Project Manager Level 3

Summary

Join our team as a Project Manager Level 3 at the Department of Health in New Brunswick! This remote position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to significant projects. You will oversee solution delivery, manage project activities, and ensure projects remain on schedule and within budget. The role requires strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills. Travel to New Brunswick is required at least monthly. The contract runs from July 14, 2025, to December 13, 2031.

Requirements

• Formulates statements of management, scientific and business problems, establishes procedures for the development and implementation of significant, new or modified computer systems to solve these problems, and obtain approval thereof
• Defines and documents the objectives for the project, determines budgetary requirements, the composition, roles and responsibilities, and terms of reference for the project team
• Manages the project during the development, implementation and operations start up by ensuring that resources from all service areas are made available
• Reports progress of the project on an ongoing basis, and at scheduled points in the life cycle to the sponsors of the project
• Evaluates proposed computer systems to determine technical feasibility, functional adequacy, and estimated costs for implementation and operation
• Meets in conference with program managers and other cognizant officials and states problems in a form capable of being solved
• Prepares plans, charts, tables and diagrams to assist in analysing or displaying problems. Works with a variety of scientific, business or engineering tools requiring a sound knowledge of mathematics and management sciences
• Must have a demonstrated capability of managing a team of specialists, analysts and programmers
• Updated Resume in word format
• Skills Matrix
• References
• Expected hourly rate
• Visa Status
• LinkedIn ID

Responsibilities

• Oversee solution delivery via the Transformation Management Office (TMO) in collaboration with senior personnel, client business experts, clinical leaders and manage all related activities at a high level
• Project Management Understanding and ensuring the Implementation Partner’s methodology is setup for success within internal governance and working group structures
• Establish the Transformation Management Office framework and ensure it is understood and applied where required, if required (complement the Implementation Partner’s methodology)
• Ensuring project activities, materials, and communications are in both official languages (English and French). To be completely managed or delegated within the TMO
• Ensuring the project deliverables are completed
• Ensuring the project remains on schedule within budget and aligned to the defined scope
• Providing written “integrated” project status reports to the team at the frequency defined by project governance group(s)
• Reporting to the Project Leadership and Project Steering Committees
• Tracking, actioning, and escalating project issues
• Develop an integrated decision “Program Management” log and any necessary processes, tools, communications channels for decisions related to change requests, action items, and deliverable status
• Identifying and tracking project risks and actioning risk mitigation with the project team
• Estimation of costs based on the established total cost or ownership, level of effort and definition of the schedule will be established with the business owner and key partners
• Within a weekly cycle, review progress of work, issues, risks with team leads (on a one-on-one basis and / or in group)
• Manage the financial actuals and work with the financial analyst and project managers and team members to review and adjust forecasting
• Maintain project records management for auditability and accountability purposes following government standards
• Establish a demand and resource management strategy to effectively manage resource pool and develop expectations regarding current or upcoming needs. This applies to business, clinical, and technology aspects of the project
• Manage resources assignments between teams (in collaboration with Business Owner(s), System Owner, respective Project Managers, and Implementation Partner)
• Project Team Leadership and/or Collaboration Lead the team of project managers and stakeholders to support the project, provide feedback to project resources, and ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and with quality, while working collaboratively with the Implementation Partner Project Manager and teams in Phase II
• Work in collaboration with the Business Solution Owner, strategic advisors, and health system leaders to address issues, risks at program and project level
• Cultivate a “delivery-focused” culture and mindset that creates a sense of ownership, accountability, empowerment, and integration across team members
• Attend Meetings Organize and actively participate in project teams, product demonstrations, project status meetings, etc. as required
• Provide project reports and project related deliverables as determined by the Business Owner