Do you enjoy working on a team and managing a diverse range of strategic and operational projects? Would you like to have impact as you develop frontline client relationships, maintain and modernize correctional and community safety facilities?
Consider this rewarding opportunity with the Infrastructure Division at the Ministry of the Solicitor General. As a Regional Lead, you will provide project management expertise and overall strategic direction in the design, development and implementation of processes and projects to ensure our existing institutions, facilities and training colleges are safe, functional and responsive to the needs of staff and clients.
In this role, you will:
- Learn about and help maintain and modernize a wide range of correctional and community safety facilities such as correctional institutions, regional offices, officer training facilities, labs and more
- Provide oversight and team leadership to team members and ministry partners
- Work with senior management, project managers, and other team leaders to understand current and future facility and accommodation needs and priorities
- Support development of strategic project plans assessments and reviews for facilities and asset management items
- Oversee research on ministry operations (e.g. correctional institutions) and long-term planning needs
- Create and implement communication strategies for development issues and foster program awareness of current systems to support them
Note: This position requires occasional travel to ministry program facilities in geographic area
You have:
- Ability to develop programs and policies, and understand how government decisions are made
- Understanding of project planning and financial management principles and methodologies
- Ability to learn and apply knowledge of service provider roles and responsibilities (such as Infrastructure Ontario), and service delivery models
- Knowledge or ability to learn and understand key issues facing the ministry and its programs (e.g. correctional institutions, OPP, Chief Coroner/Forensics) to prepare information/decision notes
- Ability to acquire and apply the ministry's programs, structures, and core mandates (Correctional institutions, OPP, Chief Coroner/Forensics, etc) to manage research and project planning and identify the ministry's interests
You can:
- Develop, strengthen and collaborate with stakeholders on high-profile issues and service planning
- Demonstrate negotiation skills and political acuity to negotiate changes and achieve consensus in various forums and support continuous project delivery on time and on target
- Provide advice and interpretation on sensitive and unique issues
- Demonstrate consultation and interpersonal skills to resolve complex issues and work in a team environment
You can:
- Critically analyze and apply benchmarks to project plans to provide recommendations that will proactively resolve risks and barriers
- Be responsive and solve for unique evolving challenges
- Analyze current and emerging issues, trends and directions
- You can develop, prepare and present reports, work plans and processes, as well as TB/MBC submissions to senior management and stakeholders
- You are adept at writing in plain and succinct language to support greater understanding to a variety of audiences
If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!
We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.
Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's
Human Rights Code and the
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.
Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:
- diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- accessibility
- Anti-Racism Policy
