Manager, Strategic Programs

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Join an organization that plays a critical role in Canada’s economy. At the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, we focus on doing the incredible work it takes to become the world’s most sustainable port.

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is responsible for the stewardship of the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s largest and most diversified port. Our mandate as a Canada Port Authority, as set out by the Canada Marine Act, is to enable Canada’s trade objectives, ensuring goods are moved safely and responsibly through the Port of Vancouver. That means providing infrastructure and ensuring the safe and efficient movement of marine traffic and cargo within the port. It also means we carry out reviews of proposed activities and developments on federal port lands and waters to determine whether a project can go ahead without impacts to the environment and community that cannot be mitigated.

We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability. We believe in creating a workplace that reflects the richness of our community and empowers all employees to reach their full potential.

The Manager, Strategic Programs - Delivery leads the PMO’s delivery team, overseeing a portfolio of high-impact strategic and business improvement projects to ensure delivery meets scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.

This role drives project exploration, business case development, and implementation, ensuring projects meaningfully contribute to strategy implementation and fostering effective collaboration across departments. Working within established governance frameworks, the Manager’s primary focus is on ensuring successful project delivery, maintaining transparency, accountability, and alignment with strategic programs. Additionally, the role champions continuous improvement in project delivery and plays a key role in building organizational project management capacity.

**Strategic and Change Leadership**
- Oversee delivery of PMO-led projects, and partner with project leaders across departments, to deliver against the full project lifecycle for projects covering a portfolio of projects which focus on the business needs of strategic programs
- Directly lead delivery of critical and/or high-impact projects, from initiation to completion, managing confidential and high-stakes projects with discretion, integrity, and strategic focus
- Act as a change leader within the organization, embedding change management principles into team practices and individual projects. Lead change readiness assessments, stakeholder communication plans, and training to support organizational transformation efforts.

**Project Management and Delivery**
- Develop and implement project delivery strategies to ensure successful implementation of strategic programs and portfolio priorities
- Manage the full lifecycle of assigned projects from kick-off to closure, ensuring delivery within agreed-upon scope, budget, and schedule. Ensure adherence to governance and project management frameworks, policies and directives, and service-level standards
- Develop comprehensive project plans and schedules, manage resource allocation, track progress against milestones, and manage project change
- Proactively manage project
- and program-level risks, resource challenges, dependencies, and escalations, driving timely mitigations and upholding accountabilities
- Lead and oversee the sourcing, selection, and management of major suppliers and contractors, negotiating terms and monitoring performance to ensure delivery of high-quality services

**Stakeholder Engagement and Communications**
- Build and sustain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring appropriate levels of engagement throughout project delivery and accountability for adopting and sustaining change post-implementation
- Facilitate clear, governance-aligned project reporting, providing stakeholders with updates on progress, risks, and recommendations. Serve as the primary point of contact for key stakeholders, sponsors, and governance bodies on critical project progress and issues
- Collaborate with project owners and business leaders to define, measure, and track project outcomes, championing project delivery transparency, engagement, and collaboration

**Capacity Building and Continuous Improvement**
- Contribute to the development of the organization’s project management and change maturity through mentoring, coaching, and training delivery teams across the organization
- Ensure all projects under direct or indirect management adhere to organizational frameworks and standards, performing health checks on key projects and scheduling key lifecycle stage gates, such as risk assessments, go/no go decisions, and operational readiness reviews
- Capture and integrate lessons learned into future project delivery and change leadership practices, creating a feedback loop for continuous improvement
- Maintain comprehens