JOB PROFILE
Career Group:Project Management / Job Family:
Project Management / Job Stream: / Role:
Senior Management / Revised Date
October 2011:
Title: Senior Project Manager Classification: Business Leadership
JOB OVERVIEW
The Senior PM will lead and manage a team of project managers, assistant project managers, and project technicians. The Senior PM is responsible for managing the development, implementation and evaluation of highway improvement projects. The Senior PM will lead major highway improvement projects and/or components of corridor programs with multiple key deliverables.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
Required:
· Lead a team of project managers including the responsibility for developing people, providing mentorship, and creating a vision for the team.
· Supervises staff including assignment of work, development and evaluation of performance plans, approval of leave, response to grievances and initiation of discipline processes.
· Participate in strategic initiatives as part of Highways Department.
· Manages and implements projects through all phases of the project management life cycle within accepted standards and deliverables.
· Determines project scope, defines deliverables, and develops project charters to align with the direction of the program area.
· Develops and maintains a broad range of stakeholder relationships to achieve project objectives including leading consultation sessions.
· Makes presentations and provides advice to the Minister, Deputy Minister, Ministry Executive, senior government officials on project status.
· Develops and implements all consultation, communication and marketing plans.
· Plans and conducts project evaluations and post-implementation reviews, and documents findings for future reference.
· Manages the financial resources for the project.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
· Degree in business administration, public administration, engineering, related field or equivalent with a minimum 5 years of recent* experience OR diploma with a minimum 7 years of recent* experience OR certificate with a minimum 10 years of recent* experience.
(*Recent is defined as within the last 5 years).
Experience Includes:
· Experience in supervising/leading in a professional environment,including managing the workload of other project managers, managing employee performance, coaching and mentoring, goal setting, and leading the resolution of HR/performance issues.
· Experience managing multiple projects or leading a component (e.g., sub-project) of a major project.
· Experience managing relationships with senior level stakeholders and leading consultation sessions.
· Experience in budget management and procurement.
Preference may be given to applicants with:
· Operational Experience with highway infrastructure.
· Experience managing major infrastructure projects.
· Experience with property acquisitions, First Nations Consultation and First Nations reserve land acquisition.
PROVISO
· Successful completion of security screening requirements of the BC Public Service, which may include a criminal records check, and/or Criminal Records Review Act (CRRA) check, and/or enhanced security screening checks as required by the ministry (Note: It is important that you read the job posting carefully to understand the specific security screening requirements pertaining to the position).
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
· Conflict resolution skills.
· Clear written and verbal communication skills
· Time and workload management
· Team Development
· Change management
· Ability to influence without authority.
· Results focused
· Initiative
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
· Planning, Organizing and Coordinating involves proactively planning, establishing priorities and allocating resources. It is expressed by developing and implementing increasingly complex plans. It also involves monitoring and adjusting work to accomplish goals and deliver the organization's mandate.
· Holding People Accountable involves setting high standards of performance and holding team members, other government jurisdictions, outside contractors, industry agencies, etc., accountable for results and actions.
· Leadership implies a desire to lead others, including diverse teams. Leadership is generally, but not always, demonstrated from a position of formal authority. The "team" here should be understood broadly as any group with which the person interacts regularly.
· Problem Solving/Judgement is the ability to analyze problems systematically, organize information, identify key factors, identify underlying causes and generate solutions.
STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP COMPETENICES
· Project Management: Building team orientation involves knowledge and skills in developing group identity, participative decision making and open and effective communication. This job requires the following most of the time:
o Creates teams that have the right mix of people, values all team members, and recognizes each team member’s unique contribution
o Fosters team cohesion by getting involved in the day-to-day events of the unit
o Provides the information the teams need to achieve their goals and objectives
o Involves team members in decision making when their commitment is important for implementation
o Identifies and engages in team development activities as needed
· Stakeholder Relations: Communicating Effectively involves good presentation skills (verbal and written), careful listening, problem framing and use of presentation technologies. This job requires the following most of the time: 7
o Is clear and convincing when making presentations to external audiences
o Adapts presentation to the audience when speaking or presenting
o Listens carefully to different audiences in order to understand their key points and major concerns
o Frames issues so that different audiences can understand them
o Makes effective use of new technologies and platforms for communication
· Promoting Empowerment involves knowledge and skills in using processes such as delegation and information sharing to enhance subordinate ownership and empowerment over their task and performance. This job requires the following most of the time:
o Looks for opportunities for delegation to occur in the unit whenever possible
o Empowers employees to take risks, supports them when things go wrong and encourages them to learn from setbacks and failures
o Gives subordinates the authority and resources to get the job done when assigning responsibility for task accomplishment
o Holds subordinates responsible for the successful completion of tasks assigned
o Coaches employees to achieve their goals
o Has an awareness of demographic trends and generational differences when working with employees
Career Group:Project Management / Job Family:
Project Management / Job Stream: / Role:
Senior Management / Revised Date
October 2011: