Job Title : GOAPRDJP00000541 - Project Manager (IT) - Intermediate
Work Location : Edmonton, Alberta, CAN, T6H 5T6, Remote
Estimated Start Date : 14 / 03 / 2025
Estimated End Date : 31 / 03 / 2026
#Business Days : 264.00
Estimated Hours per Day : 7.25
Maximum Duration of Extension : 06 Months
Note : This resource will primarily work remotely; however, the resource may be required to attend meetings or work sessions in office on reasonable notice from the Province. At the time of providing such notice, the Province will advise of the expected duration of any such meetings or work sessions. However, time to travel and any associated expenses to and from Edmonton and/or travel within Alberta will be at no cost to the Province.
Project Name :
- Cybersecurity Vulnerability Mitigation Program
- SharePoint 2016 migration to SPOs
Scope :
Project #1 : SharePoint 2016 migration to SPOs
- The project team is planning to upgrade from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint Online for the Government of Alberta (GoA). Some of the tasks but not limited to:
- Meeting with business Migration Leads to explain the use of the Migration Assistance Planner (MAP) tool.
- The Collaboration and Content Management Services (CCS) team will perform all move, add, and change activities associated with the SharePoint sites, and move the content.
- Ministry partners will assess the current SharePoint site inventory and determine its end state.
- CCS will assess sites with exceptions and create plans to transition them after the exceptions are handled.
- CCS will retire the SharePoint 2016 infrastructure after the migration.
Project #2 : Cybersecurity Vulnerability Mitigation Program :
- This project will reduce the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of GoA computer servers, by ensuring that MS-Servers that are at or near the end of life for support have been upgraded to a newer version of MS-Server. Some of the tasks but not limited to:
- Scheduled with the various Service Owners to obtain planned start/end dates for server upgrades and/or decommissioning.
- Follow up meetings to confirm timelines will be scheduled.
- Completion of the upgrades.
Duties :
- 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.
- 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.
Eligibility and Application Steps
If you are enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity, we kindly request you to provide the following documents via E-mail.
Without mandatory documents, we cannot submit a candidate.
- Updated Resume in word format (Mandatory)
- Skills Matrix and References (Mandatory)
- Expected hourly rate (Mandatory)
- LinkedIn ID (Mandatory)
Please only apply if you meet the qualifications mentioned above.
Qualification: Bachelor Degree Job Related Sector(s) Project Manager - Leader Experience