Senior Advisor, Enterprise Portfolio Management (contract) - 126 EN

Role overview

Team mandate

• Govern strategic initiatives, balance the portfolio, and visualize risks against enterprise strategy.
• Ensure initiatives follow the Initiative Lifecycle Framework and approved delivery standards.
• Maintain Planview as the system of record and review data quality for financial management and portfolio performance.
• Create centralized reports showing progress against strategic objectives and enterprise scorecards.

What you will do

• Provide governance oversight across lifecycle gates, checkpoints, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Apply independent second-line challenge and support coordination with internal audit.
• Improve governance frameworks, portfolio processes, lifecycle processes, change requests, and financial governance.
• Optimize Planview and portfolio tooling for reporting, data quality, and decision support.
• Support program reviews, business cases, change governance, strategic planning, and portfolio modeling.
• Prepare leadership for governance readiness and IOC and EELG planning cycles.
• Lead executive- and board-level transformation portfolio reporting.

Required qualifications

• Have an undergraduate degree in business administration, project management, or a related field.
• Have at least 7 years of experience in enterprise portfolio management, governance, or advisory roles.
• Be able to work across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Understand portfolio and project management frameworks including PMBOK, Lean Portfolio Management, and Agile.
• Have experience with governance frameworks, lifecycle processes, and compliance oversight.
• Demonstrate strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Planview or similar portfolio management tools is preferred.
• Exposure to financial governance, audit, or large-scale transformation programs is preferred.
• PMP, Agile, or Lean Portfolio Management certification is preferred.
• Bilingual English and French capability is preferred.

Compensation

• The salary typically ranges from CAD 96,557 to CAD 128,743 annually, based on qualifications and experience.

Work arrangement

• The role follows a hybrid work model and can be performed from EDC’s headquarters in Ottawa.
• Employees currently work from the office two days per week, increasing to three days per week beginning in September 2026 through a phased approach.

Employment details

• Employment type: contract or temporary assignment for 12 months.
• The application deadline is September 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET.

Eligibility

• Candidates must be able to work legally in Canada at the time of application and meet government security screening requirements.