The required services may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Assessing the organization’s capability to undertake and successfully deliver a project in the context of the overall program or portfolio priorities through strategic planning
- Specifying the general requirements of the project: developing, verifying and gaining acceptance of the project scope, budget, schedule and scope change control
- Assisting in the prioritization and assignment of projects within a larger program or portfolio of projects
- Managing several Senior Project Managers, each responsible for an element of the project or program or portfolio and its associated team (for example project and financial management)
- Identifying and assigning project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships, developing work plans, ensuring adequate human resources, and developing a productive team environment
- Providing advice and leadership in the development and assessment of potential options on project development, recommending a preferred option and developing an implementation strategy through the preparation of a business case or feasibility study
- Meeting, negotiating and gaining support from internal and external organizational stakeholders (for example senior government executives, private-sector interests, municipal interests, community groups, etc.)
- Developing project alternatives and identifying their administrative, organizational, economic, or technical feasibility
- Assisting in obtaining required project approvals from relevant stakeholders (internal approval, zoning, heritage, etc.) including the review and interpretation of municipal by-laws
- Undertaking due diligence activities for the acquisition or disposal of property (for example highest & best use studies, site selection studies)
- Developing real property master plans, detailed site development plans or land use plans analysing development initiatives (for example transportation or servicing studies, analysis of traffic, parking, pedestrian activity, transportation demand management or other urban planning issues)
- Preparing offer call documents to be used in property acquisition or disposal
- Examining and making recommendations concerning land title issues
- Identifying, obtaining and managing environmental approvals, permits or licenses
- Managing the implementation of a project or program to identify, analyze, plan, track and control progress on a continuous basis
- Reviewing and accepting (or requesting changes to) the overall planning, design development and implementation process, including feasibility, environmental, infrastructure, conceptual designs, the associated class of cost estimate, project scheduling project changes, issues management and approval documents
- Preparing life-cycle cost estimates using the discounted cash-flow method and sensitivity analysis
- Managing program changes in accordance with the change management process
- Developing risk management plans
- Managing safety as an integrated part of the construction project following accountability frameworks and documentation to ensure consistency of practice and due diligence
- Developing a Communications Plan that outlines the claims resolution process
- Developing a Communications Plan, press releases and questions and answers to media lines of inquiry
- Assisting in organizing media events or building tours for the public or senior management
- Producing camera-ready graphics of communication material or information panels for on-site exposition
