Senior Portfolio Planning Advisor

The Senior Portfolio Planning Advisor will provide planning and project management expertise to portfolio leaders to support and facilitate priority initiatives, and manage effective relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Provides planning and project management expertise to portfolio leaders to support and facilitate priority initiatives.
• Supports the Senior Director of Operations and other senior leaders as directed on items related to the strategic plan directions, by providing guidance and support to implementation planning, and the process of implementation status reporting.
• Manages effective relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders including the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health and local public health units.
• Leads and manages a range of projects, contributes to portfolio-wide initiatives in the operation plan, suggesting areas for improvement/alignment and possible solutions on internal processes.
• Identifies, tracks and advises portfolio leadership on risks and mitigation strategies on the portfolio’s priority initiatives, including their alignment to the PHO Strategic Plan, ABP and Operational Plans.
• Provides advice, tools, and project management support advancing priority initiatives.
• Designs/adapts project management approaches, planning tools and techniques as applicable in a manner that enables high quality technological approaches to information gathering, sharing and analysis as it relates to portfolio wide projects or initiatives.
• Stays abreast of leading practices in project management, strategic, business and operational planning and identifies opportunities for improvement accordingly.
• Supports preparation of materials for situational awareness (e.g., briefing notes, evidence briefs, jurisdictional scans, SWOT analyses, situational reports on key issues and initiatives).
• Supports preparation of materials for meetings and briefings (e.g., agendas, slide decks, background materials).
• Acts as a liaison for the portfolio on organization-wide requests (e.g., audits, freedom of information requests) to coordinate and manage requests.
• Summarizes and regularly reports on key portfolio metrics.
• Undertakes other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid vacation days
• Paid sick leave
• Health insurance
• Pension plan
• Employee assistance program