Program director Jobs in Waterloo, ON

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Major Projects, Program Director - Water

As the frequency and intensity of floods, droughts and storms increases, the water industry must continue to build resiliency and lead from the front. Together with our clients, we are thinking and doing things differently to help pre-empt and prepare for what\'s next. Be a part of this dynamic and committed team of diverse water specialists and drive change for your community.

Who we are looking for

As the Water Program Director, you will lead program and project teams with a focus on delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients. Your role will encompass providing strategic program management leadership, driving both business development and client pursuits to expand our impact. You will be pivotal in preparing and presenting bids, proposals, and estimates, ensuring that each submission reflects our commitment to excellence and innovation. Your leadership will not only guide your team to success but also enhance our reputation as a leader in sustainable water management solutions. You’ll be able to apply our powerful global network of skills and decades of experience to create positive water outcomes that respect nature and nurture communities.

Responsibilities

• Program Leadership : Provide program management leadership across major water programs in Ontario, and potentially across the Americas
• Develop Key Relationships : Develop client relationships, including ensuring proactive positioning for upcoming opportunities. Establish and maintain trusted relationships across key clients and industry sectors.
• Business Development : Focused business development to support the success and development of the business
• Culture of Innovation : Define the execution plan to disseminate innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons.
• Stakeholder Management : Develop and implement stakeholder engagement strategies and plans across the program to identify relevant stakeholders, to create mutually supportive working relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice at both project and program levels. Work with Water Market Leaders to identify business opportunities within the water sector.
• Transformational Change Management : Lead the detailed design of projects within a transformational change program and manage their delivery, ensuring integration with related projects; use structured change management methodologies to drive acceptance of change and to embed desired culture and behaviors.
• Leadership and Direction : Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function\'s strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization\'s mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals.
• Personal Capability Building : Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Project Team Management : Lead large project and program teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project / program vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; manage resources across projects / programs; negotiate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Project Assurance : Lead the design and delivery of project assurance reviews, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Project Scope Definition : Lead the planning and delivery of complex, wide-ranging information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on program and project deliverables, ensuring integration across the program and with the wider portfolio, where present.
• Project Governance : Ensure that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined within the project-delivery and project-management office teams, and ensure project compliance with the organization\'s wider program and / or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
• Portfolio Management : Initiate and lead the governance and delivery of programs within a significant area of responsibility, using an appropriate program and project management methodology to give assurance that intended outcomes are identified and achieved.
• Enterprise Business Analysis : Interpret the business need and identify solution recommendations to business problems at a business unit level. Lead the improvement efforts that are within span of control at this level.
• Project Benefit Realization : Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized across a program.
• Project Resource Management : Lead the negotiation and deployment of annual and longer-term program and project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Project Risk and Issue Management : Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree on recovery plans.

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As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.

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