About Us

We are Special Projects champions

Founded in 2016, KOJA Consulting is a Vancouver-based consulting firm offering fractional project management and leadership to teams looking to create efficiency or solve a problem.

After being sought out by her professional network to support their project efforts, KOJA’s founder Mel Ifada, identified a gap in the market for projects that would benefit from professional leadership but were smaller in size than traditional projects.

Large companies as well as small teams, charities, and not-for-profits – everyone, it seemed, had a wish list of random projects that they needed to attend to.

And so KOJA was born!

Whether it’s a 2-week or 2-year goal, KOJA partners with you to strategically solve underlying problems that lead to triple-bottom-line profit leaks.

Part time costs, senior-level experience

Gain the benefit of an experienced senior manager’s guidance and direction to drive results without the costs of a full time hire.

Traditionally, project managers are hired for full-time roles and long-term projects. KOJA offers the same professional expertise to lead part-time projects when hiring a new employee is not required.

No project is too big or too small

We meet your needs, based on the size and complexity of your project.

Whether it’s a 2-week or 2-year project, we will match you with a project manager with the right experience and skill set to ensure a successful outcome.

We take pride in completing projects on time and on budget, and finally checking those projects off your wish list.

Clients retain complete control

By providing comprehensive close out documentation, we ensure that your team is trained and has all the information they need to take ownership of the resulting project, without needing to continue to rely on KOJA.

It could be administrator logins for a new CRM or website, the working files for documentation, report and survey data – you’ll get it all.

“KOJA has always completed projects on time and on budget. Leave-behind materials have been through and appropriate for the team. We now plan our projects and submit grant applications with KOJA top of mind to lead our projects.”

“We initially engaged KOJA Consulting to undertake a short compliance review project. The process was efficient and thorough and we have continued to hire KOJA every year since to lead a wide variety of strategic projects with and for our team, including several critical RFP development to project close-out projects.”

“KOJA has undertaken a wide variety of projects for our team, and always completed them on time and on budget. KOJA is quick to understand the depth and breadth of stakeholders and identify risks at all points in time. Communication and reporting has always been timely and appropriate.”

“Our team had capacity and skill-set issues to lead strategic projects internally. KOJA filled this gap for us and brought even more to the table than we expected. It has been hugely advantageous to have input and insight from someone who has a fresh perspective and can offer different solutions to how we’ve always done things.”

“KOJA offers practical, accessible, and thoughtful solutions at every stage of every initiative. KOJA’s understanding of the end-user experience has been critical to the success of each project.”

“We have engaged KOJA Consulting for a number of short and long term projects. KOJA Consulting supported us through a large accreditation project with a short turn-around and a hard deadline. They very quickly got up to speed with the complex requirements, developed a team schedule and kept us on track. The end result was that we were awarded the maximum reaccreditation term with no deficiencies.”

“Our success in the project was directly attributable to KOJA Consulting’s coordination. Koja Consulting also provides ongoing support for a client committee/advisory group, driving the groups agenda forward with meeting and project coordination, document management, scheduling, agendas/minutes and action items. Our experience has proven that KOJA has very strong communication and follow through skills, in addition to all the other attributes of a trustworthy project manager and administrator.”