MANAGER, CHILD CARE QUALITY ASSURANCE AND LICENSING

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We Care About Ontario's Children

Are you a motivated, risk-based and inspirational leader who gets energy in leading and developing teams? Would you enjoy engaging stakeholders in delivering licensing and compliance activities that align with Ontario's Regulator's Code of Practice? If so, please consider joining the Child Care Quality Assurance and Licensing Branch of the Ministry of Education and lead a regional team that plays an important role to ensure that Ontario families can rely on licensed child care locations delivering programs that are safe, healthy and serve the well-being of children..


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What can we offer you?

We offer a dynamic work environment and corporate culture that values respect, inclusion, teamwork and accountability.

The OPS is 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 and may include the following:
• Flexible work arrangements
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Maternity and parental leave top-up benefits, which cover adoptive parents
• Comprehensive health and dental plans
• Life and disability insurance

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How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility

We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black, and racialized individuals, as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

Visit the OPS Anti-Racism Policy and the OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint pages to learn more about the OPS commitment to advance racial equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the public service.

We offer employment accommodation across the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of Ontario's Human Rights Code. Refer to the "How to apply" section if you require a disability-related accommodation.

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About the job

Reporting to the Senior Manager, you will;
• Provide modern regulator regional leadership for a licensing team that ensures child care centres and home child care agencies and providers comply with legislation and regulations directives, ministry policy framework in order to support the learning and developmental needs, and safety, health and well-being of children in care.
• Lead the development, coordination and delivery of risk-based inspections that complies with applicable legislation, regulations and standards and use evidence-based approaches such as analytics to guide the use of regional program resources.
• Leads and manages a team in the delivery of a program or service operation and contributes to financial, business, strategic planning, performance measure and evaluation processes.
• Manage the coordination and delivery of inspections and other compliance activities for licenced child care centres and home child care agencies and providers.
• Exercise legal authority and provide leadership in taking a progressive compliance approach for licencing under the Child Care and Early Years Act, including issuing, renewing, revoking and suspending licences.

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What you bring to the team

You are responsible for being a leader by:

• leading a high-performing team to deliver risk-based compliance and licensing activities.
• managing the region's financial, administrative and human resources needs, including long-term strategic planning.
• having communication skills to provide expert advice and briefings to senior management and to develop reports, issues notes and presentations.
• having consultation skills to discuss and resolve inspection issues and to provide information, advice and/or compliance direction to key stakeholders.
• having influencing skills and use a wide-range of compliance tools to promote compliance with regulatory requirements.
• applying analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve policy/operational issues, assess risk and engage in dispute resolution with child care operators and other stakeholders.

You are innovative for the future by:

• coaching and mentoring team members and communicating regulatory compliance values, strategies, and expectations that align with modern regulator objectives.
• developing risk-based compliance strategies and apply the use of analytics and metrics to address program delivery problems and issues, which may be high-profile and without precedent.
• leading a high-performing virtual team by working together, while apart.

You are collaborative by:

• promoting employee engagement and an inclusive environment.
• working collaboratively with team members and across the ministry on program issues.
• building collaborative relationships with a diverse network of internal and external stakeholders.

Your technical expertise is needed by:

• having knowledge or experience working in a regulatory/compliance environment.
• having prior experience delivering a service in a highly regulated, multi level setting.
• developing and delivering a performance management/measurement, program evaluation and risk management practices.

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Additional information:

Note:

• In accordance with the Ontario Public Service (OPS), Employment Screening Checks Policy (ESCP), the top candidate(s) may be required to undergo a security screening check. Refer to the above to determine the screening checks that are required for this position.
  
  Required security screening checks along with your written consent, will be sent to the Transition and Security Office (TSO), Corporate Talent Programs Branch, Talent and Leadership Division to evaluate the results. If applicable, the TSO, with your written consent, will request and obtain any additional employment screening checks that were not obtained directly by you.
  
  A record under the Criminal Code and/or other federal offence record(s) does not automatically mean you will be ineligible for the position. The employment screening check(s) will only be reviewed and evaluated by the TSO for the purpose of making a security clearance decision. The details of an individual's employment screening check(s) will be considered in specific relation to the duties and responsibilities of the position being filled. Employment screening check records will be maintained by the TSO and kept strictly confidential.
• T-EU-185755/22

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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.