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Job Type: Employee
Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs): 12
Job Family: Project Management
# of Open Positions: 1
Faculty/Service - Department: Office of the Secretary General
Campus: Main Campus
Union Affiliation: N/A
Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD): 2025/09/18
Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD): 2025/09/29
Hours per week: 35
Salary Grade: Non-Union Grade NM1
Salary Range: $104,880.00 - $131,101.00
Position Purpose
The Senior Project Manager is responsible and accountable for managing projects, leading development initiatives, and acting as a team leader by supervising the implementation of information management solutions. Responsible for the successful delivery of assigned projects within budget, on schedule, in accordance with the approved scope, all within established project methodologies. Partner with stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks. The candidate works closely with various levels of senior managers in the university and supervises the evaluation of projects, procedures, and operational requirements, and makes decisions and recommendations that follow strategic and operational direction of the Program.
Specific Accountabilities

• Strategic planning: Serves as product manager overseeing the operational strategy, and on-going improvement of the products created and delivered to the clients and community. Develops strategies for improved information sharing, online training content delivery and knowledge management within the team and the University IM champion community.
• Project Management: Plans and manages projects and initiatives. Leads the development initiatives planning sessions and acts as a team leader by managing the implementation of solutions within the Information management service. Collaborates with clients to establish priorities, develops plans, defines appropriate project management and control mechanisms, monitors and measures performance and takes corrective actions where required. Ensures that appropriate controls and progress reports are prepared regularly.
• Stakeholder Relationship: Proactively liaise with and report progress to internal client or project sponsor to ensure that they are informed of project progress and ensure that their opinions or requirements are taken into consideration as the project progresses. Propose and negotiate options or alternative solutions with stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered as per expectations.
• Expert Advice: Provides expert advice to various levels of senior management, on all matters associated with business analysis, technology recommendations and implementation strategies to ensure a standardized approach that align all initiatives with the university's vision and direction. Participates in process improvement initiatives to act as a leader, foster creativity and innovation.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• University degree in business administration, information technology, project management, change management or related field.
• A minimum of 7 years in large-scale, multi-disciplinary project management.
• Certification in project management.
• Certification in change Management.
• Experience in managing multi-year projects that involve cross-functional systems, creating estimates (timeframes, budgets, resources, etc.), as well as creating process workflow/information flow maps and performing risk analyses and proposing risk mitigation strategies
• Experience and knowledge of change-management principles and methodologies
• Excellent leadership abilities
• Experience developing and conducting interviews, focus groups and presentations
• Proven ability to manage internal and external client expectations related to requirements
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and effectively at all levels of the organization
• Strong analytical skills and conceptual thinking
• Experience developing and implementing effective communications strategies to support large-scale projects
• Experience designing, developing and organizing training activities, including determining the structure, content and learning objectives
• Proven track record in implementing organizational change management for large technology projects
• Excellent active listening skills
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills
• Bilingualism. French and English (oral and written)

Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:
Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.
The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click to find out more.
If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.
Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 - Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.

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