Senior Project Manager – Digital Transformation

Staff - Non Union

Job Category

M&P - AAPS

Job Profile

AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level E2

Job Title

Senior Project Manager – Digital Transformation

Department

OCIO | Program Delivery | Project Management Office

Compensation Range

$11,397.00 - $17,081.58 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date

October 6, 2026

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

September 30, 2027

This is a one-year term position

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff, and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Office of the CIO (OCIO) has an extensive list of investment requests for IT-enabled projects from across the University. The execution of the portfolio of projects extends out over at least the next five years, and new projects are being added to the pipeline on a regular basis. The execution of each project within the portfolio is approximately one year and the resources from each project will transition from one project to the next upon completion of the delivery of each project. These projects will be managed within the Program Delivery office. The Program Delivery office is seeking a Senior Project Manager.

The Senior Project Manager manages all aspects of the development and implementation of large, multi-faceted projects and takes projects from original concept through to final implementation. The incumbent directs and coordinates a cross-functional team and manages inter-project dependencies and communication. The incumbent develops and oversees project plans, schedules, resources, and budgets and establishes metrics to monitor the quality of deliverables and the level of customer satisfaction. The Senior Project Manager works collaboratively with key stakeholders, including University senior management.

• Organizational Status
• The Senior Project Manager works within the project team including Solution Architects, Business Analysts, Developers, Operations Teams, functional experts, and other project specialists, and reports directly to Senior PMO Operations Manager, Program Delivery, OCIO, and takes day-to-day direction from, the Senior PMO Delivery Manager on all aspects of project delivery, while working closely with technology professionals across the UBC community as well as senior leadership and staff in other administrative and academic units. The Senior Project Manager will ensure that formal project management methodologies established by UBC IT's Program Delivery Office (PMO) are followed.

Work Performed

Specific Duties:

• •Manages complex enterprise-level projects with multiple large-scale functional areas to further develop and implement aspects of work related to information systems and business processes that involve the greater UBC community.
• •Leads areas of responsibility including project management, Functional, Solution Architecture, Change Management, and User Experience and will be responsible to ensure consistent application of project management principles established within the Office of the CIO (OCIO).
• •Provides senior-level expertise and direction into the approach for system development and deployment, package implementation, system scalability and performance, and University-wide systems integration.
• •Maintains and manages risk, action, issue, and decision (RAID) logs.
• •Leads and manages the definition of scope, sequencing, scheduling, and budgeting of the implementation plan with input and support from the workstream teams.
• •Develops, maintains, and communicates an overall Implementation Plan, ensuring resource optimization.
• •Manages procurement in collaboration with UBC Procurement and UBC Legal Counsel to develop compliant and effective procurement documentation, processes, and evaluation methods.
• •Conducts post-implementation reviews to ensure continuous improvement and learning.
• •Oversees deliverables associated with the Project Delivery Team; monitoring for consistent and predictable system and tool performance.
• •Collaborates with technical and other professionals on Enterprise Strategic Initiatives to share best practices and identify and resolve cross-program impacts.

Core duties:

• •Initiates projects following appropriate project management methodology including gathering and defining comprehensive project requirements, ensuring strategic alignment, developing project charters, project plans, budgets, and schedules, determining staffing requirements, and forming cross-functional project teams.
• •Defines and follows project management methods, procedures, and quality objectives, including metrics for assessing progress.
• •Balances workload, and provides technical and analytical guidance and work direction to project team, including scheduling, assignment of work, review of project efforts, and removal of roadblocks that inhibit project success.
• •Ensures that all team members have the tools and training required to perform effectively, and provides the team with constructive feedback as it pertains to project performance.
• •Assesses variances from the project plans, budgets, and schedules, develops and implements changes as necessary to ensure that the project remains within the specified scope and is within time, cost, and quality objectives, and keeps management aware of the situation.
• •Evaluates and ensure sponsor/client satisfaction at project completion.
• •Drafts contracts and Service Level Agreements and manages RFIs/RFPs for evaluation, selection, and procurement of products and/or services from vendors.
• •Identifies potential areas for improvement in current methodologies and provides coaching to project managers.
• •Develops and maintains a productive working relationship with project sponsors, vendors, and key clients.
• •Maintains appropriate professional designations and up-to-date knowledge of current information technology techniques and tools.
• •Performs other related duties as required.

Consequence of Error/Judgement

Information Technology plays a key role in enabling the University to achieve its goal of becoming one of the world's leading universities. The Senior Project Manager plays a significant role in the implementation of enterprise-wide systems and processes. Should these projects not be completed successfully or the results not support the activities of the University, this would compromise the University's ability to achieve its strategic goals and vision. The inability of systems and processes to support the University's needs could seriously compromise daily business and activities at the University.

The Sr Project Manager must assume responsibility for project decisions that could have a significant financial impact on the University and be able to foresee potential problems before they occur and take corrective action.

• Supervision Received
• The Senior Project Manager reports directly to Senior PMO Operations Manager, Program Delivery, and OCIO, and takes day-to-day direction from, the Senior PMO Delivery Manager on all aspects of project delivery.

• Supervision Given
• Manages staff directly and indirectly through subordinates. Plans direct and supervises the work of staff assigned to projects including contractors and vendors.

• Minimum Qualifications
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant disc