Senior Project Manager, Work Organization

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Posting Reason:

New Position

Job Type:

Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):

24

Job Family:

Project Management

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

Work Organization

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

N/A

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/05/21

Applications must be received BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/06/01

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

Non-Union Grade NC8 - 35 hrs

Salary Range:

$96,570.00 - $120,712.00

About Human Resources
Our Human Resources team is recognized for its collaboration and service excellence. Through the development of strategic partnerships, our dynamic team supports uOttawa’s vision and strategic plan by creating and delivering high-quality, innovative, and client-centered HR programs and services. Our focus is to attract, develop, retain, and inspire a talented, diverse, healthy, and engaged workforce. If you want to be part of an impactful team, work in a rewarding and enriching environment and have an innovative mindset, our HR team is the place where you belong! 

Position Purpose

Reporting to the Manager of Work Organization, responsible for leading the needs assessment, planning and implementation of a job description creation and management solution. Act as an official liaison between all stakeholders and the Work Organization sector to identify new technologies, systems and procedures that could be leveraged to the sector’s advantage. The incumbent will create standardized, organization wide content across all job families that serves as the basis for building a full job description catalogue.

In this job, your responsibilities will include:

• Project Management: Under the direction of the Manager, Work Organization, leads the planning and implementation of a job description creation and management system. Develops and implements project plans to ensure key timelines are met. Works closely with internal and external partners to obtain buy-in and alignment. Ensures that appropriate project controls and progress reports are prepared regularly and meets requirements, goals and deadlines

• Tool Development: Provides expert advice and guidance on all matters associated with business analysis, technology recommendations and implementation strategies to ensure a standardized approach that aligns all initiatives with the University’s vision and direction. 

• Communications: Develops communication plans with regard to project progress and community engagement.

What you will bring:

• University degree in business administration, or related field or a combination of education and relevant experience

• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in project coordination / project management

• Knowledge and understanding of job architecture frameworks, including job families, job functions, job levels, and career paths

• Knowledge of job description standards

• Strong writing skills

• Strong leadership skills with the capacity to influence and mobilize stakeholders to meet project goals

• Proven track record of successfully delivering projects on schedule by consistently meeting milestones, deadlines, and defined deliverables

• Experience contributing to a technical business solution

• Experience giving presentations in both official languages

• Incisive analytical thinking and attention to detail, and strong problem-solving abilities

• Experience in developing and applying processes, guides and forms

• Ability to adjust priorities in a changing dynamic environment and work with minimal supervision, showing initiative and leadership

• Bilingualism – French and English (written and spoken)

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Key Competencies at uOttawa:
Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: 
Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.
The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact [email protected] to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.
If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

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