Senior Project Manager

As a Senior Project Manager, you will provide project and portfolio leadership and oversight for complex and strategic projects. You'll drive to achieve business benefits for clinical and corporate stakeholders by managing projects to corporate standards, coordinating within Fraser Health and with vendors. You'll gain access to valuable educational opportunities and tools to advance your career.

Build on your education and career experience as you:

• Coordinate projects between Fraser Health teams, PHSA teams, vendors and the project steering committee.
• Adhere to Fraser Health policies and priorities, directing work and ensuring issues are resolved and risks mitigated to achieve business outcomes and schedule, financial and scope objectives.
• Communicate with executive leadership and other partners to provide updates on project progress and maintain project alignment to strategic organizational goals.
• Manage to key project performance indicators including schedules, budgets, financial forecasts and actual project spending.
• Adhere to the Project Management Office Project Lifecycle as mandated by executives. Works with the Project Sponsors and stakeholders by monitoring and reporting on all project phases to ensure project success and overall quality of implemented solutions; provide updates on project status and advise Project Sponsors of project issues and risks requiring attention and/or mitigation.
• Manage established contracts and work with vendors and other external service providers to ensure completion of deliverables and quality of performance; monitor the skills and capabilities of external staffing to be continuously fit for purpose to deliver program objectives; negotiate changes and resolve disputes as authorized by Fraser Health.
• Act as a mentor to other Fraser Health informatics project managers to strengthen organizational delivery capabilities.

To join our team, we will look for you to have:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or Health Information Science, supplemented with twelve (12) years' recent related experience with contemporary project management practice including five (5) years' experience as a senior project manager for a large complex organization, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification.

An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered

We will give preferences to those who have experience and a solid track record in the following areas:

• Working independently to execute all tasks required with minimum oversight
• Project planning and experience coordinating multiple complex project teams
• Vendor management and oversight
• Communication to senior level governance committees
• Knowledge of project management tools, techniques and practices and applying them within information management environment
• Managing project budgets in public sector setting
• Creative problem solving

This is a Full Time opportunity and is based out of Central City Tower, Surrey BC.

Valued Benefits

We offer you the opportunity to be a part of a dedicated, forward-thinking team of Information Management professionals in a dynamic, values-based and rewarding health care environment. The project and technical experience you bring to this role will not only enhance and improve the strength of the IMPMO team but will make a direct impact on program success.

Are you passionate about building an engaging environment that supports and challenges others to achieve their goals? If so, we encourage you to apply today and take the next step in your career, so we can continue the conversation and make a difference in the communities we serve. We value diversity in the work force and aim to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring & Trust.

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitment of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

The Senior Project Manager provides project leadership and oversight for assigned large-scale technology project(s) and/or group of projects in support of Fraser Health (FH) executive, clinical and business stakeholders.

The Senior Project Manager provides services to FH clients in the areas of strategic business systems planning, business process design and information management; develops plans and strategies to deliver organizational and enterprise-wide initiatives from initial idea stage to implementation and leads the processes to realize business and operational benefits for the client group; consults with stakeholders and other client groups to implement overall Ministry of Health, Fraser Health and Information Management strategic direction.

The Senior Project Manager leads enterprise-wide projects and other major organizational initiatives including managing timelines and resources, facilitating transition and change management, coordinating the procurement and management of external services and project team members; ensures implementation of standards for project practice and governance, measures compliance with existing processes and procedures, supports and complements the activities to ensure current and continually improving project oversight and outcomes. Plans, negotiates, coordinates, and implements project plans consistent with business cases, approved financial parameters, and business requirements.

1. Manages the planning and implementation of large technology projects and sub-projects from the initial planning and design stages to implementation and completion; provides support by conveying policies and priorities, directing work and ensuring issues are resolved or escalated to appropriate level(s) to achieve objectives including business outcomes, scope, quality, schedule and budget.
2. Communicates with executive leadership and sponsors to inform on project progress; maintains alignment on strategic program goals; facilitates key decisions, manages risks and resolves high level issues in a timely manner.
3. Oversees the Performance Management process for assigned projects. Manages these through the project management lifecycle using standard methodologies by developing related plans, identifying financial implications, ensuring financial requirements are met and formulating change management strategies.
4. Maintains project standards for quality, transparency, and governance according to the Project Management Office Project Lifecycle. Works with Project Management Office team engaged in setting and maintaining standards for project practice; researches, designs, develops and implements tools and processes informed by industry best practice; keeps current of FH's requirements for project standards to ensure current and continually improving project delivery.
5. Supports project teams in planning and development according to the Project Management Office Project Lifecycle. Ensures that all projects follow the Project Management Office Project Lifecycle as mandated by executives. Works with the project sponsors and stakeholders by monitoring and reporting on all project phases to ensure project success and overall quality of implemented solutions.
6. Identifies inter-projects issues, dependencies and risks and actively works to resolve, schedule and mitigate in order to achieve program and project success.
7. Provides oversight for project key performance indicators including schedule, budget, forecast and project spending; reports on variances and impacts to deliverables, and makes recommendations to project sponsors to mitigate cost overruns, maintain adherence to allocated budgets and timelines, and ensure delivery of a successful project.
8. Works with software vendors and other external service providers to negotiate contract terms and pricing and resolve complex and/or tentative service issues.
9. Manages established contracts and oversees performance to ensure that consultants and contractors complete on obligations and deliverables; negotiates changes and resolves disputes within authorized limits.
10. Manages team members by assigning, delegating and coordinating work assignments/projects, providing guidance, orienting new team members, recruiting, and terminating service contract.
11. Participates on internal and external committees, as assigned.

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or Health Information Science, supplemented with seven (7) to ten (10) years' recent related experience with contemporary project management practice including five (5) years' experience as a senior project manager for a large complex organization, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Project Management Professional (PMP).

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

• Demonstrated ability to define, lead, plan, direct and manage projects and to deliver business results
• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and manage multiple complex teams in an dynamic environment with changing priorities
• Advanced knowledge of project management tools, techniques and practices and the application of these in information management
• Demonstrated understanding of program and project finances in a public sector setting including capital and operating budgeting
• Ability to develop and maintain rapport with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to be organized, goal-oriented, proactive and practical
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team
• Ability to supervise staff and provide work direction to others
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka'pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health's hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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