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- Job Category: Project Management
- Division \& Section: IDS Transit Expansion, Transit Program Mgmt \& Planning
- Work Location: City Hall, 100 Queen Street West
- Job Type \& Duration: Full-time, Permanent vacancy
- Salary: $113,684.00 - $155,217.00
- Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
- Affiliation: Non-Union
- Number of Positions Open: 1
- Posting Period: 25-Apr-2025 to 09-May-2025
Major Responsibilities
- Leads and manages the development of a portfolio of project management tools, including program frameworks, templates, standardized operating procedures, metrics, data visualization dashboards and trackers aimed at ensuring all aspects of a project from scope and schedule to budget and risks are effectively tracked and managed.
- Leads and manages complex government and multi-agency transit expansion initiatives and projects including managing intergovernmental relations and corporation-wide governance tables.
- Develops comprehensive reports and policy papers for presentation to senior management, administrative and Council committees, Council and stakeholders.
- Identifies, resolves and escalates, as appropriate, key issues in accordance with established transit governance structures.
- Provides leadership and oversight over specific projects and/or programs, including reviewing work of junior staff.
- Undertakes analysis and research to provide strategic advice on a variety of complex and multifaceted issues to senior management.
- Manages strategic and effective relations with other orders of government, public agencies and partners, and enables collaborative relationships across City divisions.
- Supports technical project teams, applying project management methodologies and establishing and tracking work plans, timelines and deliverables.
- Maintains a thorough and continuous awareness of initiatives in the City's administration, external organizations and other orders of government to inform transit expansion policy, program/project management and reports.
- Reviews, investigates, and analyzes legislation, regulations, agreements and strategies affecting the City's transit expansion portfolio.
- Prepares reports, briefings, presentations and speaking material.
Key Qualifications
- Post-secondary education in project management, public policy, planning, economics, business administration, or a related field or the approved equivalent combination of education and/or related experience. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required.
- Extensive experience developing and applying project management tools, frameworks, principles and methodologies, developing and using project and change management functions and tools, and tracking status.
- Extensive experience in developing internal reporting mechanisms and conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis, including development of reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.
- Extensive experience writing reports, briefings and policy papers for senior management that include strategic advice and recommendations.
- Extensive experience managing projects/initiatives or strategic initiatives within a large-scale organization.
- Superior ability to organize and coordinate staff across multiple divisions and agencies in a complex, multi-stakeholder project environment.
- Excellent verbal, written and oral communication skills with the demonstrated ability to write and present complex information to a variety of audiences including writing reports, briefing notes, facilitating working sessions, and delivering presentations.
- Excellent critical thinking, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
- Superior interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain effective stakeholder relationships.
- Superior understanding of the City's legislative framework and decision-making processes and strong understanding of the operation of other government organizations.
- Superior strategic, analytical, problem solving and conceptual thinking skills.
- Sound judgement and ability to handle matters of a sensitive nature.
- Excellent political acumen and understanding of public relations and building partnerships.
- Excellent ability to work effectively as a member of a team, collaboratively with others in a multidisciplinary environment and to work independently as required, within tight deadlines.
- Extensive proficiency in a variety of software packages including Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Project, and Outlook.
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