Senior Project Manager to provide team direction, planning and organization using Agile methodology to advance policy projects.
Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Jun 05, 2023
Job End Date: Jun 14, 2024
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 130189
Location: Vancouver
Our public sector client is seeking a Project Manager to provide team direction, planning and organization using Agile methodology to advance policy projects.
1 year contract to start, possible 1 year extension. Victoria local candidates. 1 full time candidate or 2 part-time candidates.
Must Have Experience:
1 year contract to start, possible 1 year extension. Victoria local candidates. 1 full time candidate or 2 part-time candidates.
Must Have Experience:
- 10 years of experience as a Project Manager, with a minimum of 5 years of relevant working experience
- Experience working with government in the policy and/or regulatory space.
- Experiencing working with agile/scrum processes.
- Supporting the Permitting/Authorizations and Statutory Decision Making Solutions Branch (PASS), which is tasked to lead work across the natural resource sector, including working with the 6 natural resource ministries and the Environmental Assessment Office, to address priority projects and permitting caseload; examine legislative and policy barriers; enhance systems and data, policy and tools to support decision-making; examine government’s fee structure to ensure cost-recovery principles are met; and pilot new decision-making models, all while considering the need for Indigenous comanagement and shared decision making. This work, which began in 2022, will continue to be staged out over the next 14 months and beyond for the broader strategic policy and legislative shifts. The Project Manager(s) will help provide team direction, planning and organization using Agile methodology to advance policy projects. The PM(s) will operate in a guiding position, meeting daily at times with the team to discuss progress on priorities and compiling bi-weekly reports. There are four distinct Agile policy-based teams of up to nine people working on developing advance permitting solutions focusing on delegation models, deemed authorizations, professional reliance, and groundwater authorizations. This work is applying an agile approach to address policy challenges. Demonstrable progress must be made by June 2024 with progress on some files anticipated in short order. The agile teams feature dedicated resources, including one or two PMs participating across the four teams.