Our client, the Bank of Canada has a 3 year hybrid remote contract opportunity for a Senior Project Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain fit-for-purpose program and project governance, including reporting cadences,
decision and approval pathways, and governance forums, in alignment with Bank standards
- Develop and maintain an integrated program plan consolidating work across multiple workstreams and
project teams, including schedules, milestones, resource requirements, interdependencies, critical
decisions, and delivery commitments
- Prepare concise status reports, decision-ready executive dashboards, performance measures, and
briefing materials by consolidating and validating inputs from workstream and project leads
- Maintain and monitor program and project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, actions,
and change requests, identifying items requiring escalation and coordinating appropriate follow-up
- Coordinate governance forums and reviews, including preparing agendas, decision-ready briefing
materials, documenting decisions and actions, and ensuring unresolved items are escalated and followed
through to completion
- Support work intake, prioritization, sequencing and capacity planning to ensure projects and work
packages align with program objectives and outcomes
- Establish and maintain program-level performance reporting that links objectives and outcomes to
initiatives, work packages, milestones, and performance measures, while identifying coverage gaps,
delivery risks, and areas requiring management attention.
- Engage project leads, stakeholders, clients, and business partners to establish and maintain alignment on
scope, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and reporting expectations
- Ensure program and project documentation, approvals, deliverables, and closeout records are complete,
current, and maintained in accordance with organizational standards and policies
- Related activities and deliverables, as required
i. Education and Certifications
- University degree or college diploma in project management, business administration or
information technology
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Certification or formal training in Agile delivery, program or portfolio management, or
business analysis
ii. Relevant Experience
- A minimum of ten (10) years of recent demonstrated experience delivering complex technology, cyber security, or enterprise transformation programs and projects
- A minimum of five (5) years of recent demonstrated experience establishing and supporting
program and project governance for complex, multi-workstream initiatives, including
governance forums, integrated planning, executive reporting, risk and dependency
management, decision tracking, and change control
- A minimum of five (5) years of recent demonstrated experience coordinating the delivery of
complex programs across multiple workstreams and project teams, including managing
cross-functional dependencies, aligning stakeholders, and coordinating activities, priorities,
and timelines
iii. Technical Skills
- Demonstrated experience applying PMBOK principles and predictive, Agile, or hybrid
delivery methodologies to program and project governance
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain integrated program plans that consolidate
multiple workstreams and project plans, including milestones, resource requirements,
sequencing, interdependencies, and delivery commitments.
- Demonstrated ability to develop decision-ready executive dashboards, status reports,
performance measures, and briefing materials that provide clear visibility into program
performance, delivery risks, key decisions, and areas requiring management attention.
- Demonstrated ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all organizational levels,
including senior management, business stakeholders, and technical teams, and to translate
complex delivery information into clear recommendations and concise reporting for
technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and SharePoint, or
equivalent tools, to support integrated planning, governance, document management, and
reporting
