Location
Ottawa, ON | Canada
Job description
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Ottawa, ON and/or Gatineau, QC
Remote: No
Business Unit: Advanced Technologies
Department 1: Defence
Department 2: Defence
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Calian is seeking a Senior Project Manager to assist our client with the facilitation of their project.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a database of interdependencies and departmental decisions on their handling;
- Contribute to the drafting of strategic documents, reports, and briefings;
- Give briefings on progress and concerns of projects;
- Coordinate and prepare documentation in response to scheduled and unscheduled reports, returns and observations to update management on project progress;
- Prepare draft evaluation plans, criteria, and evaluation schedules;
- Develop, plan, analyze, evaluate, and prioritizing deliverables and requirements;
- Define and document team objectives;
- Determine and obtain budgetary requirements, composition, roles, responsibilities, and terms of reference for the team;
- Plan, direct and control the activities of a project team within scheduled time and cost parameters;
- Monitor the design, implementation, and operations start-up of the project against established goals, objectives, and milestones;
- Meet with stakeholders and other project managers and state problems in a form capable of being solved;
- Prepare plans, charts, tables, and diagrams to assist in analyzing or displaying problems;
- Work with a variety of project management tools such as MS Project and Visio;
- Formulate and manage project plans by defining deliverables, identifying key milestones, reviewing project progress, and engaging in ongoing risk management;
- Ensure management staff is provided with timely and accurate project information and status updates;
- Conduct post project reviews/lessons learned;
- Contribute to the organization’s strategic and business planning initiatives;
- Contribute to the development of organizational vision and mission;
- Coordinate, draft and prepare for signature formal project documents and reports
Qualifications
- Must have or be eligible for a valid Canadian Security Clearance at a Secret level
- Must have an Undergraduate Diploma, from a recognized Canadian university, college, or the equivalent
- Must have an MBA, MPA, PMP, or other relevant Graduate degrees from a recognized Canadian university, college, or the equivalent
- Must have a minimum of 5 years experience at a supervisory level working in a project environment related to concept development, equipment requirements, organizational structure and design
- Must have co-authored a minimum of one statement of requirement (SOR) within the 10 years addressing one of the following: concept development, equipment requirements, organizational structure and design
- Must have been the main author within the last 10 years of: Strategic Context Document;
- Business Case Analysis; Project Charter; Request for Information (RFI); Request for Proposal (RFP); and/or Responses to RFI/RFP
- Must have experience working in, or with, a defence related environment; such as the Department of National Defence (DND) / Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) / Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED-C), Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), academia, advisory body, or defence industry, within the last 10 years
- Must have any of the following Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) qualifications relevant to the subject matter (or acceptable equivalency): Joint Command and Staff Program; Project Approval Course Complex Project and Procurement Leadership Certificate
Additional Requirements
- May be required to travel outside the NCR
- Must be available to work outside normal offices hours throughout the duration of the contract.
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Calian values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. Calian is committed to being responsive to the diverse needs of its members, employees, and others, by striving to prevent and remove systemic barriers. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply, and we welcome applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and others who may contribute to the diversity of our organization. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates under consideration will be contacted. We will provide accommodations during the recruitment process upon request.
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