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Skyrocket your career with Elantis! Certified as a Great Place to Work®, Best Workplace™ for Today's Youth, and Best Workplace™ for Inclusion, we're looking for a passionate and driven Business Analyst to support our customer projects.

The Role

Responsibilities

Responsible for the coordination and completion of IT projects. Oversees all aspects of projects. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project. Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of project. Application of project management rigor and expertise will result in successful projects delivered on-time, on-budget and with deliverables that meet the expectations of the business and/or end users. The Project Manager will utilize client's project management standards to ensure that adopted practices and processes are applied throughout the project life-cycle. The Project Manager will share their expertise with the Project Lead, other Project Managers and project team members. The primary work location is remote/online with a requirement to work from the office if required.

• Compile project charters and business/project plans to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each applicable project, to ensure business objectives and data integrity are achieved.
• Manage project(s) that will document business requirements, design and deliver IT solutions that are compliant with and contribute to the Ministries' enterprise architecture.
• Assist with the development of recommendations including providing details of resource requirements, dependencies, interdependencies, policy implications pertaining to internal/external influences and the methodology to be applied.
• Produce and package deliverables for presentation to various internal support teams, steering committee, and other project stakeholders.
• Manage multiple projects, project resources and project governance.
• Work with project sponsors to ensure that effective project communication exists through the duration of the project including escalation of risks as required.
• Take responsibility for ongoing client satisfaction – manage peer-level client relationships and overcome hurdles to ensure win-win solutions.
• Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan that clearly states the project's objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits and budget.
• Work with project sponsors and the project management office to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.
• Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget and resources and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks.
• Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.
• Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks.
• Develop, as required, related requirements documentation.
• In collaboration with project sponsors, assess whether the project achieved stated outcomes and identify opportunities for improvement for future similar projects.
• Provide leadership and assistance to business and project teams that require change management and communication support.
• Work within the standards defined by the project management office and in the absence of standards work with the project management office to define new standards.

Required Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated experience working as a Project Manager on a large complex software application development project in complex environment and large size.
• Experience defining/managing project scope and goals in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Experience developing project deliverables including project charters, business cases, briefing notes, status reports, risk logs and project closures.
• Demonstrated experience managing IT application development projects with large teams (at least 5 team members).
• Available to lead frequent (daily) face-to-face / remote meetings with clients and technical teams as required.
• Experience in managing resources throughout the project delivery lifecycle.
• Experience working on a large/complex projects working with multiple Project Managers.

Working Hours:

• Standard Hours of work are 08:15 – 16:30 Alberta time
• It is anticipated the role will be 100% remote, But if the contractor is local, may be asked to attend some on-site if available (non-mandatory).