The IBM – Public Sector Resourcing Team is seeking a Project Management Specialist – Cyber Security for a contract opportunity in the Ottawa area.

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Duration: 12 months, renewable

Role description:

The consultant will be responsible for the following:

- Coordinate and support the delivery of multiple CTS, Cyber Security, and ITS projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, security requirements, and governance standards

- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and resource assignments to ensure project objectives are achieved

- Manage projects through all lifecycle phases, ensuring milestones, and targets are met

- Monitor and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions, implementing corrective actions as required

- Coordinate and administer project change requests in accordance with approved governance processes

- Prepare and maintain project status reports, dashboards, and performance metrics, providing regular updates to stakeholders and senior management

- Coordinate with respective team leaders to identify resource requirements, assign resources, and optimize capacity to support the successful delivery of project objectives and timelines

- Engage stakeholders, clients, and business partners to gather requirements, resolve issues, and support successful project outcomes

- Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog management activities

- Ensure all project deliverables, documentation, approvals, and closeout activities are completed in compliance with organizational standards and policies

- Coordinate release management activities, ensuring releases are planned, documented, reviewed, approved, and implemented in accordance with established change management requirements





- Support the coordination and management of dependencies, risks, reporting, and delivery activities across multiple workstreams, including infrastructure, cyber security, and strategic technology initiatives

- Related activities and deliverables, as required

Mandatory Skills:

1. Canadian Federal Government Security Clearance – Reliability Status and above

2. Education and Certifications

- University degree or college diploma in information technology, project management, business administration or a related field

1. Relevant Experience:

- A minimum of ten (10) years of recent demonstrated work experience delivering IT infrastructure, network security, cyber security, or technology transformation
- A minimum of five (5) years of recent demonstrated work experience as a Senior Project Management Specialist overseeing a project for the definition and implementation of infrastructure modernization, cyber security, and/or technology transformation, in a complex workplace

- Demonstrated experience engaging and influencing stakeholders at all organizational levels, including senior management, business stakeholders, and technical teams, while effectively communicating complex technical and business information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Technical Skills

- Demonstrated knowledge and application of PMBOK project management principles, processes, tools, and methodologies throughout the project lifecycle.

- Demonstrated proficiency in analyzing project risks, issues, dependencies, and impacts, and developing data-driven recommendations to support project objectives and governance decisions.

Nice to have Skills:

- PMP or PRINCE 2 Certification

- Cyber Security Certification

We wish to thank all applicants for applying for this position, however, only candidates selected for prelim interviews will be contacted.

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📌 Project Management Specialist – Cyber Security (Ottawa)
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