Senior Project Manager, HCM LMS

Location: Remote/Hybrid

Division: Information Technology, HR Capability Transformation and Experience

About The Salvation Army

For more than 130 years, The Salvation Army (TSA) has had the privilege of serving vulnerable people in communities across Canada and Bermuda. Last year, we helped over 2.1 million people, providing necessities of life such as food, clothing, and shelter. And our work goes well beyond that to including supporting people through unemployment, loneliness, finding church community, and responding to family challenges. We continually adapt to meet emerging needs.

These are exciting times at The Salvation Army as we launch a significant digital and business transformation. We are in the midst of revolutionizing our core capabilities to maximize service and mission outcomes. This will include an integrated platform for relationship and people management, learning, intranet and data warehouse. In order to achieve all this, we are now recruiting for a Senior Project Manager for our HCM and LMS implementation (Workday).

What You’ll Do

• Manage larger scale, complex, high profile Workday HCM and LMS implementation on time and within budget
• Contribute to continuous improvement of PMO framework
• Mentor and advise junior team members
• Create detailed project plans, including resources, issue identification, resolution processes, communications, risk management, and status reporting
• Ensure business requirements are clear and complete
• Plan all project deliverables, including scope, goals, milestones, key success factors, and changes required
• Produce project plans to include scope, stakeholder list, schedule, charter, budget, risk, mandatory documents, missions, goals, tasks and resource requirements.
• Manage project change requests as needed and resolve project issues/conflicts and breakdown project barriers
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Collaborate with process owners, analysts, consultants, and other experts to manage project tasks
• Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements

What You Bring

• University degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration, Commerce or Finance or IT-related degrees in Software Engineering, Computer Science, IT Management or Project Management
• Designation as a Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Minimum 7 years direct work experience in a project management capacity, at least 5 years of which delivered complex HCM and LMS solutions
• Minimum 2 years experience leading, negotiation, and managing the execution of vendor contracts
• Strong understanding of project management and systems development lifecycles
• Strong knowledge of current IT trends
• Skilled at planning, facilitating and leading high-impact, effective meetings with both technical and senior business participants
• Understands, models, and champions the strategic and tactical goals of the IT organization
• Must be conscientious and reliable with a strong commitment to customer satisfaction and problem resolution
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial
• Demonstrated personal commitment to continuous learning

What We Promise

• Belonging to a creative, dynamic team of IT professionals where what you do will make a difference in your own backyard and across Canada & Bermuda
• Continuous learning and growth through challenging work
• The chance to be part of a leading digital and business transformation for over 100,000 employees and volunteers
• An opportunity to launch and/or grow your career with a huge, stable, international not-for-profit organization
• We live our Core Values as a faith & values-based organization, we hire and serve people of all backgrounds, faiths, and traditions – there’s a place for everyone to belong here

How We Hire

We are committed to creating a workplace where people experience meaningful work, a sense of hope and optimism, an environment of trust, and inspired results. If this sounds like an environment in which you would like to work, apply here today!

We embrace equity, diversity, justice, inclusion and belonging and we’re committed to building a team that represents many backgrounds, perspectives and skills, representative of the communities we serve. The more inclusive we are, the better our work and workplace will be.

The Salvation Army offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment process. If you are contacted to participate in an interview or screening process, please advise us if you require accommodation.

We thank all applicants, and will contact candidates identified for interview. Internal Applicants, please speak with your manager about your intentions prior to submitting your application. Close date for internal applicants: January 22, 2023.