Policy Development Officer Pf&r - Toronto, Canada - City of Toronto

City of Toronto

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Description

Job ID: 31319

Job Category:
Policy, Planning & Research

Division & Section:
Parks, Forestry & Recreation, PFR Policy & Strategic Planning

Work Location:
Metro Hall, 55 John Street

Job Type & Duration:1 Full-time, Permanent Vacancy & 1 Full-time Temporary, until until May 2024

Salary:
$101, $131,222.00, TM2430, Wage Grade 7

Shift Information:
Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation:
Non-Union

Number of Positions Open: 2

Posting Period: 24-Mar-2023 to 11-Apr-2023

Parks, Forestry and Recreation (PFR) is one of the City of Toronto's largest Divisions.

PFRs mission is to improve the quality of life of Toronto's diverse communities by providing safe, beautiful parks; a healthy, expanding urban forest; and high quality, community focused recreational spaces.

We contribute to the city's social and environmental resilience by ensuring that our parks, playing fields, recreation centres, ice rinks and pools, along with tree-lined streets, trails, forests, meadows, marshes, and ravines, are beautiful, safe and accessible, that they expand and develop to meet the needs of a growing city, and are filled with vibrant, active, and engaged communities.

The Policy and Strategic Planning (PSP) Team is a centre of excellence for strategic policy development and solutions, data analytics, and performance metrics and research.

The Team supports PFR to drive evidenced
- based decision-making, solve complex problems, and advance divisional priorities though strategic solutions and policy options, development of division
- focused evaluating performance and outcomes to drive continuous improvement.

As a successful

Policy Development Officer, reporting to the Manager, Policy Development in the Policy and Strategic Planning Branch of PFR, you can see strategic linkages and opportunities across complex issues and can confidently design and steward policy innovations from concept to implementation to measurement. Your superpowers are facilitation, active listening, conceptual thinking and political acuity.

Major Responsibilities:

Policy Development:
Research, Analysis and Reporting

Develops and delivers systemlevel and evidencedbased policies and strategic plans and projects for PFR Division in alignment corporate and divisional priorities.
Supports the development of transparent performance measures, outcomes, targets and criteria to measure the effectiveness and success of programs and services.
Conducts research and monitors developments in the field and integrates results into the formulation of policy and/or program recommendations to Council, senior management and other levels of government.
Monitors other orders of government and nongovernment organizations, academic and research bodies and local communities to ensure ongoing awareness of existing and evolving issues and concerns related to the needs of Toronto's residents and PFR strategic objectives.
Deals with confidential and sensitive information affecting operations, assets and resources.

Project Management

Provides leadership and support in the development of interbranch policies, strategies and implementation plans, ensuring strategic alignment and integration.
Leads multistakeholder teams, often without direct authority, to successfully complete and deliver complex research, analysis, consultation and policy development products, using effective negotiation, collaboration, coaching and influencing skills.
Responsible for a portfolio of diverse policy files of varying degrees of complexity, delivering high quality results, meeting deadlines and managing competing demands independently and with limited oversight.

Relationship Building and Communication

Stewards, leads or coordinates PFR's role in strategic corporate initiatives. Partners with other divisions to expand opportunities and interdivisional efforts that impact PFR.
Makes presentations to senior leadership, directors and other key decision makers and stakeholders within the Division.
Designs and facilitates meaningful resident and stakeholder engagement processes to ensure that policy positions are rooted in the needs, experience and expertise of those most impacted.
Cultivates strong relationships and represents the division/branch by providing leadership and policy expertise at project, community consultation, and internal and external partnership meetings across the City of Toronto, and with community groups, environmental groups, academia and other stakeholders to support strategic divisional and corporate initiatives.
Maintains effective working relationships with other City staff, elected officials, other orders of government, community groups, service users and other stakeholders regarding the development of new policies and provides expert advice on the interpretation of City policies.
Represents the City, Deputy City Manager, Division at events and committees which have an impac