Senior Project Manager – App Mod Program

This one-year term position is for a Senior Project Manager within the OCIO's Program Delivery office. The role involves managing the full lifecycle of large, complex IT projects, including developing and overseeing project plans, schedules, resources, and budgets, as well as managing inter-project dependencies and stakeholder communication. A minimum of nine years of related experience and strong technical expertise in information technology project management are required.

• Manages complex enterprise-level projects with multiple large-scale functional areas to further develop and implement aspects of work related to information systems and business processes that involve the greater UBC community.
• Leads areas of responsibility including project management, Functional, Solution Architecture, Change Management, and User Experience and will be responsible to ensure consistent application of project management principles established within the Office of the CIO (OCIO).
• Provides senior-level expertise and direction into the approach for system development and deployment, package implementation, system scalability and performance, and University-wide systems integration.
• Maintains and manages risk, action, issue, and decision (RAID) logs.
• Leads and manages the definition of scope, sequencing, scheduling, and budgeting of the implementation plan with input and support from the workstream teams.
• Develops, maintains, and communicates an overall Implementation Plan, ensuring resource optimization.
• Manages procurement in collaboration with UBC Procurement and UBC Legal Counsel to develop compliant and effective procurement documentation, processes, and evaluation methods.
• Conducts post-implementation reviews to ensure continuous improvement and learning.
• Oversees deliverables associated with the Project Delivery Team
• monitoring for consistent and predictable system and tool performance.
• Collaborates with technical and other professionals on Enterprise Strategic Initiatives to share best practices and identify and resolve cross-program impacts.
• Initiates projects following appropriate project management methodology including gathering and defining comprehensive project requirements, ensuring strategic alignment, developing project charters, project plans, budgets, and schedules, determining staffing requirements, and forming cross-functional project teams.
• Defines and follows project management methods, procedures, and quality objectives, including metrics for assessing progress.
• Balances workload, and provides technical and analytical guidance and work direction to project team, including scheduling, assignment of work, review of project efforts, and removal of roadblocks that inhibit project success.
• Ensures that all team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively, and provides the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project performance.
• Assesses variances from the project plans, budgets, and schedules, develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within the specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives, and keeps management aware of the situation.
• Evaluates and ensure sponsor/client satisfaction at project completion.
• Drafts contracts and Service Level Agreements and manages RFIs/RFPs for evaluation, selection, and procurement of products and/or services from vendors.
• Identifies potential areas for improvement in current methodologies and provides coaching to project managers.
• Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors, and key clients.

• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion Preferred Qualifications
• Effectively facilitate groups to achieve appropriate outcome.
• Project Management Professional designation is an asset.
• Experience with preparing RFPs, and managing RFIs/RFPs for evaluation, selection, and procurement of products and/or services from vendors.
• Experience in change management, budget development, financial management, and risk management.
• Supervisory experience is an asset.
• Project experience in a higher-education environment, policy and regulatory compliance situations is an asset.
• Leadership mindset with a focus on mentoring and coaching team members
• Technical expertise and experience in Information technology project management of large scale, commercial, off-the- shelf (COTS) systems including related experience in managing systems development, enterprise architecture, and business process change as it applies to COTS and custom systems, data migration and systems integration.
• Ability to work independently and assume full responsibility for their decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to: Conduct needs analyses, plan, organize, manage, monitor, complete, and evaluate projects within allocated time and resources.
• Develop and deliver effective presentations and workshops.
• Identify, obtain, and effectively manage organizational resources (e.g., people, materials, assets, budgets).
• Build relationships, consult with customers and potential customers.
• Effectively manage multiple tasks and priorities, work in a fast-paced environment, and manage responsibilities and tasks to meet time sensitive, critical deadlines.
• Effective leadership, consulting, consensus building, conflict resolution, and negotiation and team-building skills are an asset.
• Conduct needs analyses, plan, organize, manage, monitor, complete, and evaluate projects within allocated time and resources.
• Intermediate knowledge of applications development methodologies, as well as development and implementation best practices, "rules of thumb", and benchmarks.
• An understanding of key trends and players in the IT industry.
• Collaboration - Identifies and improves communication to bring conflict within the team into the open and facilitate resolution.