Analyst, Client and Stakeholder Enablement

**CreateTO**, established in January 2018, is a municipal government agency established to manage the City of Toronto’s real estate portfolio. CreateTO works collaboratively with City stakeholders, external partners and community members to create more livable, sustainable, and inclusive communities. The agency enables the City to adopt a strategic city-wide approach towards the delivery of real estate solutions to promote a balance of community and economic benefits.

The Client and Stakeholder Enablement (CSE) team at CreateTO works with individual divisions, agencies, and corporations (DACs) of the City of Toronto to establish and find solutions for their long-term real estate needs. The team aims to support DACs in enhancing their service delivery models and meeting Council directed policy priorities. This team works closely with the Portfolio and Asset Strategy team, the Development team, and the City’s Corporate Real Estate Management group to implement solutions.

**The Opportunity**

Reporting to the **Vice President, Client and Stakeholder Enablement**, the Analyst is a full-time salaried position and will be responsible for providing meaningful real estate development analysis to be used in project identification, development, valuation, disposition of assets, as well as supporting strategic planning for CreateTO and City Building Initiatives.

**Principal Functional Responsibilities**

The responsibilities of the Analyst include:

- Conducting high level development and financial analysis to evaluate various types of real estate development or other opportunities on City-owned lands;
- Assisting the team with the development of business cases for real estate development or other opportunities on City-owned lands.
- Conducting research and preparing presentations and/or written staff reports for senior management and various other stakeholders
- Support the CSE team by organizing and tracking client needs intake, progress and coordination of data and information internally and externally.
- Develop an understanding of the various project files, track milestones and client/ stakeholder engagement.
- Advising and implementing on improvements to current systems, processes, and tools,
- Actively tracking CreateTO Board and City Committee and Council meetings; and,
- Assisting the CSE team with internal and external meetings and requests from DACs, Councillors, non-profits, other levels of government, and the private sector.

**Position Profile And Qualifications**

To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and qualifications:

- Undergraduate degree, with a focus in real estate development, urban planning, business, economics, or equivalent experience;
- Minimum of 2 - 4 years of relevant work experience;
- Strong self-management to demonstrate follow up and follow through for requests made by the team;
- Seek learning opportunities and be open to feedback by demonstrating active listening;
- Excellent relationship building with a strong client focus and a collaborative working style;
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, building consensus, communicating effectively, including active listening and empathy contributing to a team-oriented environment.
- Hands on, acute attention to detail with ability to think strategically, and anticipate needs;
- Ability to work well under pressure with multiple competing deadlines.

CreateTO uses a hybrid workplace model mixing in-office and remote work to offer flexibility and support to employees.