The Sinneave Family Foundation (Sinneave) – Background
The Sinneave Family Foundation is an operating foundation committed to a future where Autistic adults live, learn, work and thrive and realize their desired futures. We work to reduce barriers and enhance opportunities for Autistic youth and adults. Sinneave operates The Ability Hub in Calgary as an inclusive centre for innovation, learning and connection.
Job Snapshot
Sinneave is recruiting for a Project Manager to oversee a range of potential initiatives focused on employment, housing, and advocacy for Autistic and neurodivergent Canadians. As the Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating a diverse range of projects, ensuring alignment to objectives, maintaining clear timelines, and driving long-term sustainability. The Project Manager will develop and implement project plans, coordinate budgets and contracts, and build relationships with project partners and collaborators. A strong focus on collaboration, process improvement, and best practices will be essential to ensure successful project execution and impact.
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled project manager to play a critical role in advancing neuroinclusive employment, housing, and advocacy efforts with impacts at a local, regional and national scale.
This is a 2-year term position and pay is commensurate with job requirements and experience within a range ($85,000 - $95,000 per year). Qualifications and experience will be taken into consideration. Sinneave also offers a comprehensive benefits program.
Please see our websites https://sinneavefoundation.org, https://employment-works.ca, https://worktopia.ca, https://neuroinclusive-solutions.ca for information on some of our current projects you may be involved with.
Work Context
In this role, you should expect:
1. A flexible work schedule five days per week (Monday to Friday), for a total of 37.5 hours each week, typically scheduled between the hours of 7am and 7pm to accommodate stakeholders working in different time zones across the country.
2. Some evenings and weekends may be required to attend meetings, networking and other related opportunities.
3. To work in an open office environment. Cubicles can be adjusted to create a sensory friendly environment. Bookable spaces are available for meetings, focused work, etc.
4. An option to consider a hybrid work arrangement, that includes some work from home.
5. A mix of independent and team-based work all of which will include contact with others (face-to-face discussions, Teams, Zoom, phone, email etc.).
6. Occasional travel within Canada is expected.
Skills and Competencies
To be effective in this role, you must have the following skills and competencies:
1. Management & Coordination Skills
· Knowledge of project management concepts, practices and procedures and change management tools and processes.
· Coordinating & Planning - organizes people and activities to support the overall project.
· Managing Resources - monitors financial resources and activities within scope, ensuring utilized funds conform to objectives and purpose.
· Managing Risk - able to identify and assess project-related risks and determine procedures to be followed to reduce or avoid their impact.
· Managing Change - able to plan and implement strategies for effecting change, communicate the effects of change, and provide guidance and support to those affected by change.
2. Communication Skills and Abilities
· Advising and Consulting - providing guidance and consultative advice to enable decision-making about tasks, situations, and processes.
· Liaising and Networking - developing contacts and connections and exchanging information with others to advance project objectives.
· Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships - Developing respectful, constructive, and cooperative working relationships with colleagues, and internal and external stakeholders, and maintaining them over time.
3. Digital Skills
· Comprehension - effectively use Microsoft Windows Operating System and Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point), and online meeting platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom to support virtual team coordination and stakeholder engagement.
· Proficiency - able to use project management software tools for task tracking, workflow management, and team collaboration.
· Learning - If not familiar with, then keen to learn how to work within an extensive outcomes-oriented database, including data entry and oversight, quality control, and enhanced extraction and reporting.
Personal Attributes and Abilities
To be successful in this role, you require the following personal qualities:
1. Initiative - taking on responsibilities and challenges, proposing, doing or organizing something by oneself without being prompted by others (ability to work independently).
2. Judgement - making considered decisions or coming to sensible conclusions (ability to problem solve).
3. Tolerance of Ambiguity - able to function in an environment where there is a degree of unpredictability of work activities (the focus of work may vary week to week).
4. Collaborative - works cooperatively while being supportive and inclusive of others to achieve a common goal.
Qualifications and Experience
Required
· A post-secondary education in a relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Project Management, Public Administration, Social Sciences, or a related discipline).
· 3 to 5 years prior work experience in project coordinator and/or management, overseeing multiple and varied projects.
· Equivalent experience in lieu of a degree may be considered, especially for candidates with substantial hands-on project management experience in nonprofit, government, or social impact sectors.
Considered an Asset
· Knowledge gained through lived experiences and/or experience working directly with and advocating for those who are neurodivergent considered an asset.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The incumbent of this role will perform the following duties:
Project Coordination & Oversight
· Ensure seamless management of multiple projects, aligning goals, timelines, and priorities across a range of initiatives.
· Utilizing preferred project management tools, develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and milestones for multiple projects
· Implement best practices, standardize processes, and ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and expectations.
· Lead proposal submission process if required, including writing and editing, and ensuring all timelines are met.
· Support program scaling efforts by engaging new project collaborators, planning for future funding, and strengthening long-term sustainability strategies.
Stakeholder Communication & Engagement
· Maintain clear and consistent communication with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment on objectives, progress, and changes.
· Guide, support, and motivate project teams, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
Contract Management & Budget Oversight
· Monitor budgets, control costs, and ensure financial accountability for each project.
· Draft, review, and negotiate contracts with project collaborators.
· Ensure compliance with contractual obligations and project guidelines.
· Maintain organized and accessible records of all contracts and amendments.
Risk & Issue Management
· Identify potential challenges in project implementation and proactively develop solutions to mitigate risks.
Performance Monitoring & Reporting
· Support data collection efforts and track project progress against key metrics.
· Develop formats to provide regular status updates to project leadership groups.
· Make data-driven decisions to improve efficiency.
Other tasks and projects as required.
Sinneave will use a multi-stage assessment and selection process. The first stage of the assessment process will invite selected candidates to draw from their experience to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and competencies related to certain aspects of the role. The second stage will invite selected candidates to participate in an interview.
As an inclusive employer, that is open and flexible in its thinking and approach to recruiting, all candidates invited to the assessment and interview process for this role, will be provided an opportunity to consider available options and advise us of their needs or preferences.
Please send Applications and cover letters electronically to:
Norm Lepitre, Director of Administration and HR
norm.lepitre@sinneavefoundation.org
Or by mail or fax to:
The Sinneave Family Foundation
Suite 300, Child Development Centre
3820 - 24 Ave NW
Calgary, AB
T3B 2X9
Fax (403) 284.9298
www.sinneavefoundation.org
Application Deadline: When the position has been successfully filled.
Projects
EmploymentWorks
Project to support persons with disabilities to prepare for, find, and maintain employment or become self-employed, thereby increasing their economic participation and independence. As the ‘backbone organization’ of the EmploymentWorks (EW) national project, Sinneave supports the delivery of programming and services across Canada.
NEUROinclusive Workforce Solutions
Sinneave delivers a service called NEUROinclusive Workforce Solutions, which offers human resource and neuroinclusion consultative support as well as training and education for employers who want to diversify their workplaces and create inclusive and accessible work environments for employees with disabilities by increasing their neuroinclusion skills and capacities.
National Autism Network
The Sinneave Family Foundation and the Autism Alliance of Canada (AAC) will lead a National Autism Network (NAN) to facilitate the implementation of activities related to the Federal Framework for Autism in Canada and Canada’s Autism Strategy.
