Senior Project Manager in Edmonton

Project Name: Artificial Intelligence Delivery and Enablement

Scope: AI Delivery & Enablement (AIDE) leads the Government of Alberta's adoption, delivery, and responsible use of artificial intelligence to enhance productivity, improve decision-making, and support better outcomes for Albertans. AIDE's approach rests on three mutually reinforcing pillars: capability building through the Alberta AI Academy; governed enterprise AI tools deployed under a unified access, training, and compliance model; and an operational delivery model that supports both new AI application builds and sustainment of live AI services.

The resources will report to the AIDE Executive Director and will be assigned to directors as priorities require. They will lead and support AI enablement projects across the branch, including:

• rolling out and managing enterprise AI licences, consumption and cost recovery across ministries delivering the AI cloud platform
• integration and access work that AI tools depend on aligning projects with governance, security, privacy and intake requirements
• supporting training, adoption and change management with ministry champions

They will also take pilots through to governed enterprise service. Current demand exceeds branch capacity, and these resources are needed to avoid delayed adoption and to continue successfully enabling our services and delivery obligations.

Work Streams: This role spans four connected work streams. Each Project Manager may lead projects in one or more of them, depending on branch priorities.

• Enterprise AI licence and consumption enablement.
• AI cloud platform and integration.
• Governance, security, privacy and intake alignment.
• Training, adoption and change management.

A recurring pattern across all four streams is moving capabilities from evaluation to governed enterprise service. This means taking an assessed request through intake and standing up a time-boxed pilot with a defined user cohort. It then means collecting use cases and feedback, and confirming that the platform is ready and that security and privacy approvals are in place.

The Project Manager will review and understand departmental and corporate policies, business rules, data requirements, information management and security classification obligations, responsible AI standards, and supporting system processes. They will ensure project objectives and schedules align with GoA and branch priorities. Resources report to the AIDE Executive Director and may support several directors and sponsors at once, so they must manage shifting priorities and dependencies across projects.

Duties:

• Responsible for the coordination and completion of AI enablement projects across licensing and consumption, cloud platform and integration, governance and security, and training and adoption.
• Oversees all aspects of assigned projects.
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, monitors and summarizes progress, and prepares reports for senior management on project status.
• Builds and maintains working relationships with branch directors, team members, vendors, ministries and other partners.

Project leadership and governance:

• Compile project charters and business/project plans, including the most suitable approach for each project, to ensure business objectives, cost transparency and data integrity are achieved.
• Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan stating objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits and budget.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects for different directors and sponsors, balancing shifting priorities, shared resources and cross-project dependencies, and escalating conflicts to the Executive Director as required.
• Work with project sponsors and the project management office to develop a project organization structure with clearly defined roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.
• Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans, and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.
• Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget and resources, and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks.
• Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks.
• Work within the standards defined by the project management office and, in the absence of standards, work with the project management office to define new standards.

Enterprise AI licence and consumption enablement:

• Plan and manage the rollout, allocation and lifecycle of enterprise AI licences across ministries.
• Manage the development and implementation of chargeback and cost-recovery mechanisms for AI licences and consumption-based services, in coordination with finance, procurement and ministry stakeholders.
• Support the onboarding of new providers, models and agents to the approved catalogue, including licensing terms, cost treatment and provisioning requirements.
• Establish and maintain reporting on licence utilization and consumption/spend, and translate that reporting into recommendations for leadership.

AI cloud platform and integration:

• Plan and manage integration and enablement work across cloud, on-premises and direct-to-provider AI platforms.
• Manage projects that document business requirements and design and deliver AI and cloud solutions that comply with, and contribute to, the Ministry's enterprise architecture, security and privacy requirements.
• Coordinate the technical and communication response required to avoid service disruption or unplanned cost increases.
• Plan the transition of new capabilities into ongoing operations, including support models, monitoring, operating documentation and handoff to operations teams.

Governance, security, privacy and intake alignment:

• Work through the branch intake and assessment process to confirm each project's scope, value, risk and priority before initiation.
• Obtain the approvals required from security, privacy, legal and enterprise architecture partners before a capability is released.
• Apply the branch's responsible AI standards and guardrails to project design, testing and release, and document how identified risks are addressed.

Training, adoption and change management:

• Coordinate with the Alberta AI Academy to plan role-based training and learning pathways for each rollout, including vendor-supported training.
• Develop requirements documentation, user-facing guidance, support pathways and knowledge articles required for a capability to be released as a supported service.
• Track training completion and adoption against targets, and recommend actions where uptake is below expectations.

Pilots to governed enterprise service:

• Plan and manage pilots of emerging AI capabilities from intake through to a recommendation on enterprise enablement.

Reporting and stakeholder management:

• Produce and package deliverables for presentation to internal support teams, steering committees, executive and ministerial audiences, and other project stakeholders.
• Take responsibility for ongoing client satisfaction, including managing peer-level client relationships and overcoming hurdles to ensure win-win solutions.