Oph - Public Health, Business Consultant - Ottawa, Canada - City of Ottawa

City of Ottawa

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Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Requisition ID: 12446

Department:
Ottawa Public Health

Service:
Ottawa Public Health Dept.

Branch:
Medical Officer of Health Business and Development Support Services
Employment Type: 1 Full-time Temporary - Up to 1 year
Work Hours: 35.00 hours per week

Affiliation:

CIPP

Salary Information:
$79, $97,111.56 annually (2022 rates of pay)

Location: 100 Constellation, Nepean

City:
Ottawa, ON

Job Category:
Ottawa Public Health

Application Close: 24/05/2024

JOB SUMMARY:

MOH Business and Development Support Services manages and integrates the delivery of corporate services functions (HR, Legal, Finance, Student placement, volunteer program, internal communication and Privacy) to OPH, leads the establishment and implementation of financial and business practices and decision making tools for departmental priorities and programs, conducts business planning for the department, identifies and resolves high priority issues, designs and oversees complex department-wide projects, and provides strategic advice to the Board of Health, Medical Officer of Health and leadership team on a wide variety of departmental priorities, issues management techniques, and governance recommendations.

You are responsible for supporting Ottawa Public Health's business and financial planning activities of the branch/department, in developing operating budget, improve the effectiveness of business operations, liaising with Shared Services partners (FSU) to ensure the timely exchange of information, receiving and inputting data to the appropriate information management system and providing related reports.

You undertake and manage initiatives to supporting the Departmental and Individual Program Spending Plans, address/resolve emerging issues or manages changes.

You also support senior staff in the management of issues affecting the branch/department.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Completion of 4 year university degree with major focus in the discipline applicable to the work location of the position, such as Economics, Business Administration, Commerce, Health/Social Sciences, Arts or related field.

Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience working in a large multi-site public organization, working in research, analysis/auditing/reporting, performance measurement, operational/strategic and business planning, business process design, change management or statistical modeling/analysis.

The incumbent should possess directly related experience in public policy development, organizational change and development, human resources and project management.

KNOWLEDGE:

Possess general knowledge of the Corporation, departmental business requirements, policies and organizational structure, and legislative environment
Possess knowledge and understanding of business processes and business systems
Strategic planning processes
Performance measurement
Organizational change and development
Business analysis practices, techniques and report writing
Business Process modeling
Techniques for program design, development, implementation and evaluation
Techniques for costbenefit analysis, performance evaluation and benchmarking
Research, surveying, data collection and analyses methodologies
Policy development, implementation and evaluation techniques
Best practice and riskmanaged approaches
Principles and techniques of project management
Human resources practices and principles
Knowledge of applicable health and safety legislation, including the rights and duties of workers.

COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Able to work independently, and cooperatively and collaboratively with all staff as part of a team
Possess organizational skills and flexibility to plan, initiate, organize and prioritize own work, in an environment of evolution and rapid change, and to balance multiple demands, conflicting priorities, and pressures
Provide technical leadership to plan, lead, coordinate, implement and manage projects to completion
Able to conduct research/reviews, compile/analyze issues/data, make judgments on the interpretation of issues/data, and formulate recommendations
Possess excellent consultative, collaboration and interpersonal skills, and the ability to persuade/influence others and to bring conflicting points of view to consensus
Possess strong evaluation, analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to make decisions
Possess strong assertive verbal and written communication, presentation and report writing skills
Possess strong existing computer skills including advanced computer skills for statistical modeling and data manipulation
Demonstrate leadership and initiative
Thorough and attentive to detail
Innovative and able to demonstrate a resultsoriented approach to problem solving
Able to demonstrate sound judgement
Flexible and adaptable to deal with shifting priorities
Customer service oriented with ability to exercise discretion, tact and diplomacy