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Manager Strategic Initiatives and Program Deliver

Skilled Trades Ontario
Mississauga, CAN
Contract
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
Strategic program leadershipProgram and project managementWork planning and schedulingGovernance and performance frameworksStakeholder engagementPartnership management

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Position details

Manager, Strategic Initiatives and Program Delivery at Skilled Trades Ontario, reporting to the Director of Strategic Relations and Public Affairs.

Fixed-term position lasting 12 to 18 months; hiring range is $105,677 to $147,964 per year; 36.25 hours per week.

Location listed as Mississauga, Ontario.

Organization mandate

Skilled Trades Ontario is a Crown agency responsible for skilled-trades certification in Ontario.

Its mandate includes establishing and administering apprenticeship programs, issuing certificates, assessing experience and qualifications, administering exams, maintaining a public register, and researching apprenticeships and trades.

Role overview

Leads planning, implementation, and delivery of strategic programs and initiatives supporting organizational priorities.

Acts as organizational lead for assigned initiatives, including the Union Training and Innovation Program (UTIP), coordinating governance, engagement, delivery, communications, implementation, and reporting.

UTIP work supports apprenticeship modernization, apprentice progression, and completion.

Strategic program leadership

  • Lead development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of strategic initiatives and special projects.
  • Develop workplans, schedules, governance structures, performance measures, and reporting frameworks.
  • Translate funding commitments into workplans with deliverables, accountable leads, milestones, resource requirements, and departmental dependencies.
  • Identify risks, issues, opportunities, delivery gaps, resource constraints, and proposed changes; develop mitigation strategies and recommendations.
  • Advise senior leadership, monitor outcomes, and support funding accountability, reporting, and evaluation.

Partnerships and coordination

  • Build relationships with unions, employers, industry associations, government partners, training providers, contractors, subject matter experts, and community organizations.
  • Lead consultations, focus groups, surveys, advisory committees, and working groups.
  • Coordinate cross-department contributions, including standards and curriculum modernization initiatives.
  • Provide strategic capacity for emerging priorities, special projects, consultations, stakeholder initiatives, and cross-functional workstreams.

Requirements

  • The posting identifies a Manager-level role responsible for leading strategic initiatives and program delivery.
  • Ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives and manage external partnerships, program resources, and strategic delivery.
  • Ability to translate strategic objectives and approved funding commitments into integrated workplans, deliverables, milestones, accountable leads, and resource requirements.
  • Ability to identify delivery risks, issues, dependencies, gaps, and resource constraints and develop mitigation strategies and recommendations.
  • Ability to provide strategic advice and monitor outcomes against scope, schedule, and organizational objectives.

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