Management Consultant - Toronto, Canada - City of Toronto

City of Toronto

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Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job ID: 36802

Job Category:
Human Resources

Division & Section:
Technology Services, Technology Standardization Delivery

Work Location:
Metro Hall, 55 John St.

Job Type & Duration:
Temporary (12 month) vacancy

Salary:
$112,000.00-$144,200.00

Shift Information:
Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

Affiliation:
Non-Union

Number of Positions Open: 1

Posting Period:10-May-2023 to 24-May-2023

In the complex, multi-divisional and multi-stakeholder environment that is the City of Toronto, our Technology Services Division plays a vital role in City's ability to deliver targeted IT programs and services and achieve business goals.

Both a strategic thinker and a results-oriented team player, you welcome the opportunity to support the standardization delivery planning process and translate it into actionable, quantitative plans in the role of Management Consultant.

In this role, you will contribute to the success of the City and the Division by providing value-added consulting services and support to senior leadership and technology delivery teams from strategy development through planning, implementation, reporting, change management and compliance.

You will focus on building resilient processes and delivery mechanisms to enable the Division to adopt new changes. You will be required to work in multi-stakeholder environment including staff from other Divisions.

You are expected to be proactive and take the lead on multiple initiatives, while delivering quality deliverables focussing on standardization.

Major Responsibilities
Your primary responsibilities as a Management Consultant, will be varied

Specifically, you will:

Implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements.
Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
Provides clientdriven, valueadded management consulting services to a portfolio of diverse consulting projects reflecting practice areas.
Provides policy analysis, formulation, coordination and advice to the commissioners and senior managers regarding programs, services and organization at both a strategic and operational level.
Shapes and defines consulting projects in consultation with client and key stakeholders, determines focus, scope, objectives, methodology and activities.
Directs the study process and applies methodologies, collects data, conducts analyses, draws conclusions and develops alternative solutions.
Brings analysis and conclusions forward to the client/stakeholders, chair meetings and promotes systematic discussion.
Supports management in assessing and devising solutions from a pragmatic and objective perspective.
Works in support of project steering committees and leads interdepartmental teams and working groups.
Assumes a temporary, shortterm managerial/supervisory role in an organization unit during the transition phase of an organizational change project.
Contributes to the development and implementation of strategic organization design and effective management/governance systems and processes at the corporate level.
Assists in the assessment and analysis of corporate organization effectiveness issues and conducts studies and prepares confidential reports with respect to program and service delivery changes; management policies, systems, processes and practices; management restructuring; and organization change.
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.
Promotes organization learning and takes steps to orchestrate change through corporate wide and interdepartmental initiatives
Fosters and maintains cooperative working relationships within and external to the organization; establishes and maintains contact with professionals in related fields to ensure skills, knowledge and practice are current.

Key Qualifications:

A university degree in Computer Science or a related discipline (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).
Considerable experience in standards, policy and process development and implementation, including best practices, principles, and methodology.
Considerable experience with Agile project Management, related tools (JIRA, Confluence) and techniques for managing Agile projects i.e. SCRUM and KANBAN, Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc.
Considerable experience managing largescale projects or programs of significant complexity and value with high risk.
Experience managing all aspects of transformational enterprisewide Technology projects in complex multidepartmental environments (including budget and timeline management, scope management, estimating and managing project resources, ris