SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER INFRA COORD

at  City of Toronto

Job ID: 51969
Job Category: Project Management
Division & Section: IDS Transit Expansion, Transit Program Management and Planning
Work Location: 100 Queen Street West
Job Type & Duration: 1 Full-Time Permanent Vacancy
Salary: $112,280.00 - $149,247.00
Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours a week
Affiliation: Non-Union
Number of Positions Open: 1
Posting Period: 29-JAN-2025 to 12-FEB-2025

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• Post-secondary education in a professional discipline pertinent to municipal infrastructure planning and delivery (e.g., Urban Planning, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Project Management) combined with project management experience or an equivalent of education and experience.
• Extensive experience managing multiple complex, large scale projects from inception to completion with the ability to work with multiple-stakeholders to achieve a desired outcome.
• Extensive experience in stakeholder management with the ability to influence and negotiate outcomes effectively, manage and resolve conflict amongst stakeholders while balancing political, community and public interests.
• Considerable experience in leading the development of business cases, statutory compliant environmental assessment processes, constructability assessments, or other studies at pre-construction stage to inform decisions to advance projects. Transit projects would be considered an asset.
• Considerable experience in a municipal environment or intergovernmental agencies would be considered an asset.
• Ability to strategically plan, including development, implementation, and program/project management.
• Excellent conceptual ability and capacity to develop creative solutions to complex technical, business process, policy, and stakeholder management issues.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills at a senior management level enabling ability to author concise reports and executive summaries, and to interact with diverse interest groups.
• Political acumen, critical judgement and insight, as well as advanced skills and judgement in public relations and negotiation, including the ability to achieve consensus among parties having different objectives in a complex and sensitive political environment.
• Ability to lead change, to be flexible, responsive, critical and able to demonstrate new ways to think, act and plan.
• Ability to develop and administer budgets to ensure unit fiscal accountability and effective use of resources.
• Ability to foster an organizational culture that emphasizes innovation, continuous learning, collaboration, transparency, accountability and trust while promoting a strong code of ethics and integrity to support public service excellence.
• Ability to support the Toronto Public Service values to ensure a culture that champions equity, diversity, and respectful workplaces. Knowledge and understanding of relevant policies and government legislation including Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), Occupational Health and Safety Act, Ontario Human Rights Code and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
• Lived experience as a member of an Indigenous, Black and/or equity-deserving group is an asset; with a strong understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion obtained through lived experience and demonstrated through daily interactions.

Reporting to the Program Director of the Transit Expansion (TE} Division for Stations and Strategic Initiatives, the Senior Project Manager will lead, manage, and coordinate City activities related to transit expansion. In this role, staff will liaise and facilitate effective communication and coordination between City of Toronto divisions, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), Metrolinx, and other stakeholders for the development and implementation of the transit expansion projects and programs. This includes working with a multi-disciplinary team of internal and external stakeholders to guide planning, design, and construction.

• Manages assigned projects ensuring effective teamwork, communication, high standards of work quality, organizational performance and continuous learning.
• Coordinates and manages divisional input and the delivery of identified cross-divisional projects.
• Works with divisions to define the scope of projects and develops project work plans and schedules.
• Facilitates and leads interdisciplinary, interdivisional, and interagency working groups, partnerships, and consultation processes - setting agendas, documenting actions, findings, and conclusions.
• Building consensus while addressing technical, political, community, business, and other stakeholder requirements to advance transit priorities.
• Oversees the preparation and coordinated review of specifications and contracts to carry out transit expansion projects.
• Fosters and maintains cooperative working relationships within and external to the division.
• Responsible for supervision of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality project management service to client groups.
• Maintains continuous professional development and an active awareness of industry advancements in planning, coordination and monitoring, and other appropriate fields to retain technical competency, and provide sound and strategic advice to the Program Director.
• Manages information and action requests from members of Council including preparing Council reports and briefing materials as required.
• Represents the division and Program Director and attends various meetings including interagency, intergovernmental, senior staff, steering committee and working group meetings as necessary including making presentations to Councillors and other government agencies.
• Develops and implements project controls and reporting, such as monitoring expenses of assigned projects against approved budgets and tracking and mitigating risks and issues.
• Develops strategies/policies/programs/action plans, to achieve approved time frames and technical requirements.
• Leads the preparation of competitive documents (RFQs, RFPs), selection processes, and retains and manages external consultants on internal and interagency capital works process improvement projects and studies.
• Leads the preparation of statutory compliant environmental assessments, from pre-planning to achieving ministerial notice to proceed.
• Leads the preparation of business cases assessing the benefits, cost, and impacts informing decisions to advance transit project development.
• Leads the preparation of constructability assessments at pre-construction stage to confirm buildability, project sequencing, risks, cost estimates, and procurement options.