Senior Project Manager

Role Responsibilities

Do you have the perseverance to accomplish anything you put your mind to? Then join a team that values people and the work they do. Our fast-paced environment is challenging yet rewarding and offers lots of variety.

1GX ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Program branch is looking for a Senior Project Manager. This position reports to the Manager, 1GX PMO Excellence.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• Developing and implementing project management standards, processes, and best practices to support 1GX PMO operations and enhance project delivery.
• Providing leadership for large and complex 1GX projects, including defining scope, managing resources, monitoring progress, mitigating risks, and ensuring alignment with GoA policies and standards.
• Offering expert advice and mentorship to management and junior team members, addressing escalated issues, drafting responses, and driving process improvements.
• Engaging and collaborating with stakeholders, internal teams, and external partners to ensure business needs are met and impacts of decisions are effectively managed.
• Coordinating project documentation, approvals, and transition processes, ensuring successful implementation and post-project reviews.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships through participation in committees, working groups, and cross-division collaborations to align and deliver on shared goals.

To be successful in this position, you will demonstrate:

• Ability to understand the business needs of various stakeholders which may be internal or external to government. 
• Ability to anticipate issues and develop efficient and effective approach to resolve issues. 
• Ability to utilize an agile approach to drive change management initiatives in a timely manner.

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

• Agility: Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, manage resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.
• Drive for Results: Knowing what outcomes are important and maximizing resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organization, while maintaining accountability to each other and external stakeholders. 
• Develop Networks: Proactively building networks, connecting, and building trust in relationships with different stakeholders. 
• Systems Thinking: The work done within the APS is part of a larger integrated and inter-related environment. It is important to know that work done in one part of the APS impacts a variety of other groups/projects inside and outside the APS. Systems thinking allows us to keep broader impacts and connections in mind.
• Creative Problem Solving: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• University degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Technology or a related field. 
• Four (4) years of related progressively responsible experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.

Equivalencies:

• A related two-year diploma in a related field from a recognized postsecondary institution and six (6) years related experience; or
• A related one-year certificate from a recognized post-secondary institution and seven (7) years related experience.
• Eight (8) years of related experience.

Assets:

• Experience supporting an Enterprise Resource Planning project such as SAP.
• Experience supporting Human Capital Management, Supply Chain Management, and Financial and Treasury Management SAP projects.
• Experience supporting other SAP projects such as Data Analytics, Information Lifecycle Management, and Vendor Invoice Management.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Term of Employment: Temporary, Full-time position    

Hours of Work: 7.25 hours daily / 36.25 weekly – Monday to Friday
 
Location: Terrace Building | 9515 – 107 Street | Edmonton, AB | T5K 2C1|

Final candidates may be required to undergo a security screening.

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

Applicants are advised to provide a cover letter summarizing information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.

Additional Information:
In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Also, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time, or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages- working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Pension plans:
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.