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IT Strategic Planner

1 month ago

Halifax, Canada Emera Inc. Full time

**Job Title** IT Strategic Planner
**Company, Department**: Nova Scotia Power, IT
**Location**: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hybrid
**Type of Employment**: Regular, Full Time

**Closing Date**: April 18, 2023
**Reference Number**: 11176

At Nova Scotia Power, we’re committed to providing safe, reliable electricity so that our customers and communities can thrive. We work across the province, from Yarmouth to Wreck Cove, to prevent power outages and to strengthen our electrical system—for today, and for the future.

As a subsidiary of Emera Inc, we provide 95% of the generation, transmission, and distribution of electrical power to approximately 540,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Our company is focused on new technologies to enhance customer service and reliability, reduce emissions, and add renewable energy.

We are proud to live and work in Nova Scotia. It’s why we work to understand how we can give back meaningfully, support local organizations, and work collaboratively to enhance the communities we call home.

We believe that every unique perspective should be valued and that everyone should have a sense of safety and belonging—at work, and in our communities. Leveraging the thoughts of a diverse workforce helps us to be innovative and provide the best service to our customers.

We are currently looking for **IT Strategic Planner within our IT Team in a Permanent Position.** Reporting to the IT Portfolio Manager, you will take on the role of primary project researcher and preparer of the preliminary planning work to evaluate technology options available for the business sponsor.

**As an IT Strategic Planner: -**

You will be seen as a bridge between the Business and IT, this position interacts with all the related key stakeholders in various portfolios to identify project options and carry out the opportunity assessment related to these options. In many cases this will involve identifying and/or validating associated costs, benefits, risks, constraints, and dependencies associated with options for a proposed project. This work ultimately results in a business case along with the associated scorings and rankings and a recommendation to proceed. This work involves the creation and development of specific deliverables/artifacts so that the business sponsors can evaluate options and agree on recommendations to proceed. The IT Planner also provides guidance and oversight for opportunity assessments performed by other external or internal parties.

**The IT Planner would have the overall responsibility to**:

- Create a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and business requirements, and potential solutions for a business sponsor.
- Identify and prioritize high level technical and functional requirements.
- Identify potential roles required in subsequent project delivery stages for planning purposes.
- Use knowledge of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies to recommend the preferred project delivery approach.
- Provide stewardship of the opportunity assessment and Business Value Case, supporting the business / customer through its creation.
- Provide guidance and oversight of opportunity assessment requirements and best practices when the opportunity assessment is performed by other parties.

You will be responsible for personal safety and that of co-workers by observing and ensuring compliance with all Occupational Health and Safety Rules and Regulations. You will be accountable for environmental performance as it relates to the environmental management system processes and initiatives.

**Skills, Capabilities and Experience**:

- Ability to do detailed business and requirement analysis to analyze options.
- 5 to 10 years of progressive responsibility within information systems or information management/analysis environment
- Analytical thinking and problem solving
- Oral and written communication skills
- Facilitation and Presentation skills
- Being detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy
- Interpersonal and consultative skills
- Relationship building and nurturing skills.
- Financial acumen
- Architectural knowledge (the ability to work with Enterprise Architects, speak the language and explore options and technology synergies)
- Organizational skills (Managing several complex assessments simultaneously)
- Knowledge of business structure
- Requirements gathering - articulating, validating, and documenting.

**We offer remote work opportunities, to be discussed with your leader, however you are required to live in or be willing to relocate Nova Scotia for this role.**

**Why join our team?**
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid work model with flexible remote workdays.
- **Health & Wellbeing**: A comprehensive benefits plan, access to a free on-site fitness center, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
- **Grow Your Career**:Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a f

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