RQ11818 - Program Manager - Senior

Deliverables:

The consultant will be expected to provide high-quality, timely, and executive-ready deliverables, including but not limited to:

• Strategic analyses, advice, recommendations, and executive briefing materials.
  
• Future-state implementation plans, transition plans, roadmaps, and operationalization strategies.
  
• Strategic frameworks, options papers, discussion papers, and straw-dog concepts.
  
• Executive readiness and leadership alignment materials.
  
• Governance frameworks, accountability models, and decision-making structures.
  
• Facilitation plans, workshop design, meeting materials, and session outputs.
  
• Strategic communications, presentations, speaking materials, and executive messaging.
  
• Organizational capability-building and knowledge transfer materials.
  
• Stakeholder engagement and change management strategies.
  
• Continuous improvement recommendations and implementation support plans.
  
• Priority projects, initiatives, and special assignments as directed by executive leadership.
  
• Program plans, integrated work plans, and implementation tracking materials;
  
• Executive briefings, strategic analyses, issue notes, presentations, and decision-support materials;
  
• Governance materials, including agendas, meeting summaries, action logs, and executive discussion documents;
  
• Strategic planning and roadmap support materials;
  
• Stakeholder engagement and coordination materials;
  
• Risks, issues, dependency, and mitigation tracking documentation;
  
• Performance monitoring and status reporting products;
  
• Environmental scans, jurisdictional research, and synthesis reports;
  
• Executive-ready communications and presentation materials aligned with Ministry standards.
  
• Deliverables will be developed in alignment with ministry priorities and executive direction and will adapt to evolving organizational needs, emerging priorities, and transformation requirements.
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Skill Set Requirements:

Executive Strategic Advisory:

• Demonstrated experience serving as a trusted advisor to senior executives, executive leadership teams, Assistant Deputy Ministers, executives, or equivalent senior leaders.
  
• Demonstrated experience providing strategic advice and support on complex organizational, operational, governance, and transformation initiatives.
  
• Experience developing executive briefing materials, options papers, strategic analyses, recommendations, discussion papers, and executive-ready presentations.
  
• Experience identifying strategic opportunities, risks, issues, and mitigation approaches to support executive decision-making.
  
• Experience supporting governance bodies, executive committees, leadership forums, and decision-making structures.
  
• Demonstrated experience facilitating executive workshops, planning sessions, retreats, and leadership discussions.
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparing presentations, executive communications, speaking notes, briefing notes, and strategic correspondence.
  
• Demonstrated political acuity, judgment, and ability to operate effectively in complex stakeholder and executive environments.
  
• Experience providing executive support and strategic capacity during periods of organizational change and transformation.
  

Organizational Transformation, Strategic Planning & Capacity Building Experience:

• Demonstrated experience supporting organizational transformation, operating model implementation, organizational design, or future-state initiatives.
  
• Experience developing strategic plans, implementation roadmaps, transition plans, and organizational development strategies.
  
• Experience translating strategic vision and future-state concepts into actionable implementation plans.
  
• Demonstrated experience supporting leadership alignment, organizational readiness, change management, and transformation activities.
  
• Experience developing governance frameworks, accountability models, decision-making structures, and operating approaches.
  
• Experience applying leading practices and external perspectives to strengthen organizational effectiveness and performance.
  
• Experience building organizational capabilities through coaching, mentoring, facilitation, advisory support, and knowledge transfer.
  
• Ability to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and support implementation of organizational enhancements.
  
• Experience supporting implementation of new functions, capabilities, services, or ways of working.
  
• Strong understanding of organizational design, change management, strategic planning, and transformation methodologies.
  

Stakeholder Engagement, Facilitation:

• Demonstrated experience establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships and partnerships across multiple stakeholder groups.
  
• Experience working with government, healthcare, broader public sector, or similarly complex stakeholder environments.
  
• Demonstrated experience facilitating consensus-building and aligning diverse stakeholder perspectives around strategic objectives.
  
• Experience developing stakeholder engagement strategies, communications approaches, and partnership models.
  
• Demonstrated experience managing competing priorities, sensitive issues, and stakeholder expectations.
  
• Experience communicating across multiple functional areas and with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and meeting leadership skills.
  
• Experience influencing outcomes without direct authority.
  
• Demonstrated ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and support cross-functional alignment.
  
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to work effectively in team-based environments.