Project Leader

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $38.12 - $54.80 / hour

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Full Time Project Leader to join our team in Surrey, B.C.

In this role, you'll work under the Senior Project Manager with a Change Leader to advance Fraser Health strategic projects and your day-to-day will be spent working with an up-beat Project Management Office (PMO) team who values learning and teamwork, and supports and cares about each other. If your career path includes working on highly visible projects that make a real difference in people's lives, this role may be for you!

Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields. Fraser Health offers opportunities for career growth and advancement and competitive benefits, including but not limited, to:

• Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.
• Generous Vacation Time: Eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation to recharge and relax.
• Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.
• Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.
• Maternity Top-Up: Receive an 87% top-up during maternity leave.
• TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes.
• Additional employee discounts and perks available.

• Eligibility based on employment status.
  
  

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Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families.

The Project Leader provides project management support services to Fraser Health (FH) clients in the areas of strategic business systems planning, business process design and information management; develops plans and strategies to deliver designated projects and initiatives from initial idea stage through implementation to the realization of business benefits; collaborates with managers and staff to implement the overall Health Informatics and Information Technology (HIIT) strategic direction for FH; supports interdepartmental projects by managing project timelines and resources, providing leadership to team members, facilitating transition management and coordinating the procurement and management of external services; develops standards for project practice and for continually improving project oversight.

Responsibilities

• Manages assigned projects and other assigned major FH initiatives through the project management phases using a standard methodology; develops and coordinates project plans and identifies financial implications; identifies project risks and implications and develops risk mitigation plans; ensures the projects and initiatives and the related outcomes are aligned with FH Strategic Plans and with the overall HIIT direction.
• Manages the scope of designated projects and initiatives by reviewing contract deliverables; achieves target project outcomes and ensures project requirements are achieved in a timely manner within budget and resource guidelines; ensures compatibility and consistency with enterprise architectural standards.
• Assembles project teams and identifies other required resources; assigns responsibilities and develops timeframes and milestones to track and facilitate successful completion of project activities and deliverables; provides leadership to team members by providing guidance on project management duties, budget management or technical issues; receives updates from assigned team members on project status.
• Monitors project delivery performance against project plans by measuring and evaluating key outcomes; assesses the performance of project related staff; manages team members by providing work direction and assessing staff performance on projects and assigned responsibilities; reviews and monitors project assignments and provides project management orientation to team members.
• Provides reports to the Project Sponsor, Manager and other stakeholders after reviewing and monitoring project progress through all project phases to ensure overall quality of implemented solutions; provides update on status and all aspects of the project, as required; coordinates cross-functional interfaces between assigned operating department management and service delivery units to ensure interdepartmental issues are effectively managed and issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Manages project closure activities, coordinates transition activities and participates in cost/benefit analysis of projects and initiatives; measures delivery of benefits against planned outcomes; measures key outcomes, assesses the performance of projects against results and reports on benefits realization to Executives and the project selection processes.
• Champions planning, project methodologies and best practice through mentoring, coaching and communicating with assigned staff, team members and stakeholders.
• Assists with developing the annual goals and objectives for the department, in collaboration with the Manager, ensuring consistency with the FH objectives and strategies.
• Works with the Project Management Office team engaged in setting and maintaining standards for project practice; researches, designs, develops and implements tools and processes informed by industry best practice; keeps current of FH's requirements for project standards to ensure current and continually improving project delivery.
  
  

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems or Health Information Science and a professional designation such as a Project Management Professional (PMP), supplemented with five (5) years' recent related experience working with contemporary project management practice in a large complex organization, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Competencies

LEADS Capabilities

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Knowledge of project management tools, techniques and practices and the application of these in HIIT
• Ability to define, lead, plan, direct and manage projects and to deliver project results
• Ability to successfully manage complex work teams in a dynamic environment with changing priorities
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team
• Ability to develop and maintain rapport with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position
  
  

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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