Advisor, Transportation Management Strategies

**Job Description**:
**Advisor, Transportation Management Strategies**

**Public Works - Transportation**

**Contract Full-Time; 13 Months**

**Salary Range: $100,172 - $125,213 per annum**

**Work Mode**:Hybrid

**Location**:10 Peel Centre Drive, Brampton, ON

**Hours of Work**:35 hours per week

**Who we are**:
Our Transportation Department is dedicated to ensuring the safety and efficiency of transportation systems for Peel’s urban and rural communities. Our mandate involves planning, developing, and maintaining infrastructure. This includes implementing traffic management strategies, maintaining roadways, and optimizing public transit routes to enhance accessibility and minimize congestion. Additionally, our department focuses on promoting sustainable transportation options to reduce environmental impact and improve quality of life for residents. Through collaboration with various stakeholders and community engagement initiatives, we work towards creating a comprehensive transportation network that meets the diverse needs of Peel Region's population.

**Position overview**:
Reporting to the Director, the Advisor is responsible for leading the work of the divisional leadership team to achieve operational business excellence through the provision of expertise, project management and decision making relating to strategies that address reputational risk and organizational effectiveness for the division.

As a member of the divisional management team, this role focuses on fostering stakeholder relationships as well as developing and monitoring partnerships with corporate teams and external business partners.

Using a combination of technical expertise and evidenced-based decision making, the incumbent will be responsible for developing strategic programs, processes, and practices for integration into the division’s mandated functions that will allow the division to further manage risks and increase operational efficiency. In addition, the Advisor is responsible for creating a culture of efficiency and collaboration across the division which may include optimizations of process and/or organizational structure and the development of standards of service excellence for the division.

The Advisor will work independently alongside divisional leaders to proactively develop and execute divisional strategic directions, related to but not limited to the following areas: workforce planning including succession planning, workload and resource optimizations, divisional education, learning and professional development, emergency management, business and operational continuity, change management, continuous improvement initiatives and special projects.

**What you will do in this role**:

- Consult with and advise assigned divisional leadership team on strategic solutions that proactively manage reputational risk and opportunities to enhance organizational effectiveness.
- Lead regularly occurring team meetings for the divisional strategic initiatives, directing staff in completing deliverables in support of tactical plans as required. Reinforce and ensure communication of updates on the progress of the Divisions’ strategic initiatives.
- Provide strategic advice, make recommendations, and implement decisions in areas such as organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and business process management that significantly evolve the direction of management processes, systems and culture.
- Ensure all phases of implementation of strategic initiatives are coordinated and performed within standards, timeframes and budget requirements using proven project management methodologies. Lead change and reinforce change management strategy plans to drive integration and adoption of transformation initiatives within the division.
- Ensure that the launch of strategic projects include internal and external stakeholder consultation, are properly resourced and meet time and budget parameters. This may require integration, cross-departmental collaboration and may involve participation on internal and external committees. May also involve procurement of and collaboration with a consultant.
- Analyze and report on the effectiveness of existing programs, as requested, especially in creating a culture of integration, efficiency and client satisfaction across the division. This may involve defining improved standards of service excellence for internal clients and divisional/departmental stakeholders.
- Manage relationships with management and various external stakeholders to develop and maintain collaborative relationships, manage expectations as well as anticipate client needs prior to their requests resulting in a proactive service delivery plan to meet current and future program requirements, goals and objectives.
- Build awareness, understanding and support among the divisions for Culture and Inclusion principles and client satisfaction objectives and standardize division service culture approach and modes of service delivery.
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