Senior IT Project Manager

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We are looking for
Senior IT Project Manager
- Remote / Telecommute
for our client in
Edmonton, AB
Job Title: Senior IT Project Manager - Remote / Telecommute
Job Location: Edmonton, AB
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:

• The Senior IT Project Manager will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of multiple concurrent IT and digital health projects.
• This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, governance oversight, and experience delivering complex healthcare initiatives while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and ministry expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, initiation, execution, monitoring, and closure of multiple concurrent IT and digital health projects.
• Develop and maintain project charters, project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, and scope statements.
• Manage project resources, dependencies, deliverables, timelines, and budgets.
• Establish and maintain project governance structures, including steering committees, working groups, and decision-making pathways.
• Prepare, update, and maintain project artifacts such as RAID logs, work plans, status reports, and dashboards.
• Support project start-up activities, including SharePoint site setup, project calendars, contact lists, and collaboration tools.
• Ensure alignment with ministry standards, enterprise architecture, and PMO methodologies.
• Coordinate and facilitate project meetings, including agendas, materials, minutes, and action tracking.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal teams, vendors, external partners, and healthcare stakeholders.
• Communicate project progress, decisions, risks, and issues to sponsors, senior leadership, and governance groups.
• Identify, anticipate, and escalate risks, resistance, and delivery challenges with recommended mitigation strategies.
• Support change management and communication planning for impacted stakeholders.
• Produce high-quality reports, presentations, and briefing materials for senior and executive leadership.
• Monitor and report project status against objectives, deliverables, milestones, budget, and resource utilization.
• Maintain accurate documentation of decisions, issues, actions, and change requests.
• Ensure compliance with approved governance frameworks, methodologies, and health information requirements.
• Conduct post-project assessments, capture lessons learned, and recommend process improvements.

Requirement/Must Have:

• Demonstrated experience developing integrated plans, portfolio reporting, and executive-level project communications.
• Proven experience leading healthcare portfolios or initiatives of similar size and complexity.
• Experience supporting clients in executing strategies involving technology, process improvement, organizational design, and IT operations.
• Strong experience developing project documentation for strategic, business improvement, and IT initiatives.
• Extensive experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including public-sector users.
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and align solutions to product vision and user needs.
• Senior leadership experience defining project scope, goals, roadmaps, governance models, briefing notes, and business cases.
• Strong experience leading project governance, change management, and communication activities.

Experience:

• Extensive experience managing large-scale IT and healthcare-related projects.
• Proven success delivering complex initiatives within public sector or regulated environments.

Should Have:

• Experience with data integration between clinical applications in the Canadian eHealth environment.
• Experience serving as a Change Manager on large, complex custom software development projects.
• Experience analyzing, developing, and integrating complex IT systems.
• Ability to translate complex business questions into effective analytical and technical solutions.

Skills:

• Project and portfolio management.
• Stakeholder engagement and executive communication.
• Governance, risk, and change management.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualification And Education:

• Relevant degree in Information Technology, Business, Healthcare Administration, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.