Project Manager (18 Month Contract)
Location: Remote/Vancouver, BC
Staffing Placement Opportunity
The scope of work includes but is not limited to:
- Use initiative, independent thinking and creative problem-solving to develop and implement project plans and achieve successful project completion;
- Develop project timeline and milestones, identify critical path tasks and project dependencies;
- Lead project meetings, facilitate open discussion, and ensure that meeting outputs (actions and agreements) are clearly documented;
- Lead work and resource allocation planning and follow up for task completion;
- Maintain all project documentation, e.g., charters, contracts and budgets;
- Ensure risks are assessed, logged, monitored and tracked;
- Manage triggered risks and emergent issues and facilitate timely resolution;
- Liaise with Vendor resources (Project Manager, Business Analysts, Consultants);
- Liaise with client Technical Services resources for delivery of infrastructure, and networking support;
- Monitor project budget including invoice tracking, forecasting and financial reporting;
- Provide regular status reports and project gate reviews according to the Project Quality and Transformation Office project management methodology;
- Ensure project materials uploaded to Confluence and available to project team members and thereafter to operational and support team members who will assume responsibility after the project go live
Deliverables to include, but not limited to:
- Project Charter;
- Project Milestone Schedule;
- Monthly PQTO status reports;
- Steering Committee Agendas, Presentations and Minutes ;
- Risk and Issue Logs;
- Project Decision Log;
Skills and Experience
- Knowledge of project delivery lifecycle and project gating;
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects;
- Knowledge of data archival strategies and solutions; and
- Demonstrated ability to work directly and effectively with technical teams and resources (architecture, security, integration, network and provisioning) to achieve project outcomes.
Note; This job opportunity is with a Microserve client. This position will be remote with onsite work as required by the client.