Hiring: Senior IT Project Manager

Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Onsite (5 days per week in office)

Duration: July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027 (option to extend additional 6 months)

Hourly Rate: $95/hour - $120/hour (based on experience)

Client: Public Sector

Overview:

Reporting to the Director, 1GX Strategic and Operational Excellence, the Senior Project Manager is responsible for the coordination and completion of IT projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, takes minutes, records any risks into the register, and monitors and summarizes the progress of projects. Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding the status of projects.

The position is responsible for facilitating the decision-making process of executive management.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in managing a complex Procurement system project spanning over contract-to-pay, procure-to-pay, and source-to-contract processes.
• Experience in managing Complex Human Resources Information System (HRIS) project(s) adhering to the legislated policy and guidelines within Public Sector.
• Experience in Budgeting and Forecasting system projects spanning over the Fiscal Year lifecycle of financial activities preferably in an SAP environment.
• Experience in documenting briefing notes or similar project status reports to the Executive Steering Committees at Ministerial level.
• Proven track record of managing Project Resources efficiently to meet Project goals.
• Compile project charters and business/project plans to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each applicable project, to ensure business objectives and data integrity are achieved.
• Manage project(s) that will document business requirements, design and deliver IT solutions that are compliant with and contribute to the Ministries' enterprise architecture.
• Assist with the development of recommendations including providing details of resource requirements, dependencies, interdependencies, policy implications pertaining to internal/external influences and the methodology to be applied.
• Produce and package deliverables for presentation to various internal support teams, steering committee, and other project stakeholders.
• Manage multiple projects, project resources and project governance.
• Work with project sponsors to ensure that effective project communication exists through the duration of the project including escalation of risks as required.
• Take responsibility for ongoing client satisfaction - manage peer-level client relationships and overcome hurdles to ensure win-win solutions.
• Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan that clearly states the project's objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits and budget.
• Work with project sponsors and the project management office to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.
• Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget and resources and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks.
• Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.
• Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks.
• Develop, as required, related requirements documentation.
• In collaboration with project sponsors, assess whether the project achieved stated outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement for future similar projects.
• Provide leadership and assistance to business and project teams that require change management and communication support.
• Work within the standards defined by the project management office and in the absence of standards work with the project management office to define new standards.

Must Haves:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in IT, Computer Science, Math or Engineering or equivalent experience.

Work Experience:

• 6 years of Experience defining project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders
• 6 years of Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, status reports, risk logs, project closures and dashboards.
• 6 years of Experience in a project management role.
• 6 years of Experience managing multiple projects concurrently.
• 4 years of Experience developing and maintaining positive stakeholder relationships across organizations including executive level
• 4 years of Experience exercising resourcefulness when making recommendations on highly technical or complex business issues without formal guidelines or precedents.
• 4 years of Experience with various software development methodologies (i.e. agile, waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• 4 years of Experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex custom software project(s) (where the software is developed in house specifically for the organization) in an environment of similar size and complexity of the Government of Alberta.
• 4 years of Experience working in an enterprise architect environment.
• 4 years of Experience working in or for the public sector.
• 4 years of Senior leadership experience working in the public sector (ideally Canada) with a sound knowledge of its stakeholders, business functions and informational requirements.
• 4 years of Experience of successfully implementing IT solutions in an environment with project resources across multiple teams or organizations.

Nice to Have

• Currently active PMP or PGMP Certification as issued by the Project Management Institute or equivalent (copy required)

Soft Skills:

• Ability to learn quickly, problem solve/troubleshoot, work independently and in a team.
• Ability to manage stress and conflict.
• Ability to work closely with key stakeholders to communicate progress.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups.
• Available to lead frequent (daily) face-to-face meetings with clients and technical teams.

We appreciate all interest; however, only candidates whose experience fully meets the posted requirements will be considered.

Interested?

If you meet the above criteria apply now! Please send your resume via Isarta for immediate consideration.

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