Client: Government of Alberta – Technology & Innovation

Location: Edmonton, AB / Primarily Remote within Canada

Work Arrangement: Remote; up to 15% onsite in Edmonton as required

Contract: Up to 12-month extension term

Hours: 7.25 hours/day, 36.25 hours/week

Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:15 AM–4:30 PM Alberta Time

Positions: 1

Requisition: Not specified in the provided posting

Travel: Up to 15%; travel time/expenses to Edmonton are at the resource/supplier's cost

Work Location Requirement: Work must be performed within Canada.

Project Overview

The Province is seeking a Project Manager to provide delivery oversight and coordination across multiple concurrent, high-priority initiatives, including:

- Cybersecurity Vulnerability Mitigation / Legacy Server Remediation
- SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008/2012 remediation

- Windows Server 2016 remediation

- Risk mitigation, governance and cross-project coordination

- SharePoint Online Migration

- Remaining SharePoint 2016 migrations and decommissioning

- Delivery of 5 outstanding intranets

- Extranet migration and legacy server replacement

- Management of dependencies and access

- Transition of 22 Power Apps replacing SharePoint 2016 customizations to operations.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage IT projects from initiation through completion

- Develop project charters, business cases, project plans, schedules and status reports

- Manage scope, timelines, resources, budgets, risks, issues and dependencies

- Coordinate multiple projects and project teams concurrently

- Manage vendors, stakeholders, sponsors and cross-departmental partners

- Develop governance materials and executive/steering committee reports

- Track milestones, deliverables, budget and project performance

- Identify and escalate risks/issues and implement corrective actions

- Support requirements documentation and IT solution delivery

- Coordinate project dependencies and interdependencies

- Support change management and communication activities





- Provide project leadership, stakeholder communication and client relationship management

- Support transition planning and post-project outcome assessment

- Leverage Microsoft applications, collaboration tools and AI to improve reporting and communication.

Requirements

Mandatory Qualifications

- 5+ years developing project deliverables such as project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs, project closures and dashboards

- 5+ years in a Project Management role

- 4+ years managing multiple projects concurrently

- 3+ years successfully implementing IT solutions involving resources across multiple teams/organizations

- 3+ years as Project Manager on large, complex, custom software development projects

- 3+ years working with Information Management and Cybersecurity policies, directives and guidelines

- Active PMP or PGMP certification issued by PMI or equivalent.

Education

One of the following
- University graduation in Business, Management or related discipline + 4 years PM experience, OR

- 2-year diploma in Business, Management or related discipline + 6 years PM experience, OR

- 1-year certificate in Business, Management or related discipline + 7 years PM experience, OR

- 8 years of Project Management experience.

Nice-to-Have Experience

- 3+ years coordinating project dependencies and plans

- 4+ years coordinating government/vendor-wide IM/IT initiatives

- 5+ years leading meetings with stakeholders at all levels

- 3+ years leading change management and communication planning

- 3+ years overseeing server and network infrastructure projects

- 3+ years overseeing SharePoint migrations

- 3+ years working with Government of Alberta or a Canadian public-sector organization of similar size and complexity.

Other Requirements

- Conflict-of-interest attestation required

- Criminal record check required at no cost to the Province

- Three skilled references must be provided

- Mandatory training may include POPA, ATIA, Security/Cybersecurity, Information Management and Respect in the Workplace.

📌 Project Manager (IT) (Edmonton)
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📍 Edmonton