Manager, Policy Research

2 weeks ago

Pickering, Ontario, Canada Municipal Property Assessment Corporation Full time
Do you want to be part of a team helping to strengthen every community across Ontario? Are you interested in seeing the importance of your work firsthand?

Become a Manager, Policy Research & Strategy - Temporary Assignment up to 18 Months
with MPAC


The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is made up of a team of experts who understand local communities and assess every property in Ontario.

What we do provides the very foundation that municipalities use to base the property taxes needed to pay for the services we use every day.

Learn more.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism
MPAC is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism. We take important steps towards ensuring that all voices are respected, valued and being heard.

MPAC is dedicated to fostering an environment where employees can bring their full, unique and authentic selves and are inspired to do their best work.


What makes you great for this role?

You are service-oriented leader who can manage a team of professionals engaged in providing property assessment policy advice and legislative recommendations to MPAC and the Ontario Government.


We have:

  • A team of highly skilled, dedicated and collaborative staff
  • Leadership that supports you
  • An enterprise that embraces change
  • A work environment that has flexible work locations (including remote), hours of work and overall employee wellness support

You have:

  • At least five years' progressive experience with economic analysis and economic modelling, including sound knowledge of trends, issues, information management, data modelling, research issues and related legislation, acts, statutes, regulations and policies
  • Undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Economics, Public Policy, Statistics or a related field
  • Strong knowledge of the Assessment Act, Municipal Act, 2001, City of Toronto Act, 2006, O. Reg. 282/98 and other related legislation and regulations
  • Good understanding of appraisal techniques, including the three established methods for valuing property and ability to critically analyze valuation issues
  • Knowledge of change management principles and best practices to allow for business reengineering, process improvement and the quick introduction of new strategies and services
  • Excellent oral, written and strong presentation skills displaying comfort and confidence in speaking to large groups of internal and external stakeholders
  • Strategic and analytical ability to identify gaps and develop effective and lasting solutions
  • Proven leadership skills used to build effective teams and influence stakeholders

What you will do:

  • Support development of insights and mitigation strategies performing quantitative analysis for legislative, regulatory or policy changes
  • Provide interjurisdictional and evidencebased analysis to MPAC regarding legislative/regulatory or policy changes
  • Determine analytical approaches and data requirements through the development of work plans
  • Establish project expectations; coach colleagues/team members on approaches and monitors their progress; monitors for delivery and quality of product
  • Liaise with the Ministry of Finance and other government bodies to exchange data and information to support legislative/regulatory and policy changes
  • Engage government and other external stakeholders on issues of importance to MPAC through a strong strategic plan to advance department and corporate initiatives
  • Support assessment legislation and internal policy related projects by assigning, planning and researching issues, assembling project team members and preparing business cases
  • Build a rapport with internal/external industry experts to proactively assess trends and developments relating to tax policy initiatives
  • Promote a teambased and customeroriented approach to service delivery

Additional Information:

  • Requisition ID: 983
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Closing Date:
February 24, 2023

Ready to apply?


MPAC is committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment where all employees and members of the public feel valued, respected and supported.

We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflect the diversity of the public and communities we serve.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.


Job advertisements for positions that have been designated bilingual will be posted in both English and French on our website.

Positions that are not designated bilingual are not translated and are only posted in English on the English version of our website.

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