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Project Management Specialist
- Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Contract
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- Working hours
- 37.5 hours per week
- Posting language
- English
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Project Management Specialist – Regulatory Program Implementation
Location: Hybrid (Ottawa, ON - minimum 12 days on-site per month; fully remote not accepted)
Type: Contract, November 2026 – December 2027 (option to extend 12 months)
Clearance: Must be eligible to obtain Reliability Status (minimum 5 years verifiable personal history)
Language: English required
About The Role
We're seeking a Project Management Specialist to lead implementation of a new regulatory program for a large Canadian financial institution, coordinating delivery across policy, operations, and technology workstreams. This is a high-visibility PM role covering integrated planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and delivery oversight for a large, complex, multi-workstream initiative.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide project management expertise across all project activities, working with internal and external stakeholders, project teams, and groups using proven PM best practices and methodologies
- Coordinate the overall implementation of a new regulatory program, including developing, maintaining, and evolving integrated work plans, schedules, and delivery strategies
- Drive planning and execution of project workstreams across policy, operations, and technology
- Coordinate technology workstream activities and work closely with the IT Program Lead during planning, solution selection, configuration, implementation, and transition to operational support
- Identify, monitor, and mitigate project risks, issues, and interdependencies while delivering scope and work plans within established quality standards and timelines
- Shape delivery reporting, performance indicators, and escalation mechanisms to support timely decision-making
- Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships to proactively identify delivery risks and mitigation strategies
- Provide regular project status updates to senior management and/or the sponsor/client
- Ensure all project deliverables, documentation, and processes are completed
- Support go-live readiness activities and implementation hand-offs, ensuring operational, supervisory, and technical readiness
- Related activities and deliverables, as required
- University degree or college diploma in information technology, project management, or business analysis
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification
- Minimum 10 years of demonstrated experience contributing to large, complex, multi-year projects involving 40+ project team members, managing multiple concurrent initiatives across policy, business process, operational, and technology domains
- Minimum 4 years of recent demonstrated project management experience supporting complex business and technology initiatives
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience delivering strategic projects using Agile or hybrid (Agile/Waterfall) delivery methodologies
- Demonstrated experience identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating project risks, issues, dependencies, and interdependencies
- Demonstrated experience producing clear, concise, professional documentation for senior leadership and technical audiences
- Demonstrated experience facilitating workshops, meetings, and discussions to achieve consensus and advance project objectives
- Demonstrated experience developing, maintaining, and managing integrated project plans, schedules, dependencies, and delivery roadmaps across multiple workstreams
- Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud-based solutions and services, gained through supporting or participating in Azure technology implementation projects
- Reliability Status security clearance
- Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
- Hybrid work (minimum 12 days on-site per month in Ottawa)
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead implementation of a new regulatory program, coordinating policy, operations, and technology workstreams through integrated planning, delivery oversight, and stakeholder engagement. Manage risks, issues, dependencies, reporting, documentation, and go-live readiness, including coordination with the IT Program Lead and transition to operational support.
Requirements
Requires a university degree or college diploma in information technology, project management, or business analysis, along with PMP certification and at least 10 years of experience on large, complex projects. Candidates must also have recent project management experience, Agile or hybrid delivery experience, strong risk and planning capabilities, and knowledge of Microsoft Azure implementation projects.
Skills
- Project Management
- Regulatory Program Implementation
- Integrated Project Planning
- Schedule Management
- Risk Management
- Issue and Dependency Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Agile Delivery
- Hybrid Delivery Methodologies
- Technology Implementation
- Microsoft Azure
- Workshop Facilitation
- Executive Reporting
- Delivery Oversight
- Go-Live Readiness
- PMP Certification
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Technology
- Finance & Accounting
- Consulting
Keywords
- Project Management
- Regulatory Program
- PMP
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Hybrid Delivery
- Microsoft Azure
- Cloud-Based Solutions
- Technology Implementation
- Integrated Project Plans
- Project Schedules
- Delivery Roadmaps
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Dependencies
- Interdependencies
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Policy
- Business Processes
- Operations
- Technology Workstreams
- Performance Indicators
- Escalation Mechanisms
- Senior Leadership Reporting
- Workshop Facilitation
- Go-Live Readiness
- Operational Support
- Reliability Status