Senior Project Manager – Strategic Initiatives

Rocky View County values our employees and provides a welcoming and stable work environment where positive energy, creativity, and a service mindset are encouraged. We seek individuals who enjoy making a difference and contributing meaningfully to a vibrant community. Our valued and diverse team of 500+ employees are provided with the same concern, respect, and caring attitude as the over 40,000 people who call Rocky View County home.

At Rocky View County we value employee work/life balance. Staff are provided with opportunities to grow professionally while being supported with paid training, a competitive salary, benefits after 30 days, 27 paid days off in their first year, plus general holidays, a pension plan, paid sick time, and a hybrid work environment for eligible positions.

Reporting to the Manager, Intergovernmental Services & Economic Development, the Senior Project Manager - Strategic Initiatives leads the coordination, planning, implementation, and evaluation of complex strategic initiatives and special projects. This position will initially be assigned to the Prairie Economic Gateway initiative and may transition to other County priorities as organizational needs evolve.

• Operating in a complex, high-profile, multi-jurisdictional environment, this role integrates project and program management, intergovernmental alignment, infrastructure and servicing planning, funding strategy, governance support, stakeholder engagement, and issue resolution. The role provides senior-level advice and recommendations related to project scope, implementation sequencing, budgets, funding opportunities, partnership structures, agreements, and risk management.
• The Senior Project Manager works across County departments, partner organizations, other municipalities, governments, developers, utility providers, Indigenous partners, consultants and other stakeholders to advance assigned initiatives from strategic planning through implementation. The role requires political acuity, sound judgement, relationship-building, innovation, and the ability to influence outcomes across organizations with diverse mandates and decision-making processes.

Strategic Project Leadership

• Lead assigned strategic initiatives and special projects from planning through implementation, ensuring alignment with Council direction, County priorities, approved budgets, governance requirements, and partner commitments.
• Develop and maintain integrated project and program management, including workplans, critical paths, milestone tracking, decision logs, risk registers, issue tracking, and reporting frameworks.
• Define and coordinate project scope, priorities, dependencies, servicing needs, implementation requirements, budget assumptions, and strategic risks in collaboration with the Manager and relevant County departments.
• Monitor progress across multiple work streams and identify emerging risks, barriers, or interdependencies; resolve issues where appropriate and elevate complex matters with analysis, options, and recommended actions.
• Coordinate studies, technical work, consulting assignments, and implementation planning required to advance assigned initiatives.
• Support the transition of project components to the appropriate County department(s), external partner(s), or implementation bodies as project elements move into execution and operations.

• Provide senior strategic advice and recommendations regarding regional implementation, infrastructure and servicing coordination, development phasing, cost-recovery opportunities, governance models, and partnership structures.
• Support alignment between strategic planning, servicing requirements, land use approvals,…