New Job Project Coordinator In Manitoba

Project Coordinator

Location: This position will be based in our Winnipeg, Burlington, and Toronto offices.

Application Deadline: August 30, 2022

Our organization:

Founded in 2017, Wellington-Altus Financial Inc. (Wellington-Altus) is the parent company to Wellington-Altus Private Counsel and Wellington-Altus Private Wealth —the top-rated* wealth advisory company in Canada and one of Canada's Best Managed Companies. With more than $20 billion in assets under administration and offices across the country, Wellington-Altus identifies with successful, entrepreneurial advisors and portfolio managers, and their high-net-worth clients.

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The opportunity:

Reporting to the Senior Project Manager, the Project Coordinator will be responsible for providing support to project teams. The incumbent will help plan, asses, design and manage the delivery of cross-functional, technical, and business programs and projects of varying complexity and size, within scope, timelines, and quality targets. This includes facilitating the Portfolio Demand Intake process, supporting resource and capacity planning, along with managing Project Management Framework (PMF) standards, templates, systems, and repositories.

Key responsibilities include:

• Assisting the PMO team with the creation and coordination of project schedules, activities, and project support documentation.
• Facilitating and supporting aggregation of project information, status updates and reporting for project and digital product teams.
• Maintaining project records/files and organizing documentation for due diligence.
• Managing and maintaining Project Management Framework (PMF) standards, workflows, templates, systems, and repositories.
• Ensuring teams remain aligned on Project Management Framework through project controls and services.
• Creating and maintaining management dashboards and executive summaries.
• Leading resource management support including roll on – roll off, resource tracking and reporting.
• Communicating project / program management statuses to different stakeholders as required.
• Facilitating Project Portfolio Demand Intake and Review processes from ticketing, workload assignment, and risk and issue management with PMO team.
• Engaging in thought leadership and sharing ideas within and across teams.
• Driving innovation and continuous learning to proactively tackle disruptors.
• Applying a digital mindset and engaging in continuous learning to update digital skills, digital thinking, and analytical thinking capabilities.
• Championing a respectful workplace that fosters diversity and inclusion.
  

• Acting as a change champion to drive and sustain organizational enterprise, digital and technological capabilities.
• Promoting and championing needs that improve our Risk Profile ensuring secure, reliable solutions designed for scale and protection.
• Promoting a 'risk aware' culture; encouraging and rewarding desired risk outcomes and quality decision making; constructively challenging and escalating early.
• Ensuring procedures are followed and reported on as required.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• A college or University degree in business, finance, or computer science.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in an IT project environment.
• Experience managing both Waterfall and Agile project methodologies; PMP or CSM designation is an asset.
• Start-up experience is an asset.
• Knowledge of Project Management Domain.
• PMP or CSM, Business Analyst MBA is an asset.

• An ability to champion innovative and progressive approaches, processes, tools, and solutions.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, ability to work proactively and collaboratively.
• A demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and drive constant improvement to achieve results.
• Experience making hard trade-offs and decisions with running multiple, competing priorities concurrently.

Conditions of employment:

• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
• A background check, satisfactory to the employer, may be required of the successful applicant prior to commencing employment.

Wellington-Altus is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community and welcomes applications from women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and genders. All qualified individuals who would contribute to the further diversification of our organization are encouraged to apply.

If you require accommodation for the recruitment process, please let us know at the point of application.

To apply:

Click the Apply For This Job button to submit your resume, cover letter and salary expectations. You will be contacted if you are selected for an interview. More information about working at Wellington-Altus can be found on our website at www.wellington-altus.com.