Senior Business Project Lead

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Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Information Systems and Technology, Level E Job Title Senior Business Project Lead Department OCIO | Salesforce Solution & Delivery Compensation Range $9,859.25 - $15,380.75 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job. Posting End Date June 9, 2026 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date. Job End Date June 30, 2029 At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. Job Summary UBC is undertaking a multi-year Student transformation project focused on improving specific priority functions that support the graduate student experience across UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses. This academically funded initiative seeks to modernize targeted business processes, support effective decision-making, and provide technologies to better support graduate students, faculty, and staff within UBC's complex operating model. The Senior Business Project Lead is accountable for maximizing business value and outcomes for this major enterprise transformation initiative. The role focuses on business process transformation, value realization, and governance, ensuring that every requirement and decision is anchored in measurable benefit and strategic alignment. While this position partners closely with Enterprise Platforms (including Salesforce), its primary accountability is business leadership of the transformation-ensuring robust stakeholder engagement, defining future-state processes, and system requirements, benefits, scope boundaries, and decision readiness to enable effective platform delivery. Organizational Status The Senior Business Project Lead works within a cross‑functional project team and reports directly to the Senior Manager, Constituent Engagement Platforms. The role receives strategic business direction from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) and and College of Graduate Studies Business Leadership Team, including the Assistant Vice‑Provost, Strategic Academic Initiatives; Assistant Dean, Strategic Technologies & Business Initiatives; and other designated senior academic and administrative leaders, as appropriate. The role operates within a matrix delivery environment, collaborating closely with the Project Manager for tactical delivery coordination, timelines, and milestones. The Senior Business Project Lead also works in close partnership with other UBC IT enterprise teams, including the Project Management Office (PMO), Integrations, Enterprise Architecture, Identity and Access Management, Privacy and Security, and Enterprise Data Governance teams, to ensure business solutions are aligned with institutional standards, regulatory requirements, and long‑term sustainability. Work Performed Specific Duties: Plan, organize, manage, and oversee business transformation and analysis activities, ensuring alignment to approved outcomes, value realization goals, and governance expectations. Plan, organize, manage, monitor and be responsible for the business analysis activities of projects. Understand business context, project justification, business goals, priorities, and constraints, and articulate these into clear value statements, success metrics, and decision artifacts for leadership review. Understand business context, project justification, business goals, and priorities and update and maintain documentation on such. Lead Foundational Analysis for complex initiatives: Synthesize disparate data points from decentralized stakeholders to identify root causes, data silos, and process bottlenecks and material value gaps, producing a clear, decision‑ready problem statement prior to solution design. Understand and apply business architecture concepts to ensure strategic alignment with organizational goals, outcomes and business value and to inform prioritization, scope trade‑offs, and sequencing decisions across phases. Recommend and support governance and stakeholder working group structures, facilitating discovery, analysis, and consensus‑building that informs future‑state design and executive decision‑making. Lead current‑state assessment and future‑state design activities, identifying transformation opportunities and gaps, and advising on practical pathways to achieve the approve

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