experience leading healthcare portfolios or initiatives of similar size and complexity.Experience assisting clients to execute strategies with technology, process, organizational design and IT operations.Experience in the development of project documents for a wide variety of initiatives and projects (strategic, business improvement, information technology, etc.).Experience supporting and collaborating directly with stakeholders, external (public users) and internal business areas. Ability to co-ordinate and communicate necessary information well to all clients.Experience working with cross-functional teams to understand detailed requirements and align the design to product vision and user needs.Senior leadership experience defining project scope, goals and deliverables such as roadmaps, governance, briefing notes, and business cases that support project goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.Project GovernanceNice to HaveWork ExperienceDemonstrated experience with data integration between clinical applications in the Canadian eHealth environment.Demonstrated experience working as a Change Manager on a large complex custom software application development project in an environment of similar size and complexity to the Client.Experience in the analysis, development, and integration of complex IT systems. Experience in understanding complex businesses questions and framing the right analytical question to solve a business problem.