Senior Information Technology Project Manager

We are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager for a 24-month contract position, with possible extensions in Edmonton, Alberta. Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

This position is hybrid. Primarily remote with occasional meetings or work sessions in the office. 8 hours per day for a total of 40 hours per week.

Role Description

This role will provide senior-level project leadership, coordination, and oversight for multiple concurrent eHealth initiatives supporting ministry priorities.

The Senior IT Project Manager is responsible for managing complex IT and digital health projects from initiation through execution, ensuring that project objectives, timelines, and deliverables are met. The resource will lead the development of project charters, plans, schedules, and governance structures; coordinate and facilitate stakeholder engagement; and oversee documentation, risk/issue management, and project reporting to executive leadership. This role requires strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills with the ability to navigate competing priorities, anticipate risks, and support clear decision-making.

The successful candidate will bring demonstrated experience leading complex IT or eHealth projects within the Canadian health system, ideally with familiarity with Alberta's stakeholder, provider, and regulatory landscape. Experience working with senior and executive-level stakeholders in politically sensitive or multi-jurisdictional environments is considered an asset. The resource must be able to interpret business priorities, integrate technical and operational considerations, and produce high-quality project materials for decision-makers.

The successful candidate will be assigned to multiple concurrent initiatives involving digital health service delivery, identity and access management, system modernization, health information integration, and improvements to provincial clinical and administrative systems

Responsibilities

- Lead the planning, initiation, execution, and monitoring of multiple concurrent IT and digital health projects.
- Develop project charters, project plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, and scope statements.
- Manage project resources, dependencies, and deliverables to ensure alignment with scope, timelines, and budget.
- Establish and maintain project governance structures including steering committees, working groups, and decision-making pathways.
- Prepare, update, and maintain core project artifacts (RAID logs, work plans, status reports, dashboards).
- Support project start-up activities, including setting up SharePoint sites, project calendars, contact lists, and supporting collaboration tools.
- Ensure alignment with ministry standards, enterprise architecture, and project management office (PMO) expectations.
- Coordinate and facilitate project meetings, including agendas, materials, minutes, and follow-up tracking.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal teams, vendors, external partners, and health system stakeholders (e.g., AHS, community providers, regulatory colleges, associations).
- Communicate project progress, decisions, and risks clearly to sponsors, senior leadership, and governance groups.
- Identify, anticipate, and escalate risks, resistance, or delivery challenges early with recommended mitigation strategies.
- Support change management and communication planning within project teams and impacted stakeholder groups
- Produce high-quality reports, summaries, presentations, and briefing materials for senior and executive leadership.
- Monitor and report on project status relative to objectives, deliverables, milestones, budget, and resource utilization.
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation of decisions, issues, actions, and project changes.
- Ensure compliance with approved methodologies, governance standards, and health information requirements.
- Conduct post-project assessments to evaluate performance, identify lessons learned, and recommend improvements.

Required Skills and Experience

- 8 years of demonstrated experience in developing integrated plans, portfolio and project reporting and communicating progress to senior executives.
- 5 years of demonstrated experience leading healthcare portfolios or initiatives of similar size and complexity.
- 5 years of experience assisting clients to execute strategies with technology, process, organizational design and IT operations
- 8 years of experience in the development of project documents for a wide variety of initiatives and projects (strategic, business improvement, information technology, etc.)
- 8 years of experience supporting and collaborating directly with stakeholders, external (public users) and internal business areas. Ability to co-ordinate and communicate necessary information well to all clients.
- 8 years of experience working with cross-functional teams to understand detailed requirements and align the design to product vision and user needs.
- 5 years as Senior leadership experience defining project scope, goals and deliverables such as roadmaps, governance, briefing notes, and business cases that support project goals in collaboration with business stakeholders
- 8 years of experience leading project governance, change management and communication activities.

Desired Skills and Experience

- 3 years of demonstrated experience with data integration between clinical applications in the Canadian eHealth environment.
- 5 years of demonstrated experience working as a Change Manager on a large complex custom software application development project in an environment of similar size and complexity to the organization
- 5 years of experience in the analysis, development, and integration of complex IT systems.
- 5 years of experience in understanding complex businesses questions and framing the right analytical question to solve a business problem.

Please note that while all applications are appreciated, only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

InSync Systems Inc. is a privately-owned boutique Canadian Resourcing and Consulting Services Company that works closely with a range of corporate clients across multiple industries to bring them solutions that effectively address their business needs.