SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

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• Division & Section: Economic Development & Culture, EDC Arts & Culture Services
• Work Location: City Hall, 100 Queen St. West
• Job Type & Duration: Full-Time,Permanent Vacancy
• Shift Information: Moday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: Non-Union
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period:04-Dec-2024 to 18-Dec-2024

About the position:

Are you a self-motivated, imaginative leader with a keen interest and skill in working collaboratively to realize the vision of Toronto’s new 10-year Action Plan for Culture? Are you a skilled project manager with experience in the cultural realm, who can capably adapt to competing and shifting demands and priorities, while successfully leading and delivering projects and programs on time, budget and scope?

The Senior Project Manager position may be one for you. Reporting to the Director, Arts and Culture Services in the City’s Economic Development and Culture Division, the Senior Project Manager will lead the implementation of “Culture Connects: An Action Plan for Culture in Toronto (2025-2035)”, and support the Director in delivering on other priority projects related to arts and culture. “Culture Connects” includes 28 actions grouped into four priority areas, with a vision of building a city where everyone, everywhere, can discover, experience and create culture. The Senior Project Manager will collaborate with City staff, partners in the cultural sector and communities across the city to develop and implement programs and initiatives that support the objectives of “Culture Connects.”

You will lead complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives and actions, utilizing advanced project and stakeholder management skills, technical expertise and consultation strategies. This role will include developing and managing budgets, budget processes and cost controls, and identifying and pursuing revenue generation opportunities. You'll demonstrate your ability to function successfully in a complex, multi-stakeholder municipal environment like ours, as you ensure effective teamwork and communication and lead high quality work and excellent performance. The ideal candidate will be a strong communicator with outstanding relationship management, partnership-building and issues management skills.

This is a highly collaborative mandate that will see you creating and managing interdivisional and interdisciplinary teams to plan and advance major projects including direct supervision of staff while addressing political, community, business and other stakeholder interests. You'll negotiate and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, and provide strategic advice for projects, activities, and assignments, from program development and resource allocation, and lead monitoring and evaluation of results and impacts.

Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and best practices, you'll ensure that programs and processes consider developments within the cultural sector, corporate policies and practices, legislation and initiatives by other levels of government. You will also manage public engagement, write and prepare reports to City Council and Standing Committees, and deliver presentations to Committees of Council and/or senior management, and at community consultations and events, as required.

Key Qualifications:
Among the strengths you bring to the role of Senior Project Manager will be the following key qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in a discipline pertinent to the job function, i.e., planning, public policy, arts administration, or an equivalent combination of education, Project Management training (e.g., PMP or PMI)and/or experience.
• Considerable experience managing large-scale arts and culture projects and programs of significant complexity from inception through implementation to completion, while balancing the interests of multiple stakeholders.
• Considerable experience in delivering services and programs across various fields, including planning, public policy, and arts and culture. Experience in the cultural sector, particularly in cultural planning and policy development, is considered an asset.
• Considerable experience in facilitating community and other stakeholder meetings on contentious issues.
• Extensive experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, including planning, estimating, scheduling, and managing scope, resources, risks, and issues.
• Considerable experience preparing written reports such as policy documents, technical documents, research reports or reports to Council or other governing bodies, budget proposals and correspondence.
• Ability to define and meet project purpose and objectives, undertake all project activities, and define and achieve milestones and deliverables as well as monitor and track progress.
• Ability to work on complex assignments demanding critical judgement, analytical thinking, and balancing of stakeholder interests.
• Ability to deal effectively with the public, media, political representatives, diverse community stakeholders and staff at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work flexible hours, which may include evening and weekend community meetings at various locations.

While already technically competent with various software programs, including MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), and MS Projects, you're prepared to learn, understand, and apply new technologies. Familiarity with government legislation in occupational health and safety is essential in this role, as is the ability to support the Toronto Public Service values to ensure a culture that champions equity, diversity, and respectful workplaces.

Lived experience as a member of an Indigenous, Black and/or equity-deserving group, with a strong understanding of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion obtained through lived experience and demonstrated through daily interactions, is an asset.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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