We are looking for a curious, self-starting technical lead to join our team! If you thrive in a world-changing environment where you can combine your love for project design, team collaboration, and project execution, we want to hear from you!

Your education and experiences will have prepared you to participate in and contribute to the following:

• Running and orchestrating one or more technical projects simultaneously, including coordinating, planning, and tracking the progress of individuals and teams for various projects.
• Aligning development team activities with client and resource management.
• Providing technical mentorship where needed and conducting regular check-ins with team members on the project to ensure a solid support system.
• Developing project design and delivery framework, timelines and tracking milestones and deadlines.
• Managing customer experience as needed, including daily communications, scheduling touchpoints, presentations during touchpoints and final delivery, which can include preparing data/results, sharing documents, and customer follow-up.
• Regular check-ins with the project team.
• Bringing in projects at or under budget through efficient project scoping, scheduling and resourcing while ensuring re-usability/versatility of models.
• Guiding modelling efforts, and providing direct technical help with modelling and programming where needed to ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Validating and verifying results, as well as quality assurance of models, synthetic data, visual assets, final deliverables, etc.
• Conduct research and develop science-based models and translate research into validated and verified models.
• Prepare, deliver, and communicate project results and insights to inform critical policies and planning for customers.
• Work with various teams and initiatives to design, create, and finalize model environments that exceed customer expectations and deliver successfully.
• Provide education and promote public awareness through company media, such as project use cases, LinkedIn posts, etc.
• Contribute to team building and company education initiatives.

Who You Are:

• You have completed your education (advanced education an asset) in a scientific or engineering discipline or have equivalent experience.
• You have experience with leading projects for teams with diverse backgrounds (computer science, engineering, social science, science, mathematics, data science).
• You provide thoughtful and clear feedback to project members and remain curious and humble while brainstorming new ideas.
• You meticulously and creatively manage projects and team activities to keep work within budget.
• You are a big-picture thinker who thrives in an ambiguous environment.
• You are comfortable presenting project results and insights to customers and skilled at answering technical questions for non-technical audiences.
• You are a flexible team player, actively helping other team members.
• You are a quick learner interested in meeting new people, making new connections, and acquiring new skill competencies.
• You can adapt to challenging timelines and be flexible to the shifting needs of a fast-paced environment.
• Collaboration and transparent communication are valuable to you as a team member.
• You are willing to share skills and knowledge and work closely with other team members.
• Above all, you are respectful, inclusive and collaborative within RWI’s academically and culturally diverse team.
  

At RWI, we work remotely but like to get together now and again at the office or on the road. We are a close-knit, hardworking team that values workplace equity, inclusion, and diversity. All members of RUNWITHIT are Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) certified. GBA+ is an analytical process to assess how diverse women, men, and non-binary people may experience policies, programs, and initiatives. The “plus” in GBA+ acknowledges that GBA goes beyond biological (sex) and socio-cultural (gender) differences and recognizes the multiple identity factors that intersect to make us who we are: race, ethnicity, religion, age, and mental or physical disability. RUNWITHIT is a Certified Indigenous Business through the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business.