Project Director Internal Corporate Svcs

**Job ID**: 52991

**Job Category**:Project Management

**Division & Section**:Corporate Real Estate Management, FM Project Management Office

**Work Location**:METRO HALL, 55 John St, 2nd Fl, Toronto, ON, M5V 3C6

**Job Type & Duration**:Full-time, Temporary Vacancy (3 years)

**Salary**:$140,350.00-$182,614.00

**Shift Information**:Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

**Affiliation**: Non-Union

**Number of Positions Open**: 1

**Posting Period**: 24-JAN-2025 to 14-FEB-2025

As the Project Director for Internal Corporate Services in the Corporate Real Estate Management Division, reporting to the Director of the Project Management Office, you will lead the strategic delivery of major projects within a portfolio of vertical construction projects valued over $25M. Your role will involve building and nurturing relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring a focus on customer excellence and leadership. Additionally, you will provide strategic direction, leadership, and oversight to ensure the successful planning and execution of all project delivery phases. This is a three year contract with the possibility of moving into a permanent status.

**Major Responsibilities**:

- Develops, designs, and implements functional policies and programs that impact overall business performance based on long-term needs. Contributes to the continuous improvement of divisional performance through the analysis and development and implementation of sound management practices and procedures, provides program management staff with direction and guidance, processes, and tools to increase efficiencies and improve effectiveness of the services provided by this section.
- Directs, through subordinate management staff, all activities of the section, delegating management responsibility.
- Leads and motivates a diverse workforce, ensures effective teamwork, provides resolution to controversial labour relations issues, ensures high standards of work quality and organizational performance, continuous learning and encourages innovation in others.
- Leads and supports the PMO Director and CREM Executive Director on key strategic and/or corporate initiatives, including assessments, planning, implementing, and evaluating strategic and operational plans.
- Develops, recommends, and administers the annual budget for the section, and ensures expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
- Provides updates and reports on project status, issues, and key deliverables.
- Responsible for implementing key Cluster or corporate-wide initiatives and driving alignment for these initiatives amongst senior leaders.
- Negotiates and builds relationships, working in close collaboration with executives, senior management, clients, and various stakeholders across the organization, often with competing and conflicting goals, objectives, and priorities to resolve critical strategic and operational issues and deliver on major project objectives while ensuring that both City and business priorities are met.
- Synthesizes complex strategic problems into clear action plans and ensures execution for success.
- Directs and ensures successful project planning, design, development and implementation of large-scale multi-division, multi-year transformational projects according to the City's governance process, City policies, and project management practice.
- Leads high-level strategic projects, cross-functional, or multi-divisional teams in driving strategic efforts for the development and implementation of strategies and for assembling and managing tools and resources necessary to support the transformation.
- Drives results, defines outcomes, and ensures that the strategy is executed successfully to change business outcomes.
- Conducts research and analysis (e.g., financial, strategic, operational, organizational) and interviews with internal and external sources.
- Utilizes advanced project management skills to provide executive management with the necessary information for selecting, prioritizing, and redirecting appropriate projects given organizational goals, estimated resource requirements, determining resource availability.
- Drives corporate strategy development and works with senior leaders, executive sponsors, Steering.
- Committees and all stakeholders to help uncover and address strategic business opportunities and reach project goals.
- Prepares reports to City Executives and Committees of Council, ensuring a high-quality product.
- Prepares and provides updates and reports on initiatives including project status, issues, deliverables and milestones to the DCM and Steering Committees.
- Anticipates, identifies, and manages emerging issues and challenges. Evaluates potential technologies, tools and implementation strategies that are flexible and responsive to evolving and changing needs that will benefit the organization. Implements solutions and monitors/evaluates results.
- Oversees, or manages direct