Position: Project Control Officer
Location: Toronto, ON
Job ID#: RQ10785
Duration: 16 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Project Control Officer to support project and program delivery through planning, coordination,
reporting, risk management, and stakeholder engagement activities. The
successful candidate will work closely with Managers, Project Managers, and
project teams to ensure effective project execution, governance, documentation,
and reporting.
This role requires strong project coordination expertise, experience supporting multiple project initiatives, and the ability to maintain project controls, dashboards, schedules, and documentation repositories in a structured environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide
assistance to Managers, Project Managers, and project teams in
coordinating, planning, communicating, and executing project deliverables.
- Manage
project work plans, tracking activities, analytics, and reporting for
project execution.
- Create
and maintain management dashboards and executive-level summaries.
- Support
workflow management, including ticket tracking and risk/issue management
processes.
- Collaborate
with multiple stakeholder groups to gather project updates and maintain
project budgets, progress reports, action items, and risk logs.
- Work
closely with Project Managers to provide status updates, escalate issues,
identify risks, and coordinate project documentation.
- Develop
project status reports and maintain reporting and status tracking logs.
- Schedule
and facilitate project meetings.
- Monitor
project document repositories and ensure documentation is reviewed,
maintained, and current.
- Support
project activities using established project methodologies, including
Waterfall and Agile approaches throughout the Software Development Life
Cycle (SDLC).
Required Qualifications
Core Experience
- 7–10
years of experience coordinating projects.
- Experience
collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintain project
budgeting, progress reporting, action items, and risk management updates.
- Experience
supporting Managers and Project Managers with project coordination, issue
escalation, risk identification, and document management.
- Demonstrated
experience supporting multiple Project Managers and critical projects
involving mainframe or legacy systems.
- Experience
developing project status reports and maintaining reporting logs.
- Experience
scheduling and facilitating meetings.
- Experience
monitoring and maintaining project document repositories.
Project Management Skills
- Demonstrated
experience using project management tools such as MS Project, Planview, or
similar platforms.
- Strong
understanding of project management principles, including:
- Project
planning
- Scope
management
- Risk
management
- Cost
management
- Quality
management
- Stakeholder
and participant roles
Additional Skills
- Strong
analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent
verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Proven
critical thinking and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Strong
listening skills with the ability to facilitate issue resolution.
- Effective
stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
- Strong
facilitation and negotiation skills.
- Excellent
customer service skills, diplomacy, and professionalism.
- Highly
organized with strong multitasking abilities and attention to detail.
- Ability
to thrive in deadline-driven environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience
working with SCRUM teams.
- Experience
supporting projects involving mainframe or legacy technologies.
- Previous
public sector experience supporting mainframe or legacy system
initiatives.
About Symbiotic Digital.
Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve
customers in two ways, we provide:
- Digital
Experts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results
- Recruitment:
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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.
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