PROGRAM MANAGER FLEET STRATEGIC PROJECTS

• Job ID: 56748
• Job Category: Project Management
• Division & Section: Fleet Services, Business Transformation Initiatives
• Work Location: Hybrid with minimum 2 days in office per week. Possible in-office locations include 843 Eastern Avenue, 1050 Ellesmere Road, 150 Disco Road and Union Station. 
• Job Type & Duration: Full-time, Permanent Vacancy
• Salary: $113,683.00 - $155,216.00 annually
• Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week
• Affiliation: Non-Union
• Number of Positions Open: 1
• Posting Period: 29-May-2025 to 12-Jun-2025 
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About the position

Join an innovative group of professionals focused on improving the way the City moves. Contribute your program management, business transformation expertise and passion for environmental resilience and sustainability towards lowering green house gas (GHG) emissions produced by City of Toronto fleets. 

This program plans, constructs, and operationalizes charging infrastructure to support zero emission vehicles. It also leads other sustainability initiatives related to City operations, including a comprehensive bicycle program. This program manager will act as a champion and thought leader as it relates to shifting the City’s fleets to zero emissions and drives the necessary processes, policies and change management initiatives to meet relevant TransformTO goals.

This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned people leader with extensive experience implementing system-wide change initiatives, executing complex projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders and focused on working collaboratively across teams and facilitating meaningful stakeholder engagement.

About the division

With the largest municipal fleet in Canada and one of the most complex fleets in North America, the City of Toronto relies on the Fleet Services Division to provide responsive, efficient fleet management services to City divisions, agencies and corporations that maximize safety and environmental sustainability.

What you'll do in this role

• Manage the development and delivery of a strategic, comprehensive, centre led electric vehicle charging infrastructure program within Fleet Services and relevant City divisions, agencies, and corporations
• Develop and implement new sustainability and GHG mitigating programs
• Act as a thought leader and champion of the sustainability program within Fleet Services and relevant partner divisions
• Supervise and motivate a team of diverse professionals, ensuring effective teamwork, high standards of work quality, and continuous improvement
• Align activities between teams within Fleet Services, and other relevant zero-emission asset transition stakeholders
• Work with internal and external contracted services to deliver small, medium and large-scale capital infrastructure projects
• Oversee vendor invoicing and performance, as well as act as a program lead for large procurement processes
• Develop financial and data analytics models to inform senior management of progress and track spending
• Manage the application of federal funding grants and other potential external sources of funding
• Write communication materials including council reports, presentations, stakeholder consultation workshop guides, and reports
• Advise and make recommendations to the senior management team within Fleet Services and other relevant senior leaders within the City of Toronto

What you'll need to succeed in this role

• Post-secondary education pertinent to the job function
• Considerable senior level experience in the management of complex, multi-stakeholder programs which require delivery under demanding timeframes
• Considerable experience managing procurement and contract management processes, including developing call documents, overseeing vendor invoicing and performance and maintaining compliance with procurement and contract management policies
• Experience planning for, overseeing installation of and/or managing electric vehicle charging infrastructure is an asset
• Proven record as an effective people leader, with the ability to manage diverse professionals that deliver complex planning and capital infrastructure projects, and the demonstrated ability to foster a strong collaborative culture
• Experience leading meaningful stakeholder engagement processes, including the facilitation of key engagement methods like consensus building and strategic planning workshops.
• Experience applying change management strategies to systems change initiatives
• Strong knowledge of the following: environmental resilience and sustainability; applying an equity, diversity and inclusion lens; anti-racism and anti-oppression approaches
• Excellent report writing, communication (oral and written), presentation, interpersonal skills and ability to provide timely and comprehensive advice to senior management to assist in evidence-based decision making
• Considerable experience, preparing reports, briefing notes, procurement documents, business cases, strategy and research papers
• Experience with financial management, budgeting and forecasting, including program/project financial planning and reporting
• Highly developed relationship building and communication skills with the ability to establish effective working relationships with colleagues, senior leaders, key stakeholders in City divisions, and external stakeholders
• Ability to work independently, manage daily workload, set priorities and meet required deadlines with conflicting demands and changing priorities
• While all qualified applicants will be considered, lived experience as an Indigenous person, a Black person or a member of an equity-deserving group is an asset. Please feel welcome to self-identify in your cover letter

Join us

If you are interested in learning more about this exciting role, you can participate in an information session on June 4th from 4pm - 5pm. You will have the opportunity to ask questions related to the position, the City's application process, and what it’s like to work for the City of Toronto and within the Fleet Services Division.

Program Manager, Sustainability Information Session details:

Date: June 4, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDUyNzkwM2ItYzk4Ny00N2E3LTllMzktMzZjNzhiMDYzYjE1%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22f0bc8ec6-9ed8-4d0c-9189-411ad949cc65%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221d605b91-848d-4ea2-8531-e1ae91654bd9%22%7d

If you are not able to attend the session, you can request a recording after June 5, 2025 by emailing Leah Patterson, Administrative Assistant at leah.patterson@toronto.ca

Note To Current City of Toronto Employees

City of Toronto employees are eligible to apply for the posted job opportunity, but cannot hold two different jobs. To be considered for this job posting, you must indicate that you are a "Current City of Toronto employee" on the on-line application form, and provide your "Employee Number".

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The City is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a workplace culture of inclusiveness that reflects the diverse residents that we serve. Learn more about the City’s commitment to employment equity.

Accommodation

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