Description

Scope

The Procurement Services branch in Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction is responsible for Government of Alberta's (GoA) mandate for productive, open and transparent procurement. The Branch allows all GoA ministries to meet program goals by leading competitive procurements, in alignment with trade agreements and provincial legislation. The GoA is redesigning the Alberta Purchasing Connection (APC) to enhance the purchaser and supplier experience of this online platform.

The APC is leveraged by all purchasers within the Alberta public sector and the supplier community to post, search and respond to procurement opportunities within the province.

The Project

Manager will be involved with the APC modernization project which is expected to launch in spring of 2023. Hyper-care will continue for 6 months following the launch. The APC modernization project involves a large number and wide range of stakeholders. Currently the APC has approximately 28,000 registered suppliers and 800 public sector buyers.

Description

- Responsible for the coordination and completion of IT projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project.

Duties

- 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.

📌 GOAPR245 - Project Manager (IT) - Intermediate (Canada)
🏢 Omega solutions
📍 Canada