project management specialist - policy and governance.

Are you a bilingual Project Manager with a strong background in non-IT, public policy, economic, or business governance projects?

Do you excel at establishing fit-for-purpose project frameworks, managing evolving project scopes, and stabilizing in-flight initiatives?

Are you seeking a long-term contract mandate with a premier national financial policy institution in Ottawa?

If so, we invite you to explore this exceptional opportunity!

About the Role:
Our client, a prominent Canadian financial policy institution based in Ottawa, is seeking a highly skilled Senior Project Management Specialist to join their policy and research division.

In this role, you will provide strategic project management expertise and governance support for high-profile economic policy, payments system, and institutional governance initiatives. You will establish and maintain robust project delivery structures, coordinate inputs across multidisciplinary teams (policy, research, operations, and technology), and support senior-level decision-making forums. Apply today!

Advantages
Multi-year contract stability
High-impact national scope and resume prestige

Specialized "Non-IT" Niche Leadership

Responsibilities
- Project Governance & Frameworks: Establish, implement, and maintain fit-for-purpose project governance structures, reporting mechanisms, and execution controls to ensure clear accountability and timely progress.
- Workplan & Scope Control: Develop, maintain, and monitor detailed project workplans (timelines, dependencies, risk logs). Ensure all scope changes are documented, evaluated, and managed via formal change control processes.
- Executive & Senior Briefings: Plan and execute senior-level governance briefings and executive forums, including drafting high-quality deck materials, tracking decisions, and driving action-item follow-ups.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Coordinate inputs across diverse internal and external stakeholder groups spanning policy, research, operations, and technology.
- Project Turnaround & Recovery: Assess and stabilize in-flight projects by addressing governance gaps, realigning stakeholder expectations, and re-establishing clear delivery roadmaps.

Qualifications
- Education: University degree or college diploma in Policy, Public Administration, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- Non-IT Project Management Experience: recent and demonstrated experience managing non-IT related projects.
- Multi-Stakeholder Leadership: experience leading complex initiatives with evolving scopes, maintaining project continuity while managing formal change control processes.
- Governance & Recovery Expertise: Proven ability to design governance structures from scratch and a track record of stabilizing/recovering in-flight projects.
- Language Proficiency: Fully bilingual in both English and French (written and verbal).
- Residency: Must have resided in Canada for at least 5 continuous years to satisfy security clearance guidelines.
- Recognized project management certifications (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum).
- Prior experience working within central banking, public sector policy, economic research, or financial regulatory environments.

Summary
If you meet the above-listed criteria, register for a Randstad account online if you have not yet registered, and please apply directly online. We appreciate all applicants and those interested in this opportunity, however, only those with relevant experience will be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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