RQ10785 - Project Control Officer - Senior

Responsibilities: • Provide assistance to Managers, Project Managers and project team, in coordinating, planning, communicating, and executing the delivery of core project components. • Manage project/work plans, tracking and analytics for the program/project execution. • Responsible for creation and/or maintenance of management dashboards and executive summaries. • Process Workflow Management from ticketing, and risk/issue management. General Skills: • Experience collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintaining project budgeting, progress reporting, action items, risk management updates, etc. • Experience working alongside Managers and Project Managers to provide updates, escalate issues where required, identify risks, and lead/coordinate project document deliverables. • Demonstrated experience working in a professional environment supporting multiple Project Managers and critical projects. • Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs. • Experience scheduling meetings. • Experience with monitoring a project document repository and ensuring all documents are reviewed and maintained in the repository. • Demonstrated understanding of project methodologies (e.g., Waterfall/AGILE) through-out the software development life cycle. Desirable Skills: • Demonstrated Project Management software skills and experience (e.g., MS Project, Planview, etc). • Understanding of Project Management concepts (e.g., project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, planning, cost and quality management). • Experience with SCRUM an asset. • Experience with mainframe/legacy systems. Requirements Experience and Skill Set Requirements: Must Haves: • 7 - 10 years of experience coordinating projects. • Experience working alongside Managers and Project Managers to provide updates, escalate issues where required, identify risks, and lead/coordinate project document deliverables • Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs. • Demonstrated Project Management software skills and experience (e.g., MS Project, Planview, etc.). • Understanding of Project Management concepts (e.g., project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, planning, cost and quality management). Skill Set Requirements: Core Skills and Experience: • 7 - 10 years of experience coordinating projects. • Experience collaborating with various groups to gather updates and maintaining project budgeting, progress reporting, action items, risk management updates, etc. • Experience working alongside Managers and Project Managers to provide updates, escalate issues where required, identify risks, and lead/coordinate project document deliverables. • Demonstrated experience working in a professional environment supporting multiple Project Managers and critical projects for mainframe/legacy systems. • Experience developing project status reports and maintaining and monitoring status reporting logs. • Experience scheduling meetings. • Experience facilitating meetings. • Experience monitoring project document repository and ensuring all documents are reviewed and maintained in the repository. Project Management Skills: • Demonstrated Project Management software skills and experience (e.g., MS Project, Planview, etc.). • Understanding of Project Management concepts (e.g., project goals, risk, scope, participant roles, planning, cost and quality management). General skills: • Exceptional analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills. • Demonstrated strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and presentation skills. • Proven troubleshooting and critical thinking experience. • Demonstrated ability to apply strong listening skills to facilitate issue resolution. • Effective consulting skills to engage with all stakeholders with proven track record for building strong working relationships. • Strong interpersonal, facilitation and negotiation skills with ability to build rapport with stakeholders and drive negotiations to a successful outcome. • Excellent customer service skills, including tact and diplomacy to ensure client needs are managed effectively. • A motivated, flexible, detail-oriented and creative team player with perseverance, excellent organization and multi-tasking abilities, and a proven track record for meeting strict deadlines. Public Sector Experience: • Experience working in the public sector on a mainframe/legacy system.