Job Title

Senior Project Manager - Hybrid

Vacancy No

VN8538

Company Name

Compugen Inc

Work Location

Victoria, BC

Base Pay Range

$0-$0 Hourly (Note: This range is not applicable to Independent Contractors.)

Job Details

About Compugen

Compugen is Canada's largest privately-owned Technology Ally. To innovate industries, transform businesses, connect communities, and drive meaningful change, we must think bigger, reach broader, and act bolder. Through knowledge, curiosity, and collaboration, Compugen helps organizations delivering experience by design. This is what it means to be human-centered and technology-enabled.

Dreaming, designing, and delivering isn't just a mantra for us — it's a way of life. We believe that technology is the conduit, but our people – they are the connection that truly makes the magic happen!

Our Culture

We are a human-centered culture where we prioritize your well-being and are invested in helping you reach your fullest potential. We're not only focused on achieving our goals — we're dedicated to helping you achieve yours.

If you're relentlessly curious, driven to make a difference, and collaborative at the core, then you belong with us.

Position Overview:

Compugen is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a major Workforce Management (WM) systems initiative. This organization-wide project will implement a new application featuring employee self-service capabilities, integrated Occupational Health and Safety functions, and core Human Resources operations.
This will be for an initial 1 year contract working onsite at least two days per week.

Skills & Qualifications:

• • Post-secondary degree in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Project Management certification or designation (e.g., PRINCE2, PgMP, PMP, etc.) preferred.

Experience:

• Proven experience with large-scale Workforce Management System rollouts.
• Municipal government experience is preferred.
• More than ten (10) years on IT projects; and
• More than five (5) years as a Senior Project Manager.

Skills and Expertise:
Demonstrated proficiency and experience in the following areas:

• Senior Project Manager experience in large scale SaaS HR and/or OHS/Disability Management projects. Similar large scale project experience may be acceptable; however, there is a strong preference for HR and/or OHS/Disability Management experience.

• Preparing project charters, master project plans, providing risk analysis and risk management.

• Managing scope by establishing clear project boundaries. Using change control to communicate and ensure understanding of any necessary changes.

• Extensive experience with budgeting/cost control, resource management, scheduling (milestone and detailed), and issue management –including escalations.

• Coordinating municipal resources and contractors to achieve project objectives.

• Making effective use of technology (e.g., Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, etc.) to support efficient management and communications within a project team.

• Communicating with a cross-discipline team including complex stakeholder groups and project sponsors with potentially competing interests.

• Presenting project status reports, dashboards, issue logs, and risk register to project and business leadership.

• Tracking costs against capital budgets.

• Managing sensitive issues, including impacts to the municipality, private sector, and citizens.

• Leading stakeholders from multiple groups with diverse interests to consensus on project scope, objectives, and responsibilities in collaboration with municipal management and staff;

• Developing strategic communications, organizational change management, stakeholder engagement, and training plans to ensure end-user and stakeholder involvement.

• Managing linkages to concurrent municipal projects.

• Coordinate business to business processes with external parties (eg. WorksafeBC).

• Delivering projects of varying sizes and complexity (some greater than $1M in value, some longer than 1 year in duration) in a public sector environment.

• Reporting project status and interacting with senior executives (e.g., Senior Manager, Director, C Level).

• Using political skills to understand, navigate, and meet stakeholder needs on sensitive projects with tight timelines. Working with IT Security, Privacy, and Records Management teams

Equity Statement

At Compugen, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We actively recruit from all groups, including women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. We recognize the importance of removing barriers to participation and provide accommodation upon request to all applicants throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, our People & Culture representative will work with you to meet your needs in a confidential and respectful manner. We believe everyone deserves a seat at the table-and we are taking deliberate action to make this a reality.
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