Regional Lead

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Do you enjoy working on a team and managing a diverse range of strategic and operational projects? Would you like to have impact as you develop frontline client relationships, maintain and modernize correctional and community safety facilities?

Consider this rewarding opportunity with the Infrastructure Division at the Ministry of the Solicitor General. As a Regional Lead, you will provide project management expertise and overall strategic direction in the design, development and implementation of processes and projects to ensure our existing institutions, facilities and training colleges are safe, functional and responsive to the needs of staff and clients.

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About the job

In this role, you will:
• Learn about and help maintain and modernize a wide range of correctional and community safety facilities such as correctional institutions, regional offices, officer training facilities, labs and more
• Provide oversight and team leadership to team members and ministry partners
• Work with senior management, project managers, and other team leaders to understand current and future facility and accommodation needs and priorities
• Support development of strategic project plans assessments and reviews for facilities and asset management items
• Oversee research on ministry operations (e.g. correctional institutions) and long-term planning needs
• Create and implement communication strategies for development issues and foster program awareness of current systems to support them

Note: This position requires occasional travel to ministry program facilities in geographic area

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What you bring to the team

Technical Knowledge

You have:
• Ability to develop programs and policies, and understand how government decisions are made
• Understanding of project planning and financial management principles and methodologies
• Ability to learn and apply knowledge of service provider roles and responsibilities (such as Infrastructure Ontario), and service delivery models
• Knowledge or ability to learn and understand key issues facing the ministry and its programs (e.g. correctional institutions, OPP, Chief Coroner/Forensics) to prepare information/decision notes
• Ability to acquire and apply the ministry's programs, structures, and core mandates (Correctional institutions, OPP, Chief Coroner/Forensics, etc) to manage research and project planning and identify the ministry's interests

Stakeholder Management Skills

You can:
• Develop, strengthen and collaborate with stakeholders on high-profile issues and service planning
• Demonstrate negotiation skills and political acuity to negotiate changes and achieve consensus in various forums and support continuous project delivery on time and on target
• Provide advice and interpretation on sensitive and unique issues
• Demonstrate consultation and interpersonal skills to resolve complex issues and work in a team environment

Analytical and Problem Solving Skills

You can:
• Critically analyze and apply benchmarks to project plans to provide recommendations that will proactively resolve risks and barriers
• Be responsive and solve for unique evolving challenges
• Analyze current and emerging issues, trends and directions

Communication Skills

• You can develop, prepare and present reports, work plans and processes, as well as TB/MBC submissions to senior management and stakeholders
• You are adept at writing in plain and succinct language to support greater understanding to a variety of audiences

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Don't meet every qualification?

If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!

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How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility

We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer  accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please  contact us.

Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

• diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• accessibility
• Anti-Racism Policy

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Additional information:

Note:

• About security checks:
  A criminal or other federal offence record does not automatically disqualify you from the position. We consider each situation based on the position's responsibilities.
  If a check is needed and you've lived outside of Canada in the past 5 years for 6 or more months in a row, or if you are not a Canadian resident, you'll need to provide an out-of-country police clearance certificate from the country you lived in.
  Employment screening checks are only reviewed and evaluated by the Transition and Security Office, which also maintains them and keeps them strictly confidential.
• The information that you provide for the purpose of this competition and the results from this competition may be used to fill other positions. These positions may be of various tenures including short-term assignments. Your information and the results from this competition will be retained for the purpose of filling vacancies in accordance with the applicable collective agreement or policy provisions.
• T-SL-244146/26

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How to apply:

1. You must apply online.
2. Your cover letter and resume combined should not exceed five (5) pages. For tips and tools on how to write a concise cover letter and resume, review the Writing a Cover Letter and Resume: Tips, Tools and Resources.
3. Customize your cover letter and resume to the qualifications listed on the job ad. Using concrete examples, you must show how you demonstrated the requirements for this job. We rely on the information you provide to us.
4. Read the job description to make sure you understand this job.
5. OPS employees are required to quote their WIN EMPLOYEE ID number when applying.
6. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please Contact Us to provide your contact information. Recruitment services team will contact you within 48 hours.

Language requirements and assessment:
All external Ontario Public Service (OPS) job ads are posted in English and French. Check the "position(s) language" section at the top of each job ad for the language requirements. For all roles, candidates are assessed in English, the business language of the OPS. If the position is bilingual (English/French), you'll also need to pass a French-language proficiency test.

Exigences en matière de langue et évaluation:
Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario (FPO) sont affichées en français et en anglais. Consultez la section « Langue du ou des postes » en haut de chaque offre d'emploi pour connaître les exigences linguistiques. Pour tous les postes, les candidats sont évalués en anglais, la langue d'affaires de la FPO. Si le poste est bilingue (anglais/français), vous devrez également passer un test de compétences linguistiques en français.