Advisor, Strategy

**Job Description**:
**Advisor, Strategy & Corporate Performance**

**Office of the CAO- Strategy & Transformation**

**Status**:Regular Full Time

**Salary Range**:$110,870-$138,589 per annum plus comprehensive benefits

**Work mode**:Hybrid* _see below for more details about this work mode._

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

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

**Who we are**: As part of the Office of the CAO, our division plays a key role in advancing strategic, organizational, and community priorities. We lead key initiatives related to Peel’s Strategic Plan, Corporate Performance, Project Management, and Continuous Improvement.

We have a great opportunity to join our Corporate Strategy Office as an Advisor of Strategy and Corporate Performance. In this role, you will provide direction and advice to senior management regarding the development and implementation of the Strategic Plan, Council Priorities, Program Service Plans, Business Plans and other corporate and/or program strategies. You will be responsible for ensuring Council, community, and stakeholder engagement is the key element of such plans.

You will develop and lead strategic planning to ensure that measures associated with the strategic plan, program/ service plans and service inventory are coordinated and reported to inform ELT, Regional Council, and the Community. More specifically, responsible for implementation of the Integrated Planning Framework with emphasis on corporate planning and performance management, Term of Council priorities, Organizational priorities, and Community for Life reporting.

Lastly, you will develop standards and supports to advance strategy development across the organization while working closely with departmental leads. This involves persuading stakeholders to meet scheduled milestones in a corporate change initiative related to integrated planning, while managing their expectations. It includes coordinating projects, researching and analyzing program matters to provide recommendations, organizing public meetings for community input, gathering and interpreting complex information for strategic planning, making presentations to various groups, writing reports and correspondence, and providing information to citizens about strategy development and its community impact.

**What the role requires**:

- A Master's or Honours degree in, Public Administration, Finance, Business Administration, Strategic Planning, or related field
- Expert knowledge and further specialization in the strategic planning field is required
- Expert knowledge and understanding of provincial, GTA, regional and municipal issues
- Combination of education and experience may be considered

**Skills/Abilities**:

- Demonstrated knowledge of strategic and business planning, its various components and corporate performance management and reporting
- Strong knowledge of planning for sustainability and its economic, environmental, social, and cultural considerations
- Proven ability to influence and inform decision making at the executive level on complex corporate change initiatives
- Advanced Project Management Skills
- Superior Report Writing Skills (to prepare reports for Regional Council or similar bodies)
- Advanced ability to develop and deliver presentations to Council, senior staff, area municipal council / staff, external stakeholders etc.
- Strong facilitation skills
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias
- Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision benefit plan including psychological health (effective start date)
- Automatic enrolment into OMERS pension plan
- Accrue Vacation on a monthly basis up to 3 weeks per annum
- 3 Paid personal days and floating holidays
- Flexible hours supporting your wellness and wellbeing
- Annual performance review and merit increases based on performance
- Supportive leadership and a culture of respect and inclusion
- Access to tuition reimbursement and learning and development resources

In this role you will have the ability to work remotely and attend on-site when required based on operational requirements at the 10 Peel Centre Drive, Brampton_ _worksite. The frequency of on-site activities may vary on a weekly basis and based on operational requirements. Your remote work location must be located within the province of Ontario.

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The Region of Peel offers job based flexible hours of work that allows employees to manage personal and professional responsibilities while at the same time ensures business operational needs and customer service expectations are achieved._**

**Interview**: Our recruitment process will be completed with video conference technology.

About Us:
Peel Region consists of the cities of Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon. Peel Region delivers essential services to more than 1.5 million residents and approximately 175,000 businesses.

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