Manager of Parks and Open Space

4 weeks ago

Owen Sound, Canada The City of Owen Sound Full time

**Manager of Parks & Open Space**
**Permanent Full Time**

**Job Posting #: 2023-42**
**Closing Date: Friday, November 24, 2023**

The City of Owen Sound is seeking a dedicated professional to fill a permanent full-time role of
Manager of Parks & Open Space. The position is responsible for providing overall strategic leadership in the management, maintenance and operations of the City’s Parks and Open Space system, including Greenwood Cemetery, forestry and River District maintenance and beautification.
The Manager is also responsible for the supervision of the City’s facility booking and community recreation programs. The Manager is the main point of contact with the Manager of Public Works and works closely to review and coordinate operational work plans with the Public Works division to find efficiencies and align resources. The position is responsible for ensuring a healthy, productive, and safe environment for staff while ensuring that these spaces are available for safe use by the public. The City has 48 parks (536 acres) which feature a range of amenities and attractions as well as Greenwood Cemetery (43 acres).

Owen Sound is a diverse and culturally rich community located on the southern shores of Georgian
Bay in Southern Ontario, approximately two hours north of Toronto, and on the doorstep of the Bruce

Peninsula. Owen Sound is the largest urban community in Grey and Bruce counties characterized by a magnificent harbour and bay, two winding rivers, tree-lined streets, an extensive parks system, and tree-covered hillsides and ravines.

Owen Sound is a place where you can stay active, indoors and out, in all seasons. Many of our most popular recreational sports, such as biking, hiking, golf, swimming, motorcycle touring, and ATV riding, take advantage of our geography and natural assets: gently rolling hills, protected forests and parkland, and waterways flowing into Georgian Bay. Winter doesn't have to put a halt to your outdoor fun. We have plenty of snow sports when the frost hits and snow flies, from skiing and snowshoeing to snowmobiling and skating. Prefer to exercise indoors? We have several sports facilities to choose from, including a modern YMCA with indoor pools and ice rinks and the City is home to the OHL Owen Sound Attack hockey team.

**Core Competencies**:
**1. Diversity and Inclusiveness - **Ability to interact effectively with diverse individuals, groups and communities and to incorporate inclusive and equitable actions, attitudes, and knowledge in behaviours, practices, and policies

Builds equity into plans to embrace inclusion and diversity. Communicates the importance of delivering services that address equity, and meet the unique needs of diverse groups.

**2. Accountability and Ethics** - Ability to take responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work, and the achievement of work goals and objectives while demonstrating support for the City’s values, ethics, regulatory requirements, and professional code of conduct.

Promotes and aligns others to the City’s ethics, values, and culture. Provides guidance to others to ensure they understand the implications of behaviours, and how to act in an appropriate manner.

**3. Collaboration** - Ability to build and maintain effective and constructive working relationships, partnerships, and networks with others

Actively seeks opportunities for collaboration and builds networks.

**4. Communication** - Ability to communicate and interchange information, ideas, and opinions clearly, effectively, and appropriately both internally and externally.

Adapts communication based on audience and context to ensure clear and appropriate communication.

**5. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving** - Ability to use systematic reasoning process to break down and work through a situation / problem to arrive at an appropriate outcome / solution.

Analyzes complex linkages and makes decisions by interpreting broad guidelines, protocols, policies, and regulations.

**6. Developing Others** - Ability to encourage the learning and development of others, including staff, volunteers and students, with the goal of building and improving skills and abilities, and empowering them to reach higher goals and objectives, and their full potential.

Coaches others and promotes on-going learning and development.

Demonstrate and independently advance level of role knowledge to the full scope of knowledge in new or complex situations.

**8. Teamwork** - Ability to work co-operatively and collaboratively with others.

Fosters and encourages teamwork

**Additional Skills & Competencies Required**:

- A demonstrated background in diversified urban park management which may include; urban forestry, cemeteries, turf maintenance, sport fields, campgrounds, playgrounds, boat launch and harbour maintenance, and urban landscaping and maintenance.
- Demonstrated supervisory experience with excellent leadership, interpersonal and tactful communication skills (verba

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