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.