PM-1060
Project Manager – Digital Shared Services
Project: Digital Shared Services
Role: Project Manager
Engagement: Full-Time, One Individual Resource
Work Location: Remote within Canada only
Organization: Shared Health / Digital Health, Manitoba
Project Overview
Digital Health, a Shared Health service, is responsible for facilitating the improvement and enablement of healthcare delivery transformation through the effective use of information and communication technology. The Digital Shared Services project focuses on delivering efficient and effective information management and communication technology processes across Manitoba's provincial health sector.
The Project Manager will provide senior-level project leadership for complex digital health and technology initiatives, working closely with clinical and business stakeholders, internal delivery teams, vendors, and project governance bodies. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, implementing, and reporting on projects that support digital transformation within a healthcare environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, control, and successful completion of complex information technology projects within a healthcare environment.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and status reporting.
- Provide regular project updates and recommendations to project steering committees, sponsors, senior management, and other governance bodies.
- Coordinate internal delivery resources, vendor partners, clinical teams, business stakeholders, and technical teams to achieve project outcomes.
- Lead projects involving Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, cloud-based collaboration services, and related digital workplace technologies.
- Coordinate the migration from on-premises email services to Microsoft Exchange Online, including planning, readiness, implementation, testing, deployment, and transition activities.
- Ensure software and technology solutions are safely implemented within clinical and business environments, with appropriate consideration for operational continuity and patient-care impacts.
- Develop and oversee testing strategies, test plans, test execution, defect management, acceptance activities, and implementation readiness.
- Lead organizational change management activities to ensure affected staff, clinical users, and business stakeholders are prepared for new technologies and processes.
- Apply structured organizational change management methodologies, including Prosci/ADKAR, to support adoption and successful transition.
- Identify and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation strategies.
- Facilitate project meetings, workshops, working sessions, and stakeholder consultations.
- Manage communications and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
- Coordinate training, communications, readiness, and adoption activities associated with technology implementations.
- Ensure project deliverables meet agreed scope, quality, schedule, and business requirements.
- Support project governance, documentation, decision-making, and escalation processes.
- Coordinate implementation and transition activities with operational teams to ensure sustainable adoption of delivered solutions.
Mandatory Qualifications
The successful candidate must possess:
- A valid Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- A valid Prosci (ADKAR) Organizational Change Management certification.
Proof of both certifications must be provided as part of the application.
Education
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PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner certification is required/preferred for evaluation and will be considered an asset.
- Relevant post-secondary education in information technology, computer science, business administration, project management, healthcare technology, or a related discipline is considered an asset.
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