Are you a strategic, results-orientated leader with a passion for driving service delivery to be more modern and customer focused? If so, consider this opportunity with Treasury Board Secretariat, Enterprise Applications Branch within Central Agencies I&IT Cluster.
This leadership role is seeking to create the next stage of digital information management in the Ontario government that will enable organizational business transformation and support the government's digital agenda.
In the process of delivering policies and programs, the Ontario government creates tens of millions of documents and records every year. Due to the COVID pandemic, this number grows rapidly and has created new demand for digital information management to empower teamwork and collaboration as the Ontario government works tirelessly to support the pandemic response.
This is your opportunity to lead a world class team and partner with industry leaders in digital information management to further elevate government information use and connect public services in new and vital ways to support the people of Ontario.
The Ontario Public Service (OPS) is one of the largest employers in the province, employing more than 60,000 people. Every day we are modernizing government operations and improving public services. We have a wide range of meaningful and rewarding career opportunities in communities across Ontario. We welcome new ideas and new people, encourage learning and development, and reward achievement. No matter the position, we live the core values of trust, fairness, diversity, excellence, creativity, collaboration, efficiency and responsiveness.
What a career in the OPS can offer you: We are committed to be an employer of first choice, creating a positive and inclusive work environment. In addition to flexible work arrangements, collegial and professional work culture, career growth and development and on-the-job training to help you succeed, we offer a competitive total compensation package, which includes an attractive salary, defined benefit pension plan, comprehensive health and dental plan and much more.
Our team:The Enterprise Information Management unit provides modern information management services to enable Ontario government ministries and agencies make services easier for people and businesses to get the services they need digitally. This unit is a leading jurisdiction for the public sector and sets a forward-thinking digital information management platform to support more responsive and flexible public services for the people of Ontario.
About the job
• Provide strategic leadership, priority setting and direction for the conceptualization, development and implementation of strategies and initiatives to drive the priorities for the next stage of digital information management in the Ontario government.
• Ensure a focus on easier access to, and increased use of government information through highly scalable, innovative and resilient technology platforms to make public sector services and service delivery modern and customer focused.
• Implementation services which focus on digital enablement; the building of digital capacity for the modern environment; and the development and implementation of efficient, integrated, sustainable business and operating models.
• Build a collaborative and customer-centric culture.
• Provide leadership and promotion of a culture where coaching, mentoring, and commitment to continuous learning and dynamic leadership practices are valued and exercised.
• Work with partners across the Division, other ministries, and third parties to develop and drive focused quality, value-added and scalable digital and data-driven programs and services.
• Provide direction and leadership in the development, implementation and delivery of modern, sustainable digital services for the Ontario government to operate in a COVID and post-COVID world.
• Lead strategies, best practices and operational policies, standards, procedures and guidelines to build the foundation for the whole life of digital government records.
• As a member of the management team, participate in Divisional/Ministry strategic planning and decision-making activities to support OPS and ministry corporate priorities leading to the transformation, cultural change and direction for the Division.
What you bring to the team
Leadership skills:
• You are a leader with demonstrated experience in strategic leadership to drive major change required for delivering key priorities for a modern forward-thinking digital information management team.
• You are a strategic and results-oriented leader with a background working with highly scalable, innovative and resilient technology platforms.
• You have experience fostering an environment of high performance, learning, growth and continuous improvement.
Change Management:
• You are a values-based inspiring and inclusive leader who champions change through empowering others.
• You are committed to continuous learning across your organization, delivering on strategies by achieving excellence through employees.
• You demonstrate a high-level of professional judgement, political acuity and interpersonal skills, which inspires trust and confidence.
• You understand and apply best practices for employee engagement when managing people and organizational culture change.
Relationship Management:
• You are a proven strategic collaborator who can build linkages and partnerships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders across ministries and agencies to promote excellence in digital information management practices in Ontario government ministries and agencies and meet government-wide and ministry mandates.
• You have proven expertise in building a collaborative and customer-centric team culture.
• You have superior communication and executive briefing skills to effectively provide strategic advice to senior leadership.
• You have demonstrated a high degree of political acuity to anticipate and respond to politically sensitive situations.
• You are a sophisticated communicator able to represent government and lead external stakeholder engagements.
Technical expertise:
• You have knowledge of business systems and infrastructure technologies in order to provide leadership in the identification and evaluation of information technology options for business areas, the development of new systems or systems modifications and the deployment or enhancements to infrastructure solutions.
• You have knowledge of theory and principles of systems design and development, and related methods, techniques, and practices, to provide leadership for the analysis and definition of business and information technology requirements, design, development, testing and implementation of systems solutions and, evaluation of hardware and software.
• You maintain current knowledge of trends and advances in information technology, especially as they relate to content services technologies and related systems and services.
• You have knowledge of and extensive experience in production support break/fix methodologies (regular and major incidents) and operational system processing, service activation, and sustainment practices and processes.
• You have knowledge of records and information management practices to provide innovative leadership to direct enterprise-wide digital solutions aimed at effectively collecting, preserving and promoting the records of the Government of Ontario.
• You have experience driving focused quality, value-added and scalable digital and data-driven business models, programs and services.
• You have experience in performance measurement development, monitoring and evaluation.
Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Anti-RacismThe OPS is an innovative, responsive and accountable public service that works hard to be diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable. Diversifying leadership is a top priority for the OPS. Our goal is to achieve parity with the Ontario labour force by 2025 for the most underrepresented groups (Indigenous, racialized and persons with disabilities) on our leadership teams.
The OPS is collecting socio-demographic information to identify potential barriers and help underrepresented groups to achieve equity in senior leadership roles. We invite you to contribute to our efforts in building a more diverse, inclusive and accessible OPS by completing our voluntary survey, which will be provided to all applicants once the advertisement has closed.
The OPS is an accessible employer and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment, including the recruitment process.
Visit the
OPS Anti-Racism Policy and the
OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint to learn more about the OPS commitment to advancing racial equity, diversity and inclusion.