Team Lead, Project Management Office
Role Overview
A newly created Team Lead position reporting to the Manager, Strategic Programs and Enterprise Delivery.
Provides day-to-day PMO leadership, oversees delivery practices, implements and sustains the PMO framework, and supports Project Managers.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the ASC
The Alberta Securities Commission administers Alberta’s securities laws, supports fair and efficient capital markets, and protects investors.
The IT team supports consistent, reliable, and secure service delivery and anticipates organizational technology needs.
Opportunity
A newly created Team Lead position reporting to the Manager, Strategic Programs and Enterprise Delivery.
Provides day-to-day PMO leadership, oversees delivery practices, implements and sustains the PMO framework, and supports Project Managers.
Team leadership and PMO operations
- Lead, coach, and support Project Managers; provide guidance and feedback on project practices, governance, and delivery planning.
- Coordinate team planning, assignments, workload balancing, intake, prioritization, resource allocation, and capacity planning.
- Build relationships with stakeholders, sponsors, and delivery partners; act as the operational liaison for PMO processes and support.
- Develop PMO training, onboarding materials, and guidance for consistent adoption of standards, tools, and processes.
Governance, reporting, and delivery
- Lead stage-gate and quality reviews of project readiness, deliverables, and governance compliance.
- Implement and maintain PMO controls, standards, templates, reporting, and portfolio management practices.
- Monitor risks, control gaps, non-compliance, and trends; recommend corrective actions and escalate concerns.
- Coordinate intake and portfolio reporting, providing management with insight into resources, risks, delivery performance, and trade-offs.
- Partner with Audit, Finance, and Risk teams on audits and audit-ready documentation, evidence, and analysis.
- Own Azure DevOps Portfolio Management processes as the business owner and power user; align configuration, workflows, and reporting.
- Monitor data integrity across status updates, RAID logs, finances, forecasts, schedules, dependencies, benefits, and reporting.
Qualifications and experience
- Degree or diploma in Business Administration, IT, Computer Science, Project Management, or related discipline; equivalent education and practical experience may be considered.
- 12+ years of progressive experience delivering or leading complex IT projects, digital or business transformations, or PMO functions in multi-project environments.
- At least 3–4 years leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing project management or other professional delivery teams.
- Experience with project planning, scope and schedule management, financial and benefits tracking, reporting, stage-gate reviews, delivery standards, PMO governance, and portfolio controls.
- Experience coordinating project resources and priorities across matrixed business, IT, vendor, and senior leadership stakeholders.
- Effective leadership, communication, stakeholder engagement, influencing, organization, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
- Project management training or certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or Lean are desirable; Azure DevOps portfolio tool experience is preferred.
Work arrangement
- The position works out of the ASC office in Calgary, Alberta, in a hybrid work environment.
Benefits
- The employer describes benefits including employer-paid coverage, health and dental, travel insurance, paid vacation, flex and sick days, family assistance, transportation allowance, flexible spending, and professional development.
- The employer also offers social and community-giving activities.
Application deadline
- The posting lists an application deadline of October 23, 2026.
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