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About the role
- Senior Program Manager delivering complex programs and operational initiatives for Social Innovation Canada, a national charitable organization. Coordinating governance, budgets, risks, reporting, and cross-functional execution remotely.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful completion of assigned programs and projects
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and workback timelines
- Coordinate activities across project teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners
- Monitor project performance and resolve issues affecting timelines, budgets, resources, or deliverables
- Manage project interdependencies, competing priorities, and resource constraints across multiple initiatives
- Ensure projects meet agreed objectives, timelines, budgets, and resource allocations
- Establish and maintain project governance, controls, and reporting processes
- Prepare project status updates, dashboards, risk reports, and executive briefings
- Track progress against goals, timelines, budgets, and key performance indicators
- Maintain project documentation, decision logs, and reporting records
- Provide leadership with visibility into project performance, risks, dependencies, and emerging issues
- Identify and manage project risks, issues, and dependencies
- Develop mitigation plans and corrective actions; escalate critical issues and recommend resolutions
- Monitor project health and implement recovery plans when required
- Develop project budgets, forecasts, and resource plans with project leads
- Monitor expenditures and identify potential budget variances
- Coordinate and support allocation and utilization of project resources
- Improve project delivery practices, workflows, and operational processes
- Support standardized project management tools, templates, and reporting practices
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and document lessons learned
- Promote best practices across projects and operational initiatives
- Report to the CEO as an individual contributor focused on collaborative project and program delivery rather than direct people management
Requirements
- Relevant experience managing programs, projects, or operational initiatives; an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience will be considered
- Minimum five (5) years of experience managing programs, projects, or operational initiatives
- Demonstrated success delivering complex projects on time, within scope, and within budget
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities and deadlines
- Ability to work effectively in dynamic, evolving, and self-directed environments
- Strong understanding of project planning, governance, budgeting, risk management, and reporting practices
- Experience developing project plans, tracking deliverables, managing dependencies, and driving execution
- Strong experience working in remote or distributed teams using digital collaboration, communication, document management, and project management platforms
- Proficiency with Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Meet) and related collaboration tools
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, systems, and digital workflows
- Ability to build productive working relationships and contribute positively to a collaborative team culture
- Ability to take ownership, solve problems, and move work forward with minimal supervision
- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
- Experience working within a project management, operations, or project governance environment
- Experience leading organization-wide initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, external partners, vendors, or service providers
- Experience working in both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 environments
- Ability to accommodate core working hours from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM EST
- Some travel required
Benefits
- Flexible choice of four or five days per week, with salary prorated accordingly
- Flexible daily working hours
- Remote position
- Possibility of contract renewal based on organizational needs, project requirements, and available funding
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