Lead, Organization Design and Effectiveness

1 day ago


Newmarket Ontario, York region, Canada Region of York Full time

POSITION PURPOSE


Reporting to the Manager, Organizational Design and Compensation, this position is responsible for providing guidance and support for designing and implementing an organizational framework to optimize structure, efficiency, and performance, aligning with the Region’s strategic goals. This includes acting as the subject matter expert in organizational design, advising business unit leaders and Regional staff on sound organizational and job design practices.


MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES


  • Leads initiatives to assess, develop, and redesign organizational frameworks, structures, operating models, layers and span of control, roles, job level requirements, and reporting structures.
  • Collaborates with senior leadership to integrate organizational design with business strategy.
  • Provides direction in the development and implementation of organizational design plans, and policies and procedures ensuring consistency and alignment of all plans with broader corporate plans, standards, and business goals.
  • Establishes, implements, and maintains principles to govern the Region’s organizational and job design effectiveness, including span of control, levels of work, and support for workforce planning.
  • Leads the research and analysis on organization design needs, issues, and trends for management to make informed program and policy decisions.
  • Engages with stakeholders to gain support and buy-in for organizational design changes.
  • Collaborates with PEC partners and Department management staff, as organizational changes unfold, and provides expertise and perspective in line with established design principles, while ensuring business needs are met.
  • Working with the Organizational Design Specialist and using established key performance indicators (KPIs), evaluates the effectiveness of organizational design changes, provides reporting and analytics, and makes recommendations for improvements that are cost-effective and consistent with market trends, best practices, and the Region’s objectives.
  • Supports and executes change management for operating model redesign and transformation, establishment of new organizational capabilities, and integration into the overall business model.
  • Liaises with and proactively develops relationships with partners to facilitate the delivery of services.
  • Responds to customer enquiries directly and/or resolve difficult or highly sensitive complaints either verbally or in writing.
  • Provides input to or prepares reports, briefing notes, presentations, statistics, and analysis for Senior Management as requested.
  • Supervises staff, including recruitment, selection, hiring, scheduling, assigning and monitoring work, determining training and development needs, coaching and mentoring, conducting performance appraisals and determining/recommending disciplinary action up to and including dismissal in accordance with collective agreements, Regional policies and practices.
  • Ensures that operating staff work in a safe manner and utilize all required health and safety equipment and protective devices and follow all measures and procedures as required by the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations and Regional Policies.
  • Participates or acts as Department representative on various internal and external committees, task forces and focus groups, as directed.
  • Manages information in accordance with legislation and corporate standards.
  • Performs other duties as assigned, in accordance with Branch and Department objectives.


The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities, required of employees assigned to this job.


EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS


  • Successful completion of a University Degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration or related field or approved equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Organizational Design certification or equivalent Human Resources professional designation.
  • Minimum five (5) years directly related experience in organizational design, and organizational effectiveness, and minimum one (1) year of direct supervisory experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders to gain support for initiatives.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of relevant program development, applicable legislation and industry standards, and current practices.
  • Ability to demonstrate the Region's leadership and core competencies.
  • Demonstrated report writing, analytical and project management skills to meet program objectives and work to tight deadlines.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate programs and services in assigned program area, and to develop and implement change management plans.
  • Staff supervisory skills including knowledge of collective agreement administration and interpretation, labour relations principles and practices and relevant employment legislation.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to connect with a range of internal and external partners while focusing on fostering collaborative work relationships.
  • Strong communication, influencing and presentation skills with a strong customer focus.
  • Informed and active leadership to confront bias and systemic barriers and comply with or build inclusive practices in business processes, recruitment practices, team management, etc. to ensure inclusive and equitable workplace.
  • Intermediate skills in virtual platforms and MS Office Suite including the use of virtual platforms for conducting meetings and/or presentations.
  • Ability to travel to offsite locations, as required.
  • Ability to work outside regular business hours.


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