About Toronto Community Housing Corporation
Toronto Community Housing Corporation (“TCHC”) is the largest social housing provider in Canada and the second largest in North America. We are wholly owned by the City of Toronto and operate in a non-profit manner. TCHC provides homes to over 41,000 low and moderate-income households in 88 of Toronto's neighbourhoods, with 93,000 tenants from many different backgrounds with a diversity in age, education, language, mental and physical ability, religion, ethnicity and race. We are an essential part of the City of Toronto's fabric and social system.
Our over 2,000 employees work to achieve our vision of quality homes in vibrant communities where people are proud to live and work.
Vacancy Type: Full-time Permanent
Salary/Hourly Range: $123,900 - $136,290
Work Details (Days/Hours): Monday – Friday 36.25 hours per week
Hybrid Eligible Yes
Affiliation: Non-Union: Management
Division and Department ITS – Information and Technology Services
Location: 729 Petrolia Road, Toronto
Number of Vacancies: 1
Existing/New Job: New
Grade: 08
Vacancy Status Existing
Candidate List or Eligibility List: Candidate List
What we offer
In addition to a competitive salary and a rewarding career where you can truly make a difference, we offer a comprehensive package that meets the various needs of our diverse employees, including:
- Ability to participate in inclusive employee-led networks to educate, inspire, amplify voices, build relationships and provide development opportunities;
- Minimum four (4) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service;
- Four (4) paid personal days;
- Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, includes 100-per-cent employer matching;
- Health and dental benefits, including a health spending account available upon your start date;
- Employee and family assistance program;
- Maternity and parental leave top up (93% of base salary);
- Training and development programs including tuition reimbursement of $1500 per calendar year.
- Fitness membership discount;
This job offers the opportunity to work from home as part of a hybrid work arrangement. This arrangement will allow you to work some days at a TCHC work location and the rest of the time from home. The amount of time required to work at a TCHC work location is flexible, while considering operational and service delivery requirements.
Make a difference
The IT Portfolio Manager, Information Security, is responsible for leading the planning, coordination, governance support, and delivery of strategic technology and business initiatives across TCHC.
The incumbent leads and coordinates a portfolio of assigned initiatives spanning portfolio delivery, operational enablement, stakeholder coordination, process improvement, vendor engagement, reporting, and the implementation of enterprise capabilities, standards, and workplans.
The role provides integrated portfolio leadership across business and technical stakeholders, ensuring assigned initiatives are prioritized, governed, tracked, and delivered in alignment with TCHC's enterprise objectives, approved plans, organizational priorities, and reporting requirements.
This role is critical to translating strategic priorities into structured delivery plans, strengthening portfolio governance and reporting, and enabling collaboration across ITS, business divisions, external partners, and vendors. The Portfolio Manager works closely with leadership to provide visibility into portfolio health, risks, dependencies, financial performance, and executive reporting needs.
What you’ll do
Portfolio Governance and Delivery:
- Develop and maintain integrated Portfolio plans, governance structures, roadmaps, milestones, reporting cycles, and delivery plans for assigned initiatives.
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives by managing scope, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items through structured governance and escalation processes.
- Ensure portfolio artifacts are current, complete, and aligned with TCHC policies, enterprise standards, and approved delivery methodologies.
- Lead steering meetings, working groups, and executive updates by preparing concise decision materials, status summaries, and escalation items.
- Maintain complete documentation for assigned initiatives in approved enterprise repositories and portfolio tracking tools.
Metrics, Reporting, and Portfolio Operations:
- Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards, metrics, scorecards, and reporting packages for leadership, governance forums, business stakeholders, and project sponsors.
- Establish consistent methods for tracking milestones, commitments, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and portfolio performance indicators.
- Partners with technical teams, business owners, and service owners to collect data, validate status, and convert operational information into clear executive-level insights.
- Support the administration and optimization of tools used for portfolio tracking, evidence management, reporting, workflow coordination, and documentation.
- Generate standard and ad hoc reports to support strategic planning, operational reviews, audits, and executive decision-making.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communications:
- Build effective working relationships with ITS leaders, business owners, service owners, enabling functions, procurement, finance, external partners, and other stakeholders involved in assigned initiatives.
- Prepare executive briefings, committee materials, communication updates, and stakeholder materials that clearly communicate progress, risks, decisions, dependencies, and required actions.
- Coordinate or support communications, training, adoption, and change management activities in partnership with business units and enabling functions.
- Facilitate workshops, planning sessions, lessons learned reviews, working groups, and stakeholder meetings related to initiative delivery, change adoption, and continuous improvement
Standards, Process, and Continuous Improvement:
- Contribute to the development, review, and maintenance of portfolio standards, templates, procedures, delivery practices, and governance processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve the maturity, efficiency, and consistency of portfolio delivery through better processes, templates, workflows, tools, and reporting approaches.
- Promote adoption of consistent governance, documentation, tracking, and delivery practices across assigned initiatives.
- Support reviews, assessments, and leadership oversight by organizing documentation, tracking action plans, and strengthening information management discipline across the portfolio.
Financial, Vendor, and Investment Management:
- Lead financial management for assigned portfolios and initiatives, including stewardship of capital and operating funding, development of in-year and multi-year financial plans, ongoing reforecasting, variance analysis, and complete, accurate, and timely financial reporting in accordance with TCHC financial policies and controls.
- Coordinate with Finance, Procurement, Legal, and ITS leadership to develop business cases, maintain budget assumptions, adjust funding plans as priorities evolve, and ensure portfolio investments, contracts, statements of work, and renewals remain aligned to approved plans and organizational objectives.
- Monitor third-party deliverables, milestone payments, commitments, and spend against plan; validate financial information for accuracy and completeness; and support monthly, quarterly, in-year, and multi-year reporting, forecasting, and budget review activities.
- Identify and escalate financial, contractual, or delivery risks affecting approved priorities and support mitigation planning.
- Initiative Leadership (as assigned)
- Lead or coordinate assigned enterprise initiatives, improvement portfolios, operational workstreams, implementation projects, readiness activities, reporting enhancements, or change adoption efforts.
- Coordinate work across internal technical teams, business units, external consultants, and security vendors to ensure timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables are managed effectively.
- Ensure assigned initiatives maintain accurate schedule, risk, issue, action, decision, dependency, and financial records to support leadership oversight and transparent reporting.
- Support organizational change, communications, training, and adoption activities associated with new processes, tools, capabilities, and portfolio requirements.
- Liaise with external partners and vendors to manage deliverables, commitments, escalations, and integration requirements within assigned portfolio scope.
What you’ll need
- University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Public Administration, Project Management, or related discipline. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- PMP is required.
- Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, audit, compliance, or IT portfolio/project management, with at least 3 years leading cross-functional security or risk-related initiatives.
- Experience coordinating security assessments, audit remediation, policy and standards work, risk registers, control improvement plans, or security-related transformation initiatives.
- Strong experience in executive reporting, stakeholder management, issue escalation, and governance facilitation across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with information security frameworks and practices such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, CIS Controls, privacy requirements, vulnerability management, identity and access management, security operations, or incident response coordination.
- PfMP, PgMP, COBIT, NIST are preferred
What’s next
Once you apply, we’ll review your resume and contact you if we believe your skills and experience will make you successful in the role. If you are selected to move forward, the process will include one or more interviews and/or assessments and reference checks.
INDS
Thank you for your interest in Toronto Community Housing
We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If you possess similar experience that is close to what we’ve included in the job postings below, we encourage you to consider applying. We strongly believe that diverse experience, transferable skills, and passion are key!
Once you have submitted your application successfully, you will receive a confirmation email. We encourage you to check out our careers page often, as new opportunities become available on a regular basis.
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the cultural mosaic of our great city and the communities we serve. We recognize the value that comes from different viewpoints, unique experiences and diverse perspectives of our employees, who bring fresh, new ideas to our business. Diversity plays a key role in our ability to deliver on our mission to provide clean, safe, well-maintained, affordable homes for tenants.
TCHC is committed to diversity and inclusion within its community and encourages applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized persons/persons of colour, persons with disabilities, women, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, and others who can help us provide vibrant communities and make our city a great place to live. In an effort to ensure access to information for people with disabilities, we have noticed that some screen readers do not function properly with our job portal. If you are a person with a disability and are experiencing issues with our job portal and would like access to our job postings in an alternative format, please email your request to our People and Culture Division at
[email protected].
Accessibility for applicants
Toronto Community Housing is committed to equity in employment. Our goal is a diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free workplace that reflects the communities we serve.
We will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities at all stages of the hiring process in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, and Toronto Community Housing’s Accessibility Policy.
If you are a person with a disability and need the job posting in an alternative format or any other accessible accommodations during the hiring process, please email your request to our People & Culture department at
[email protected] or call our accessible accommodations line at (416) 981 - 4119. Please refer to the job requisition number when you contact us.
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