Business Consultant

Company Description

With over 25 years of experience and with a Big 5 pedigree, we provide both the public and private sector industries with Business Consulting Services designed specifically to provide the optimal solution to their large scale Business and Information system needs.

Job Description

The Business Consultant will assist the organization to improve their performance and attain specific objectives, primarily through organizational analysis and the development of business plans and business cases.

This engagement will require senior consulting resources with demonstrated management consulting skills and experience. The engagement itself will require significant experience in Information Management (“IM”) and IT.

• Lead, facilitate and document strategic plans and priorities, aligning to Department vision;

o Identify projects to achieve this vision;

o Facilitate stakeholder workshops and focus groups;

• Prepare and present strategies and information to steering committees and project groups;
• Prepare and deliver presentations about initiatives or issues to executives and staff, steering committees, project groups and Service Alberta personnel and other stakeholders;
• Assist with risk management and issues management
• Develop and execute change management plans and communication plans
• Develop business cases through a consultative approach with business sponsors and key stakeholders, identifying benefits and performance measure indicators;
• Document initiative/project backgrounds, descriptions, environmental analyses, financial modeling, alternatives, impacts, risks, cost-benefit analyses, recommendations, implementation strategies, and approval processes;
• Provide quality assurance services throughout the business case development to ensure completeness and consistency of documentation, which could include content review;
• Identify risks associated with business cases and their implementation; and
• Integrate and align multiple business cases; understand and document dependencies.

Qualifications

• Post Secondary Degree or Diploma
• A currently active CAPM, PMP or PgMP Certification as issued by the Project Management Institute or equivalent;
• a currently active CMC designation as issued by a member institute of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes or equivalent.
• Previous experience working within a Provincial or Federal Government Agency

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.