- Contract duration - 6 months. Possibility of extension
- Onsite 5 days a week in Winnipeg
- Looking for a PM with public sector experience and experience managing application development projects in public sector.
The client is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to manage projects throughout their entire lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, control, and closeout. The Project Manager will ensure projects meet approved objectives, scope, budget, schedule, quality standards, and stakeholder expectations.
The candidate must be proficient in multiple project management methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid, and be able to coordinate project teams, consultants, contractors, vendors, and stakeholders while adhering to the client's policies, procedures.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Initiation and Planning
- Communicate regularly with project owners, teams, consultants, service providers, and client representatives.
- Coordinate project activities, resources, deliverables, and stakeholder expectations.
- Develop project plans and manage scope, risks, issues, and opportunities.
- Maintain project documentation and records within the client's project management systems.
- Review and manage contract changes in accordance with established approval processes.
- Budget and Schedule Management
- Develop, maintain, and update detailed project schedules, integrating capital and operating activities.
- Monitor project progress against approved timelines, milestones, and budgets.
- Track actual and forecasted monthly expenditures and cash flow using the client's reporting systems.
- Provide regular budget and schedule updates to the designated client manager.
- Identify potential cost increases, delays, and other variances, and recommend corrective actions.
- Procurement and Contract Management
- Work with consultants and internal and external stakeholders to define project requirements.
- Develop detailed design documents, specifications, and tender-ready documentation.
- Prepare procurement plans in accordance with the client's policies and obligations.
- Support tendering, evaluation, vendor selection, contract negotiation, and contract awards.
- Review and manage change orders, submitted costs, and contract modifications.
- Ensure compliance with applicable federal, provincial, and municipal legislation and regulations.
- Project Execution, Monitoring, and Control
- Lead project delivery and manage service providers, contractors, consultants, and project teams.
- Control project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, communications, and stakeholder engagement.
- Manage scope changes through project charters and change order processes.
- Review and process progress claims, monitor expenditures, and coordinate final payments and holdback releases.
- Navigate the client's internal approval processes.
- Conduct project startup meetings, attend biweekly client meetings, and provide regular status reports.
- Monitor project risks and opportunities, resolve issues, and communicate recommendations to stakeholders and management.
- Oversee quality assurance and control, including mock-up reviews, deficiency assessments, and compliance with contractual requirements.
- Coordinate staff training for newly implemented systems and technologies.
- Maintain accurate project data and documentation within the client's information management systems.
- Project Closeout
- Conduct project closeout reviews and complete final administrative and contractual activities.
- Compile and verify project documentation, including as-built documents, training manuals, and other required records.
- Coordinate the transfer of completed projects to operational teams.
- Facilitate lessons-learned sessions with stakeholders to identify improvements for future projects.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- The candidate must possess the following qualifications and skills:
- Experience: Minimum of 10 years managing Information Technology projects.
- Certification: Valid Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE2 Practitioner certification
By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
· the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
· licensure and certification requirements;
· office location and other geographic considerations; and
· other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).
