Senior Project Manager

Job summary

Lead projects through initiation, planning, delivery, and close-out, managing scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, and business outcomes. Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders; maintain governance and reporting; and provide updates and recommendations to sponsors and executives.

Job details

Title: Project Manager Location: Remote Term: 6 Months (With Possibility of extension) Clearance: Criminal Record Check Required Experience 5–8 years of business experience, including 3–4 years leading projects, programs, organizational change, or business transformation. Independently managed projects from initiation through implementation and close-out. Developed project charters, business cases, plans, schedules, budgets, governance, communications and reporting. Led requirements gathering, discovery, process mapping, scope definition and stakeholder alignment. Managed risks, issues, dependencies and scope changes across cross-functional teams, vendors and competing priorities. Delivered projects using Agile, hybrid or traditional approaches and presented recommendations to senior leaders. Relevant post-secondary education or equivalent education and experience. PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent recognized certification. Preferred Experience Communications, public engagement, storytelling, advocacy or brand initiatives. Coordination with external partners, sponsors, customers, government or industry stakeholders. Marketing, events, content, digital platforms, campaigns or other externally facing deliverables. Required Skills Strong project planning, delivery, requirements analysis and scope management. Effective workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, negotiation and consensus building. Strong risk, issue, dependency, change management and executive decision-support skills. Excellent communication, organization, analysis and problem-solving. Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority and coach others on delivery practices. Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and project planning, backlog, reporting and collaboration tools. Knowledge of Agile, hybrid and traditional methodologies. Description of Duties Lead projects through the full lifecycle, delivering agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and business outcomes. Define objectives, requirements, scope, success measures and deliverables through discovery and stakeholder workshops. Maintain project plans, schedules, governance, communications, reporting and risk/issue/dependency logs. Assess scope changes and obtain appropriate approvals. Coordinate teams, vendors and stakeholders across communications, marketing, digital, content, events and partnership workstreams. Monitor delivery, resolve challenges and present updates, recommendations and decisions to sponsors and executives. Support Agile/hybrid planning and improve delivery practices, governance and stakeholder engagement.

What you’ll do

Lead projects through initiation, planning, delivery, and close-out, managing scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, and business outcomes. Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders; maintain governance and reporting; and provide updates and recommendations to sponsors and executives.

Requirements

Requires 5–8 years of business experience, including 3–4 years leading projects or transformation initiatives, plus experience independently managing projects from initiation through close-out. Requires relevant post-secondary education or equivalent experience and a PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent certification; strong planning, stakeholder, risk, communication, and methodology skills are also required.

Listed skills

• Stakeholder Management · Preferred
• Negotiation · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Change Management · Preferred
• Microsoft 365 · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Project Planning
• Project Delivery
• Requirements Analysis
• Scope Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Negotiation
• Consensus Building
• Risk Management
• Change Management
• Executive Decision Support
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft 365
• Project Reporting

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Consulting
• Marketing

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