Project Manager - Ottawa, Canada - CDA-AMC

CDA-AMC

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Ottawa, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Status:
Full-time, 1 year, temporary

Location:
Ottawa Ontario (hybrid)

Closing date:
May 30, 2024

Salary range:
$67,000 to $84,000 per year

CADTH is Canada's drug and health technology agency. We're a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Ottawa, with a satellite office in Toronto.

We're funded by Canada's federal, provincial, and territorial governments, with the exception of Quebec, to provide independent information and advice to the country's publicly funded health care systems.

Health administrators and policy experts rely on CADTH to inform their decisions about the funding and appropriate use of the drugs, devices, and services used to prevent, diagnose, and treat medical conditions.

CADTH is proud to be a 2024 National Capital Region Top Employer.

This recognition celebrates CADTH's dedication to fostering a workplace environment that nurtures growth, innovation, and IDEA — inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

It reaffirms our ongoing efforts to create an outstanding workplace where our employees thrive and feel valued.

Primary Focus

The Project Manager is the logístical focal point for the administration, process execution and reporting of complex CADTH projects to ensure effective and efficient project delivery on time and within budget.

The Project Manager leads cross-functional project teams on multiple projects concurrently to fulfill project scope and meet customer commitments.

On any given day, the Project Manager will:
Project Onboarding and Planning

Prepares and develops the project scope, timelines, and budget commitment from the outset, including establishing a project charter, key milestones and deliverables, and advising on core project governance principles while soliciting input from the broader project team and project owner.
Works with the Project Management Office to develop project schedules and milestones for complex projects.
Prepares agendas, chairs project meetings, and communicates project deliverables and risks to all participants, ensuring milestones and project deadlines are followed.

Project Execution and Control

Manages and tracks all budgeting and resourcing activities related to the project, and promptly communicates and escalates to senior leadership and the project owner any and all emerging risks to the project timeline, scope, and budget. Where risks are identified, provide recommendations and solutions to ensure project deliverables remain on track.
Leads the management of each project, including assigning tasks to responsible project members, preparing agendas and chairing project meetings, communicating project deliverables and risks to all participants, and providing timely status updates to all key project partners, including CADTH leadership.
Collaborates with project and program owners to capture and document efficiencies to optimize project execution.
Assists leadership and the Project Management Office in new product and service initiatives by providing expert input on developing processes and translating them into executable schedules.
Prepares and delivers status updates on an agreed-upon and regular basis with all key project partners, including CADTH leadership

Project Closing and Reporting

Collects and compiles a summary of project feedback, learnings, takeaways, and areas of improvement to inform future project best practices and regularly connects with the Project Management Office to share these learnings.
Ensures project team sites are maintained with centralized visibility on performance metrics to support the Project Management Office and senior leaders with decision-making.
Prepares and validates reports on project key performance indicators required by funders, management staff and project teams, provides projections and monitors overages to enable and support management decisions on CADTH programs and services.
Ensures project teams' sites are populated accordingly to ensure centralized visibility for dashboarding and performance metric tracking

Is this the right role for you?

The Project Manager will likely have:

This position requires a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and a minimum of an undergraduate degree in Business Administration or Project Management, with 3+ years' experience as a project manager.

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Specific requirements also include:

- expertise in developing and maintaining project schedules
- significant experience with MS Project (MS Project Server) or other related project management software tools
- excellent organizational skills with a well-developed ability to plan and manage priorities;
- strong communication, interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- ability to proactively identify risks to the successful completion of projects, problem solve and recommend the best course of action appropriate to customer needs and CADTH'