Director of Project Management

**WHO WE ARE**

Founded in 2009, Point Blank Creative is a national full-service agency working to make better possible by bringing together best practices in traditional advertising, digital, and community organizing. We work with movements and causes we care about, with a particular focus on the labour movement, electoral politics, health care, and issues of economic, social, and environmental justice.

Our team is an incredible group who have all chosen to work at Point Blank for the same reason it was founded: to help progressive organizations build effective tools, winning campaigns, and game-changing movements. We are Canada’s first fully unionized agency and are proud to say that our 50+ staff hail from 9+ countries, speak 9+ languages, 76% of us are women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, 29% are 2SLGBTQIA+ and 30% are IBPOC.

We work and live on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe and Coast Salish peoples, as well as the Coast Salish territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen)/Songhees, Esquimalt, WSÁNEĆ Nations, including the territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Stó:lō, səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nations; in Treaty 6 territory, the traditional meeting ground and home for many Indigenous peoples, including Plains and Woodland Cree, Assiniboine, Saulteaux, Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Métis, and Nakota Sioux peoples; in Treaty 13, the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat peoples, this land is also home to many diverse Indigenous, Inuit and Métis peoples.

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Reporting to the Chief Project Officer, the Director of Project Management is an experienced project manager and leader who manages Point Blank’s team of project managers and project coordinators. The Director of Project Management provides thought-leadership, strategic advice, mentorship, training, coaching and oversight, ensuring the team is able to do their best work and deliver highly efficient and effective work across projects, and in collaboration with other departments.

Our staff are proud members of UFCW 1518. This position is excluded from the unit.

**WHAT YOU DO**

**In your capacity as a Director and people leader you will**:

- Lead, mentor, coach, and train a team of Project Managers and Project Coordinators.
- Define clear development goals for your team and direct reports, and lead regular coaching and feedback conversations, as well as performance management for all members of your team.
- Hold team members accountable.
- Have a pulse on the capacity and workload of your team and work collaboratively with Resourcing to assign projects.
- Identify and seize opportunities to increase connection and fun within your team and with other project team colleagues
- Sit on Point Blank’s Leadership Team:

- Participate in Point Blank’s annual and quarterly planning process to set key results and initiatives for your team that align with the company’s objectives.
- Report into the LT about team performance and other relevant metrics.
- Be accountable for the quality of project management we deliver for clients:

- Uncover new ways of working, incorporate innovative approaches, and lead or contribute to the development of new practices and processes for your team, ensuring a smooth and collaborative internal team experience, a positive client experience, and the best possible quality for deliverables.
- Provide oversight of your team members’ work on all projects and across deliverables.
- Support internal teams in crafting proposal budgets and timelines that marry our clients’ needs with the proposed scope.
- Provide oversight and be accountable for keeping our suite of projects on budget and profitable:

- Conduct regular reviews of project budget and schedule progress with your team members.
- Support and oversee your team members in developing and maintaining accurate revenue projections for their projects (and do the same on your projects).
- Ensure that all projects are tracking to schedule or that the necessary adjustments have been made to budgets, timelines, and revenue projections when changes happen.
- Regularly collaborate with Finance and Ops team members to report on project finances.
- Undertake process improvement initiatives in collaboration with other directors and senior team members:

- Help identify gaps in process and structures, and work across the organization to help fill them, ensuring a smooth and collaborative internal team experience, a positive client experience, and the best possible quality for deliverables
- Recruit new talent and cultivate relationships with partners/vendors.

**In your capacity as a Senior Project Manager you will**:

- Plan and project manage any project, including major full service campaigns from strategy, creative, to production and distribution or other major projects.
- Design & maintain any project timeline, includin