Senior Consultant
If you are committed to public service, enjoy collaborating with others, share our values and have a desire to learn and grow, join The City of Calgary. City employees deliver the services, run the programs and operate the facilities which make a difference in our community. We support work-life balance, promote physical and psychological safety, and offer competitive wages, pensions, and benefits. Together we make Calgary a great place to make a living, a great place to make a life.
The City is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive and equitable workplace which is representative of the community we serve. We welcome those who have demonstrated a commitment to upholding the values of equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism and reconciliation. Applications are encouraged from members of groups that are historically disadvantaged and underrepresented. Accommodations are available during the hiring process, upon request.
As a Senior Consultant, you will independently support The City of Calgary’s Water, Wastewater, and
Stormwater services by providing strategic advisory services, managing complex projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to diagnose issues and implement solutions. You will contribute to business planning, performance reporting, and continuous improvement, helping the Water services navigate emerging challenges and deliver valued services to Calgarians. Primary duties include:
• Provide strategic guidance to Senior Leadership and cross-functional teams on business practices, support with diagnosing business problems, and sensemaking across broad functional groups within the Corporation. It includes bringing together groups with competing mandates, providing strategic support on confidential and sensitive files, and providing presentations, reports, memos and recommendations to seniorleaders, as well as facilitating discussions with leaders.
• Support the Senior leadership and management teams, provide advisory services on efficiencies working across the service lines to identify issues, building collaborative solutions, and leading business planning activities, as well as providing strategic support to long term visioning for the Water Utility and its services.
• Develop strategic guiding documents and plans for water, wastewater and stormwater services, and
Business Unit levels to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and foster a unified, results-driven approach to service delivery.
• Leverage industry insights and best practices to recommend and champion innovative strategies that
improve service delivery, enhance resilience, and ensure the water, wastewater and stormwater services
are well-prepared for future growth and long-term sustainability. This includes communicating problem
statement, risks to organization of ‘status quo’ and/or a business case for change, as well as influencing and sensemaking to promote and advance solutions.
• Lead and drive complex projects, ensuring collaboration across multiple departments, service excellence teams, and corporate support functions to achieve strategic objectives and deliver results.
• Consolidate situation reports and updates from diverse groups, and identify risk related projects for senior leadership.
• Create high-quality reports, reviews, and briefing materials to facilitate executive decision-making
Qualifications
• A degree in Business, Science, Social Sciences, Environmental Planning, Public Administration, Marketing or Communications and at least 8 years of directly related progressive experience.
• Additional formalized courses and/or designations in the following area are considered an asset: project management, facilitation, change management, market research, policy development, public
communications, coaching, negotiations, or business analysis.
• Experience in municipal government or a water utility or large, complex organization is considered an asset.
• The successful candidate must be self-motivated, highly collaborative and organized. The positions demand a high attention to detail, ability to prioritize and deliver on multiple ongoing projects.
• Excellent communication and time management skills to ensure that tasks are completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Your problem-solving and systems thinking abilities will enable you to thrive in this dynamic environment.
