Major Projects, Program Director - Water

• Program Leadership: Provide program management leadership across major water programs in Ontario, and potentially across the Americas
• Develop Key Relationships: Develop client relationships, including ensuring proactive positioning for upcoming opportunities. Establish and maintain trusted relationships across key clients and industry sectors.
• Business Development: Focused business development to support the success and development of the business
• Culture of Innovation: Define the execution plan to disseminate innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across the program to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice at both project and program levels. Work with Water Market Leaders to identify business opportunities within the water sector.
• Transformational Change Management: Lead the detailed design of projects within a transformational change program and manage their delivery, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to drive acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
• Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Project Team Management: Lead large project and program teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project/program vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; manage resources across projects/programs; negotiate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Project Assurance: Lead the design and delivery of project assurance reviews, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Project Scope Definition: Lead the planning and delivery of complex, wide-ranging information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on program and project deliverables, ensuring integration across the program and with the wider portfolio, where present.
• Project Governance: Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within the project-delivery and project-management office teams, and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
• Portfolio Management: Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of programs within a significant area of responsibility, using an appropriate program and project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.
• Enterprise Business Analysis: Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level. Lead the improvement efforts that are within span of control at this level.
• Project Benefit Realization: Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized across a program.
• Project Resource Management: Lead the negotiation and deployment of annual and longer-term program and project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Project Risk and Issue Management: Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree on recovery plans.

• Master's Degree an asset but not required

• General Experience: Experience level enables job holder to provide leadership to others regarding work related systems, processes and challenges (More than 15 years)
• Managerial Experience: Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (13 months to 3 years)
• Understanding of, and commitment to Project Management best practices and minimum standards
• Demonstrated ability to plan and manage successful program and project delivery
• Ability to work within complex environments, responding positively to evolving constraints
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to develop relevant Project Controls systems
• Experience across a number of Project Controls tools and systems
• Leadership and people development focus
• Focus on personal safety and safe working practices
• Flexibility to travel
• Availability to work flexible hours, based on project requirements and deadlines.

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