Program Manager
Role Overview
Manage day-to-day delivery, administration, and oversight of an assigned portfolio of EV ChargeON projects.
Work with funding recipients, government partners, and internal teams from application and evaluation through contracting, implementation, reimbursement, and reporting.
The role maintains project controls, monitors budgets and milestones, supports funding-agreement compliance, and uses project data for performance assessment and improvement.
Key Skills for This Role
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Opportunity
Manage day-to-day delivery, administration, and oversight of an assigned portfolio of EV ChargeON projects.
Work with funding recipients, government partners, and internal teams from application and evaluation through contracting, implementation, reimbursement, and reporting.
The role maintains project controls, monitors budgets and milestones, supports funding-agreement compliance, and uses project data for performance assessment and improvement.
About Ontario Centre of Innovation
OCI brings industry, academia, government, and investors together to accelerate commercialization and scale Ontario-made technologies.
Program and project delivery
- Manage project plans, milestones, budgets, documentation, and recipient communications throughout project lifecycles.
- Support application intake, eligibility screening, proposal assessment, external evaluations, and internal review meetings; document decisions and recommendations.
- Coordinate funding agreement preparation, execution, and activation; review change, extension, amendment, and withdrawal requests.
- Guide recipients on program requirements, eligible expenses, milestones, evidence, and reporting obligations.
- Monitor scope, budget, schedule, delivery barriers, and risks; work with recipients on mitigation and escalate material concerns.
- Forecast completions, commitments, and reimbursements; identify underspending or released funding and recommend portfolio actions.
- Coordinate completion and reimbursement reviews, verify supporting evidence, and recommend payments for approval.
- Monitor agreement compliance and reporting obligations, including annual usage reporting after project completion.
- Coordinate reporting schedules, validate project status, resolve submission gaps, and review uptime, sessions, utilization, and energy-delivered trends.
- Prepare portfolio updates and government and internal briefing materials on progress, forecasts, risks, outcomes, and recommended actions.
- Improve program criteria, evaluation tools, workflows, guidance, FAQs, and standard operating procedures.
- Maintain AccessOCI and related project records; support testing and improvement of portal workflows, reporting modules, and reminders.
Partnerships and improvement
- Coordinate resources and resolve issues with Finance, Operations, Business Development, Marketing and Communications, and other OCI teams.
- Engage government partners, utilities, local distribution companies, charging network operators, and other stakeholders to support project delivery.
- Monitor sector developments and identify opportunities to strengthen program processes and partnerships.
- Identify project outcomes, lessons learned, and potential success stories; coordinate accurate materials for review and approval.
- Recommend portfolio priorities and program improvements, support future program design and other OCI initiatives, and complete additional assigned duties.
Requirements and skills
- University degree in Business, Public Administration, Engineering, Environmental Studies, or a related field, and 5–7 years of related experience in program development, delivery, or portfolio management.
- Experience administering government-funded programs, infrastructure projects, or funding agreements; EV charging, clean transportation, energy, or utilities experience is an asset.
- Strong project lifecycle knowledge and ability to identify delivery risks and recommend practical mitigation.
- Strong project and time management across multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.
- Experience with budgets, funding commitments, forecasts, expenditures, and reimbursements.
- Analytical and problem-solving ability, including interpreting data, identifying trends, and preparing recommendations and reports.
- Strong oral and written communication, stakeholder relationship management, and customer service skills.
- Able to work independently and collaboratively with recipients, internal teams, government, and industry stakeholders.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency; strong working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint, databases, reporting or visualization tools, and ability to learn online administration systems.
- Experience developing processes, templates, and guidance; commitment to continuous improvement, accurate records, confidentiality, and responsible public-fund stewardship.
Working conditions
- Standard office hours, with occasional events, workshops, or stakeholder meetings outside normal business hours.
- Travel is approximately 10% within Ontario.
Opening status
The posting is for a current opening.
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