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Senior Project Manager - Change and Improvement

Canadian Red Cross · Canada – Virtual · Today

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Title: Senior Project Manager - Change and Improvement


Employee Working Location: Partially Virtual / Hybrid (Canada)


Employment Status: Temporary Full-Time (12 months)


The Canadian Red Cross (Red Cross) – an inspirational not for profit organization, helps people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and supports them in strengthening their resilience. As a Canada’s Best Employers 2026, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment.

In this role you will:

  • Define project objectives, scope, and execution roadmap in alignment with strategic goals.

  • Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, resource allocations, and budgets, managing dependencies and critical paths.

  • Leads project execution or guides process in support of service lines or team accountable for program, ensuring deliverables meet scope, timeline, and financial targets.

  • Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks with proactive contingency planning and ensure timely issue resolution, escalating to leadership when necessary.

  • Manage scope changes, assess impacts, and provide recommendations to leadership.

  • Facilitate stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment, issue resolution, and decision-making.

  • Optimize resource allocation across multiple projects while balancing competing priorities.

  • Track and manage project budgets, forecast costs, and implement cost-saving measures.

  • Conduct post-mortems to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.

  • Provide leadership to project teams, offering guidance, coaching, and fostering a collaborative culture.

  • Ensure compliance with governance frameworks, project management standards, and organizational policies.

  • Continuously refine project management processes based on team and stakeholder feedback.

  • Provide regular project updates, including status reports and financial tracking.

What we are looking for:

  • Qualifications include a minimum of 6-9 years experience and a 3-year college diploma or university degree in project management, business administration or similar and/or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Project management institute (PMI) certification or equivalent is required.

  • Demonstrated experience in managing all phases of large-scale and complex projects.

  • Demonstrated experience in defining and executing on change management plans to ensure user adoption and sustainment of project outcomes

  • Advanced skills in project management tools and methodologies across the full project cycle.

  • Work experience and knowledge relevant to the project area.

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) and SharePoint and project management
    information systems.

  • Ability to facilitate multiple stakeholders to achieve consensus, issue resolution, and decisions on complex issues with
    conflicting perspectives.

  • Ability to identify complex problems, analyze interrelated factors, assess and mitigate risks, and develop solutions using
    specialized skills.

  • Communication and influence skills to gather perspectives, understand needs, and present information to reach consensus, often in somewhat sensitive situations.

  • Ability to identify and assess potential risks that may affect project outcomes by developing risk mitigation strategies and
    contingency plans to minimize the impact of risks.

Working Conditions:

  • No unusual physical requirements.

  • Requires significant attention to detail and concentration and ability to mentally process large amounts of information.

  • The work pace is often unpredictable with significant time pressures.

  • Ability to adapt to frequent and often urgent changes in priorities, and make decisions under pressure, work at an unpredictable pace.

  • Work will be conducted in an office-like setting.

  • May require travel to safe locations; limited exposure to adverse conditions.

  • Work requires the ability to work to deadlines.

  • Work requires interactions with dissatisfied clients and the resolution of complex client issues