Apply for Project Manager

On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is looking for a Program Manager to be responsible for managing projects and/or initiatives, including leading working sessions with key stakeholders and team members, defining the problem statement, defining project scope to ensure that the problem will be resolved, developing approaches and plans to complete the scope, developing forecasts and managing financials, estimating benefits and ensuring they will be achieved, managing project controls, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate working sessions with relevant stakeholders and business operations to define problem statement and project scope to ensure that problem will be resolved

• Developing approaches, plans, and schedules, including estimating level of effort, to ensure that scope will be complete

• Preparing templates for deliverables, reviewing deliverables, and ensuring that deliverables are completed to the quality standard required in a timely manner

• Developing forecasts, tracking actuals, and completing financial reports

• Working with the benefits team to estimate benefits based on future state design and ensure that target outcomes will be achieved

• Preparing business cases and obtaining funding approval

• Working with the business design team to support current state (processes and operating model) assessment, requirements gathering, and future state (processes and operating model) design to ensure that target outcomes will be achieved

• Work with transition team to develop change impact assessment, communications, learning, materials for change tactics, and support implementation of future state business design and operating model

• Work with technology team to ensure that development and testing is completed in a timely manner and will achieve target outcomes

• Work with benefits measurement and reporting team to develop metrics, KPIs, and reports that will measure benefits following implementation of future state design

• Manage go-live planning and deployment to ensure that adjustments are made, as required, in order to achieve target benefits

• Manage and train team members, as required

Sample Deliverables:

• Working session materials, problem statement, guiding principes, and project scope; project approach, plans, and schedules, level of effort estimates, project forecasts and financial reports, business cases, project control logs, status reports, support with business design deliverables, tech development and testing plans and trackers, benefits estimates and trackers, input into metrics, KPIs, and report design; input into change impact assessments; input into communications and training materials; etc.

Qualifications:

• Self-starter and ability to work effectively as an individual contributor, as required, as well as part of a team

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to navigate complex stakeholder environment and build effective relationships

• Experience working in public sector unionized environment

• Experience working on a business transformation program or project

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of the claims process end-to-end

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About Affinity: 

Affinity Group is a technology and business consulting and services company. We believe in creating long term relationships between clients and consultants that foster a mutually beneficial partnership. Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

For more information on Affinity, please visit www.affinity-group.ca

Job Number: 11588

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