Role: Senior Project Manager

Location: Vancouver, CA

Type: Contract

Job Duties:

• This position leads projects of high complexity and may lead multiple projects concurrently in accordance with industry best practices.
• Project team may include matrixed resources from across the company and vendor resources.
• Delivery methods include both Agile and Waterfall
• Accountable for ensuring that deliverables from business and technology partners are produced and approved according to multiple project schedules. This includes requirement documents, functional and technical design documents, test plans, etc.
• Identifies and manages project risks and dependencies and raises awareness around projects across the portfolio.
• Responsible for developing, refining, and monitoring the project budgets.
• Manages budgets to hours and dollar allocations to the approved amounts in accordance with financial processes.
• Proactively manages the change request process for project level scope, schedule and budget changes throughout the project life cycle.
• Accountable for monitoring and effectively representing project as well as works with the project team to develop mitigation strategies for any risks and dependencies.
• Accountable for driving project deliverables and compliance through the vendor contracting process for multiple vendors at a time.
• Manages the execution of contracted work to ensure contract compliance as well as timely receipt of deliverables and funds.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and seven years project management or equivalent experience to include enterprise-wide and multiple concurrent projects of increasing complexity.
• 5 years experience with project planning techniques and automated project planning tools.
• 5 years experience with software development lifecycle: development tools/technologies, release/version control, testing methodologies, and deployment management.

Hiring Preferences:

• Knowledge of legal aid services and BC justice sector ideal.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Visio, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Word, PowerPoint and Planview.
• Project Management Institute (PMI) certification or Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)
• 5+ years of experience in related field.
• In lieu of degree, 7+ years of experience in related field.