WHY JOIN THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY (CCS)?

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We fund the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer, from coast to coast and for all types of cancer. As the voice for Canadians who care about cancer, we work with governments to establish health policies to prevent cancer and better support those living with the disease. No other organization does all that we do to improve lives today and to change the future of cancer forever.

COME AS YOU ARE

At CCS, we embrace everyone’s uniqueness and recognize the strength that lies in differences. We believe in the power of our collective potential and strive to achieve a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace to empower and create opportunities for all. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their gender, age, religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality. Particularly equity deserving groups, such as members of the BIPOC, and LGBTQ2+ communities, people living with disabilities, veterans, and anyone who may contribute to the further diversification of the Canadian Cancer Society. Together we unite and inspire all Canadians to change the future of cancer.

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JOB OVERVIEW

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Manages a portfolio of approved projects through the project lifecycle, applying standardized project management methodologies including agile methodologies.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships and communications channels with senior leadership and internal business clients across all business functions to understand business needs, direction, and intent.
• Incorporates effective change management controls, and develops and executes change management plans to ensure the effective adoption of new business processes and tools.
• Responsible for delivering the projects on-time, on-budget, on-benefit as agreed with the stakeholders. Delivers consistent, timely and accurate status reports by developing and tracking project KPIs and maintaining project control documents (project schedules, sprints schedule, MVP, risk mitigation logs, RAID logs, budgets, etc).
• For Agile projects, conducts PI (program increment) planning sessions, creates/maintains sprints schedule, runs scrum meetings, calculates sprint velocity, identifies, and removes barriers for the team.
• Effectively manages vendor relationships through the lifecycle ensuring adherence to contract, SOW, SLAs.
• Ensures that projects are well-defined with clear and agreed MVP and measurable objectives, tracked, and communicated in a consistent and effective manner.
• Works with the technical leads to support team members in identifying, securing, and coordinating the engagement of internal and external resources, vendors and expertise to achieve project objectives.
• Identifies and manages dependencies between programs and projects that will affect priority sequencing and resource allocation decisions.
• Supports the assessment of emergent projects (e.g. for strategic alignment, likely project impact) and prepares insights and recommendations to improve the likelihood that projects are delivered on-time, on-budget and on-benefit.
• Supports the development of departmental processes, tools and resources related to effective project oversight (such as dashboards, KPIs, budget impact, strategic alignment) and project management (such as templates for business cases, charters, risk assessment and reporting/tracking mechanisms).
• Represents and promotes the PMO to the rest of the organization, and drive the understanding and consistent usage of its project methodologies.
• Supports team members and facilitates professional development at CCS through leadership, coaching and training.
• Actively contribute to our culture of justice, belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion by ensuring that all staff feel represented and heard regardless of their gender, age, religion, ethnicity, and nationality or race.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10 years of progressive experience managing IT and Digital Projects, including 5+ years of hands-on experience applying agile methodology in software development.
• Advanced user of both waterfall and agile project scheduling software.
• 5 years of experience in applying recognized change management methodologies.
• Experience in executive-level engagement and communication.
• Experience in remotely managing cross-functional teams.
• Experience with onboarding and managing vendors and external partners to ensure alignment with project success criteria and delivery.
• Experience managing and developing budgets over $1m.
• 2 to 5 years of experience managing or supervising staff is an asset.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, written and presentation skills.
• Fluency in English and French is an asset.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:

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