Project Leader

Duties
The incumbent will be the project management leader and:
• Manages medium to large-scale projects or leads a sub-component of multi-dimensional projects. Medium projects have timelines of up to one year in duration; greater than $500,000 in project funds; 5 to 10 project resources, including third party service providers; and pose medium risks to operations or a temporary disruption to operations. Large scale projects have multi-year timeline duration; a significant resource base (multi-million-dollar budget) with multi-dimensional/functional project teams; and high risk to operations, with the potential to disrupt services to external clients and/or departmental operations.
• Facilitates and leads planning committee meetings, engaged to consult with and gather information from clients/stakeholders regarding their project requirements; proposes project methodologies; and seeks agreement and understanding of roles and responsibilities, agreements to proposed joint activities and deliverables, cost sharing and reporting requirements.
• Leads key project management functions throughout the project life cycle such as project design; planning; activity planning; risk management/mitigation; stakeholder engagement; progress reporting; and post-project assessments.
• Supervises/directs an integrated team of employees, consultants, contractors and external service providers.

Work environment
Working with the RCMP, a world-renowned innovative organization, you will experience meaningful work and have a real impact on the daily operations as well as job satisfaction and knowing you are making a real difference. The RCMP hires public service employees in a wide variety of disciplines to support our police officers at detachments and offices. Public service employees play a critical role in delivering services to our communities and supporting our local, provincial and national policing priorities. For every successful police operation, there is a team of public service employees providing administrative support in order to help police officers and investigators to accomplish their mandate. These employees play a critical role in delivering services to our communities and supporting our local, provincial and national policing priorities. By hiring the best candidates to staff our public service positions, we are helping police officers accomplish their law and order enforcement mandate. If you wish to provide administrative support to the RCMP, please submit your application!

Intent of the process
To fill one vacant indeterminate position in Winnipeg, MB and to create successful pool of candidates for similar position for different tenures such as indeterminate, term, part-time, assignment, deployment, secondment, acting, etc.

Positions to be filled
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Important messages
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HOW TO ANSWER SCREENING QUESTIONSWhen submitting an application to this selection process, you will be prompted to answer screening questions concerning the essential education, and the essential and asset experience qualifications. Your responses to these questions will be used as a primary source of information and your resume may only be used to validate this information. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.• Provide responses in sentence format.
• Each response must include concrete, specific examples that speak directly to the experience sought.
• Each example must include WHEN and WHERE the example took place, background of each situation, WHAT you did, HOW you did it, what your role was in the situation, and what was the outcome.
• Focus on what you did. In referring to an experience achieved in the context of a team, set your role apart from the role(s) of others.
• Simply listing your job duties, or indicating 'refer to resume', is not sufficient.
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Communication for this process will only be sent via email. As the applicant, it is your responsibility to ensure accurate contact information is provided and that you inform our office via email of any updates as required. Ensure you include an email address you can access from home and that it accepts email from unknown users. You are strongly encouraged to check your email on a regular basis, including your junk mail folder.
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An exam may be administered. An interview may be administered. Reference checks may be sought.

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Top Secret security clearance - Enhanced reliability with top secret.

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Willing and able to work overtime as required.

Willing and able to travel by various modes of transportation (including commercial and light aircraft) up to and including remote locations.

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Successful completion of a secondary school diploma or an acceptable combination of education, training, and/or experience.

Recent** and significant *** experience leading the development and/or management of projects in one or more than one field related to continuous improvement, business efficiency, new process/technology implementation or similar.(** Recent is defined as experienced acquired within the last two (2) years).
(***Significant is described as a minimum of three (3) years in a paid position where the primary duty is managing projects).

Experience preparing at least three (3) different types of project management related written reports including but not limited to: business cases, briefing notes, project charters, project plans, project status reports.

Experience in researching complex**** issues and providing strategic solutions to senior management***** (****Complex issues is defined as those involving multiple stakeholders, financial implications, policy impacts, and/or time constraints).
(*****Senior management is defined as executive level - Director or higher).

Experience leading a team – either through leading project team(s) or supervising multiple direct reports or managing temporary resources assigned to a project under your management.

Experience managing a diverse portfolio of projects spanning various business lines. (Examples could include: procurement related projects, IT related projects, HR/organizational related projects etc.,)

Ability to transfer concepts, ideas or information into strategies and plans.

Ability to communicate effectively orally.

Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

Ability to conduct research, analyze issues and determine viable options and recommendations

Ability to supervise and/or mentor staff.

Working effectively with others.

Demonstrating integrity and respect.

Showing initiative and being action-oriented.

Adaptability.

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Applied / assessed at a later date

English essential - Language requirements: English Essential

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Graduation with a degree from a recognized university with specialization in business administration, social sciences or a related field.

Additional coursework or training related to the position, for example change management or project management.

Professional certification (or working towards) related to the position (e.g., PMP, Lean/Six Sigma Belt, Prosci Change Management).

Experience using statistical or data management tools to manipulate, compile and interpret statistical data to create reports and other analytical or business intelligence tools.

Experience with the following software: SharePoint (page owner, site owner), MS Project, MS Excel (formulas, pivot tables).

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Preference will be given to veterans first, followed by Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of jobs located in Nunavut or Yukon. For positions located in Nunavut, qualified Inuit enrolled under the Nunavut Agreement will be appointed first. For positions located in Yukon, qualified Yukon First Nations will be appointed first, followed by qualified Indigenous persons.

Learn more about preference to veterans.

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