IT Project Manager - Oshawa, Canada - Durham College

Durham College

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Oshawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About Durham College:

Durham College (DC) is leading the way as a post-secondary institution, offering an innovative and transformative student experience and hands-on learning opportunities.

With this focus top of mind for our students and our employees, DC is proud to be one of the fastest-growing colleges in the province and annually ranked as one of the GTA's Top 100 employers.

The college offers a wide range of market-driven programs across multiple disciplines, including culinary management, farming and horticulture, business, IT, construction and trades, science and technology, health care, engineering, social and community services, justice, media, art and design.

With a focus on experiential learning, DC graduates are known for having the skills and knowledge employers need. More than 104,000 alumni represent the college, both locally and around the world.

Serving the Durham Region and Northumberland County communities for over 50 years, with campuses in Oshawa and Whitby, the college offers over 12,500 full-time post-secondary and apprenticeship students access to more than 145 full-time post-secondary programs - including four honours bachelor degrees and nine apprenticeship programs.

Led by over 1,860 full
- and part-time staff, DC has an estimated annual economic impact of more than $913 million on Durham Region.

This Opportunity:

Durham College is seeking a contract IT Project Manager (PM) in the IT Services department.

Reporting to the Manager, IT Service Management and Governance, in the Office of the AVP of Information Technology, the Project Manager is responsible for overseeing IT project initiatives of IT Services.

This is a contract role from September 5th 2023 through March 31st months), with possibility of annual extension. This role works 30 hours per week, and will be paid $56.05 per hour plus applicable vacation pay.

The PM works closely with directors and managers in IT Services, as well as other project managers within Durham College, Ontario Tech and vendor teams to support projects, service requests, enhanced service requests and incidents, as needed.

The Project Manager partners with IT and business leadership and other key stakeholders to drive progress of IT-related projects based on predefined criteria, e.g., institutional strategic priorities.

The Project Manager is responsible for project management of selected IT projects.

The incumbent supports the IT project intake and portfolio processes to ensure projects are defined, tracked and communicated in a consistent and effective manner.

The incumbent plays a key role in supporting operational, project and portfolio related reporting, including generation of reports and related ticket and data analysis to support IT Services leaders with operational activities.

The PM will lead IT Service Management projects such as ticketing system upgrades, evolution of ticketing system dashboards, etc., and is expected to be a key support resource for users of the ticketing system.

The PM will also manage selected projects from IT infrastructure, audio-visual services, and system upgrades. Experience in this space would be regarded as an asset.

The incumbent will lead IT management change processes including change advisory board activities and provide support for users with their change records.

Required Skills:

Hourly Rate:
$56.05 per hour

Required Experience

Contract:
September March 2024