Strategic Planning Analyst Ii

5 months ago


Edmonton, Canada City of Edmonton Full time

**Strategic Planning Analyst II**

**Job Number***:
**47405**

Reporting to the Department Manager of Service Experience and Improvement, the Strategic Planning Analyst II will assist the Manager to anticipate and plan for the future of the City of Edmonton for the City Operations Department, supporting the Deputy City Manager’s initiatives while balancing the needs of stakeholders and the public with the realities of our fiscal situation and timelines.

This position is a leader of people and programs, and will use skills in verbal and visual communication, collaboration, and negotiation to engage various stakeholders to develop consensus and support around the corporate framework and its implementation.

With a focus on the City of Edmonton’s Cultural Commitments to be Safe, Helpful, Accountable, Integrated, and Excellent, you will:

- Provide input into the development of corporate methodologies, templates, and tools for continuous improvement, projects, and initiatives
- Partner in the development of department/branch initiatives and ensure alignment to the City’s Strategic Planning Framework
- Lead and facilitate the process for the department and branches to use for continuous improvement, aligning the corporate, department, and branch objectives into actionable plans
- Monitor and prepare regular reporting for a variety of functions, including progress towards identified goals and outcomes, and supporting the Branch Action Plan and the Department Business Plan; facilitate the provision of information and data, determining the best method of reporting to meet the needs of decision-makers
- Develop, implement, and measure project performance management framework(s) for long-term evaluation and improvement
- Work with the stakeholders to ensure performance measures are meaningful
- Regularly monitor, analyze and evaluate performance measures to identify trends and issues, identify areas for improvement, and make recommendations for corrective action to improve service delivery
- Collaborate and assist in the proper identification, assessment, prioritization, and mitigation of risks
- Identify key risk indicators to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of risk monitoring, risk controls, and risk mitigation
- Implement processes and tools to support improvement initiatives in the departments, such as live performance tool, defect identification and evaluation tools, integrated reporting, and progress monitoring and measures
- Proactively monitor best practices in other jurisdictions and industry, as well as academia, to identify improvements applicable to City Operations
- Partner with corporate, department, and section stakeholders to ensure coordination and integration of activities
- Approach all functional work with a continuous improvement mindset, making recommendations and implementing as needed
- Act as a Branch and Department champion, while participating on committees, teams and working groups
- Perform other related duties as required

**Qualifications**:

- Completion of a University degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Finance, Public Administration, Planning or a related discipline. A graduate degree in these areas is preferable
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in a combination of: strategic and operational business planning, working with corporate performance measures and budgets; business case development
- Leadership and project management experience within a public sector environment would be considered an asset
- Considerable knowledge and experience in project management, continuous improvement methodologies (i.e. Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Prosci Change Management, the project cycle, and processes)
- Considerable knowledge and experience developing, managing and/or working with performance measures, linkages to operational, strategic and business plans
- Considerable knowledge of continuous improvement principles, program development, benchmarking and procedures for alignment of project objectives with the department’s business plan goals
- Significant knowledge of corporate priorities, strategies and initiatives, and associated timelines associated with the corporate reporting processes/protocols
- Advanced level knowledge of primary and secondary research methodology, including design and implementation, data collection, and trend and results analysis and presentation
- Significant skill and ability in project and process management including the ability to effectively gather, synthesize, and analyze data
- Experience and skill in the use of qualitative and quantitative analytics, and data intelligence to support decision making processes
- Ability to understand and execute oral and written instructions of an advanced nature and ability to express complex ideas and concepts effectively and persuasively, verbally and in written format
- Ability to improvement outcomes into operational practice
- Skills and expertise leading integrated inter



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