Senior Project Manager
- Edmonton, AB, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Education
- Master’s degree
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
- Transition Company:
- Cancer Care Alberta
- Classification:
- Project Manager
- Union:
- Exempt
- Unit and Program:
- Guidance and Resource Unit
- Primary Location:
- Seventh Street Plaza
- Location Details:
- Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
- Negotiable Location:
- Provincial
- Employee Class:
- Regular Full Time
- FTE:
- 1.00
- Posting End Date:
- 22-OCT-2026
- Date Available:
- 16-NOV-2026
- Hours per Shift:
- 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks:
- 2
- Shifts per cycle:
- 10
- Shift Pattern:
- Days
- Days Off:
- Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary:
- $38.73
- Maximum Salary:
- $66.42
- Vehicle Requirement:
- Not Applicable
Master’s degree in business administration or a related healthcare discipline. Project Management and/or Quality Improvement certification or designation.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years of progressive and related project management experience, including expert knowledge of project management principles, tools and methodologies. Minimum of 3 years of experience leading project teams and large projects within a healthcare organization of significant size, complexity and diversity, through project planning, execution, monitoring, evaluation, and sustainability. Demonstrated leadership skills, including comfort with decision-making responsibilities, coaching and teaching, and the ability to inspire and build confidence in others. Highly effective communicator with demonstrated advanced skills in verbal and written communications. Demonstrated ability to develop and facilitate presentations and communication materials such as infographics, videos, briefing notes, reports, and websites, to convey information and transfer knowledge. Demonstrated high proficiency, including the ability to coach and train others, in MS Office Suite, including MS Access, Project, Visio, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with cancer projects and/or stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to foster relationships and partnerships with internal and external groups. Strong organizational skills, leading through influence and consensus-building, client-focused orientation, and commitment to providing quality services. Experience designing and delivering education to adult learners. Experience in event coordination and planning, particularly medical meetings/events.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior Project Manager at Alberta Health Services will lead and coordinate large healthcare projects from planning through evaluation and sustainability. The role also coaches teams and builds stakeholder partnerships across cancer care.
Requirements
Candidates need a master's degree in business administration or a related healthcare discipline, a project management or quality improvement certification, and at least 5 years of project management experience with 3 years leading healthcare projects. Strong leadership, advanced communication and high proficiency in MS Office, Project, Visio and SharePoint are also required.
Skills
- Project planning and execution
- Project monitoring and evaluation
- Team leadership and coaching
- Stakeholder relationship building
- Consensus building
- Quality improvement
- Written and verbal communication
- Presentation development
- Knowledge transfer and training
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Teams
- MS Access
- Infographic and video creation
- Adult education design
- Event coordination
- Cancer care knowledge
Categories
- Healthcare
- Government & Public Sector
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
Keywords
- project management
- senior project manager
- healthcare project management
- cancer care
- quality improvement
- program management
- stakeholder engagement
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Visio
- SharePoint
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Microsoft Teams
- MS Access
- Agile
- team leadership
- health services
- Alberta
- PMP
- hybrid work
Seniority
Senior
Licences and certifications
- Quality improvement certification
Tools
- MS Project
- Visio
- SharePoint
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Teams
- MS Access
Languages
- English
Fields of study
- Business administration
- Healthcare