Program Manager, Ubc-fortisbc - Vancouver, Canada - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

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Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level C

Job Title

Program Manager, UBC-FortisBC

Department

Senior Management Research | Research Group | Merida Labs | Department Mechanical Engineering | Faculty of Applied Science

Compensation Range

$6, $9,418.83 CAD Monthly

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Posting End Date

December 17, 2023

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Job End Date

Dec 31, 2025

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students.

Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

UBC Vancouver and FortisBC are entering a multi-year collaboration agreement to carry out joint work on cutting edge areas of interest in the space of hydrogen technologies.

Under the umbrella of this agreement, the Program Manager will be the main operational point of contact for all projects funded under UBC-FortisBC research agreements across all faculties at the Vancouver campus.

The position provides strategic consultation and operational support to both FortisBC and UBC's Principal Investigators on scoping and defining projects that will have a high degree of complexity, influence and impact.

The Program Manager will manage and support the entire operational lifecycle of small, medium scale or complex projects and associated knowledge translation requirements.

This includes supporting the creation of shared objectives and associated workplans, identifying appropriate resources needed, assembling project teams and providing oversight to ensure timely completion of project milestones.

This is a hands-on position and the Program Manager is expected to have strong technical engineering and project management skills and be intimately involved in the execution of joint projects.

The position will be based at the UBC Vancouver campus.

The position supports projects from inception to completion, including but not limited to:

Supporting the FortisBC innovation portfolio by defining research themes, creating new research avenues, facilitating workshops, collecting data and facilitating project oversight and communications
Developing strategic workplans including project scope, approach, budget, schedule, and performance measures for all collaborative research projects;
Developing proposals to secure grants, matching funding opportunities and providing budget oversight across projects
Coordinating program reviews; identifying and implementing best practices
Assessing project risks and developing mitigation strategies
Coordinating and directing work done by campus operations (UBC Energy and Water Services), suppliers, consultants and/or subcontractors
Gathering data and information for joint communications and media relations

Organizational Status

Works within the Research & Partnerships team in the Faculty of Applied Science.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Research, the Program Manager provides consultation, training and support to faculty and staff. Liaises with the broader research community from various faculties and research groups, industry professionals and stakeholders. During the initial 12-18 months, the PM will also be reporting to one of theproject leaders, Associate Dean. Walter Mérida.

Work Performed

Responsible, in consultation with all parties, and accountable for the overall ideation, planning and management of research and demonstration projects under the UBC-FortisBC research agreement(s)
Serves as the main point of contact for UBC Campus Operations enabling complex technology / system demonstration initiatives aligned with UBC's CampusasaLiving-Lab approach
Subject matter expert on complete research project life cycle: monitoring project scope, schedule, budget and other key aspects to ensure successful project delivery
Provides technical leadership in the development of projects including analysis, design and technical requirements, configuration, implementation, testing, training and documentation for projects
Consults and provides specialist advice on key opportunities for innovation, collaboration and improvement to proposed and existing projects;
Follows agile project management while being able to assess and pivot based on changing objectives and