Are you looking for an opportunity to develop and showcase your leadership and policy development skills in delivering on the government's ambitious transportation policy mandate, including preparing for the future of mobility?
Consider joining the Emerging Technologies Office in the Transportation Policy Branch, where you will play a significant role in framing the Ministry's approach to key policy files, such as electric vehicles. As a Senior Policy Advisor, you will develop policies and initiatives to ensure that emerging transportation technologies are adopted into the transportation system in a way that is safe, sustainable, and accessible. You will engage with key industry, municipal and inter-jurisdictional stakeholders and work horizontally with other areas of the Ministry of Transportation and other ministries.
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About the job
As a Senior Policy Advisor in the Emerging Technologies Office you will play a key role in shaping the future of Ontario's transportation system. You will lead and support a number of key strategic transportation policy initiatives, engage with key industry, municipal and inter-jurisdictional stakeholders, and work horizontally with other ministries.
In this role, you will:
• Lead and support transportation policy and program initiatives, such as those to promote electric vehicles
• Conduct and manage complex policy and program files, using well developed problem solving and analytical skills
• Provide policy expertise and advice to senior management on a range of policy and program initiatives, issues and their impact on the achievement of the ministry's policy agenda
• Lead or participate on a variety of internal and external working groups, and stakeholder consultations
What you bring to the team
Policy and Analysis Experience and Knowledge
• You can use policy, principles and techniques to lead the development and implementation of transportation policies, programs, options, strategies and initiatives
• You can provide interpretation to senior management, and advise on policy and programs, relating to a broad range of transportation issues
• You can lead the development of consultation frameworks, and assess the network of inter-jurisdictional transportation stakeholders, interest and advocacy groups, and professional associations
• You have knowledge of multi-modal transportation theory, principles and practices, and legislation governing transportation
• You have knowledge of socio-economic theory and principles to assess the economic, social, fiscal and corporate implications of initiatives and proposals
Consultation and Leadership Skills
• You have consultation and consensus-building skills to discuss and resolve diverse and competing policy and program-related issues
• You can use leadership skills to gain support from other ministries and various stakeholder groups
• You can build partnerships by using influencing and consensus building skills to develop effective linkages and consultation frameworks
Communication and Presentation Skills
• You have oral communications skills and techniques to lead and represent the ministry or provincial position on policy consultations and negotiations
• You can use written communication skills and techniques to coordinate, prepare and present reports, policy analyses, briefing notes and issues analyses to senior management
• You have presentation skills to explain program policy positions and promote policy and strategic initiatives to ministry executives and internal/external stakeholders
Project Management Skills
• You know project management techniques and principles to plan and manage options, impact analyses, and policy review and development processes
• You can plan, conceptualize, organize, implement, monitor and complete projects and effective alternatives and solutions to transportation issues
• You can effectively use project resources, and achieve program deliverables
• You can manage competing priorities and develop critical paths and work plans to complete time sensitive files