Project Manager

Your Opportunity:

Join us in shaping the future of pediatric virtual healthcare through the Stollery Centre for Excellence in Virtual Health — a bold initiative driving innovation and integration of safe, appropriate, and patient-centered virtual care across the pediatric journey. Our work spans local communities as well as rural, remote, and Indigenous populations throughout Alberta and the Stollery Children’s Hospital catchment area. The Centre offers expertise in project management, change management, and evaluation for initiatives ranging from small-scale improvements to complex, multi-faceted projects. These projects include optimizing and expanding existing virtual care connections, introducing new modalities, and collaborating across multiple Stollery programs, AHS departments and zones, often involving external stakeholders and interdependent initiatives. As a Project Manager, you will possess a blend of soft skills, such as communication, adaptability, and leadership, and hard skills in planning and oversight, leveraging your experience, skills and resources to actively lead and contribute to the success of transformative projects that redefine how pediatric virtual care is delivered. This role is located at the Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre. Although rare, you may be required to travel outside of Edmonton area. Evening and weekend availability may occasionally be necessary.

Description:

In this role, the Project Manager (PM), reports to the Senior Project Manager. As part of a cross-functional, collaborative team-based environment and the PM will be expected to lead the entire project lifecycle and actively contribute to core outputs including but not limited to project charters, project management plans, work breakdown structures, project schedules, status reports, implementation and transition plans and closure reports. This role leads risk and issue identification and response planning, monitoring, and reporting. Having a solid understanding of Change management processes the PM will integrate change management activities and contribute to the development of resources and materials such as process maps and training and communication plans. The PM is a motivated, independent, adaptable collaborator and effective communicator with the ability to build rapport with stakeholders, develop and facilitate presentations and meetings. A key component will be to utilize your critical thinking skills to analyze problems, devise solutions, and apply them effectively. Your knowledge and experience in virtual care, pediatric, acute, or ambulatory healthcare settings will be crucial to successfully executing projects and contributing to the Centre’s broader goals. Your experience and knowledge as leader of innovation and change, is responsible to define, organize and execute key organizational, operational, and strategic initiatives within the Centre. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to make informed decisions, communicate effectively, and inspire confidence in others. Success contributors in this role are the ability to prioritize, work independently, quality project planning, timely delivery of project milestones, and the ability to drive actionable outcomes across virtual care initiatives.