Management Consultant - Toronto, Canada - City of Toronto

City of Toronto

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job ID: 36514

Job Category:
Human Resources

Division & Section:
Policy, Planning, Finance & Admin, PPF&A Financial Management

Work Location:100 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M5G 1P5

Job Type & Duration:
Full time, Permanent vacancy

Salary:
$112, $144,200.00 per year

Shift Information:
Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation:
Non-Union

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period: 20-Apr-2023 to 18-May-2023

Job Summary:

Provides management consulting services for senior management in the Policy, Planning, Finance and Administration division.

Leads and provides expert support in corporate continuous improvement initiatives in the practice areas of; business process review and re-engineering; program and service review and improvement; quality assurance; customer service improvement, organizational development; business planning and strategy development; change management; performance measurement, benchmarking and reporting of results.

Major Responsibilities:

Reviews and reengineers business processes and workflows, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations, establish service standards, assist in implementing required changes, and utilize performance measures to monitor the improvements achieved.
Applies quality improvement concepts and techniques such as Lean and Six Sigma to define an improvement opportunity, measure existing process performance, map and analyze the process to determine root causes of poor performance, identify, test and implement a solution to the problem, and monitor the improved process to ensure that implemented improvements are sustained.
Leads and provides guidance to divisional business process review teams to build and manage cooperative relationships within a division and with other divisions.
Provides clientdriven, valueadded management consulting services and strategic advice and support to divisions, agencies and corporations through a portfolio of diverse consulting projects and corporate continuous improvement initiatives reflecting practice areas.
Promotes, educates, advocates and applies Excellence Canada principles to foster organizational excellence.
Shapes and defines consulting projects and corporate continuous improvement initiatives in consultation with clients and key stakeholders, determines focus, scope, objectives, methodology, activities and timing.
Designs and implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures for consulting projects and/or corporate initiatives
Analyzes internal trends and external comparisons to gauge program performance and to assess the effectiveness of changes made.
Collects and manages information using computer software and interprets financial and nonfinancial information to evaluate program effectiveness.
Compares and benchmark Toronto's performance internally over multiyear timeframes, and externally against other Canadian and world cities, including the identification of best/better practices for service improvement
Works collaboratively with project teams and leads crossdivisional/agency teams and working groups.
Brings analysis and conclusions forward to the client/stakeholders, chairs meetings and promotes systematic discussion
Assumes a temporary, shortterm managerial/supervisory role, if appropriate, in an organization unit during the transition or implementation phase of an organizational change project
Supports management in assessing and devising solutions from a pragmatic and objective perspective
Provides analysis, policy formulation, coordination, briefing notes, presentations and advice to senior managers regarding programs, services, performance and corporate issues at both a strategic and operational level
Assists in the assessment and analysis of corporate organizational effectiveness issues and conducts studies and prepares confidential reports with respect to program and service delivery changes; management policies, systems, processes and practices
Promotes organizational learning and facilitates the building of organizational capacity to undertake continuous improvement activities in the various practice areas through coaching, training workshops and other techniques
Researches, reviews and reports on existing and new management tools and methodologies and advises senior managers on emerging management techniques and other applied social science concepts and their applicability to the City
Ensures and fosters strong cooperative working relationships with city divisions, agencies and corporations and develops and maintains strategic alliances through representing the City in partnerships with other municipal, provincial, national or international organizations in area of practice
Establishes and maintains contact with professionals in related fields to ensure skills, knowledge and practice are current