Project Manager: CECCS

Date Posted: 02/23/2024
Req ID: 36118
Faculty/Division: Asst VP - Operations & Services
Department: Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability (CECCS)
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00044815

Description:

About us:

The President’s Advisory Committee on the Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability (CECCS) was created in 2017 with the following overall goals: to make sustainability a key component of the University of Toronto (U of T) identity, and to coordinate disparate sustainability activities across the three campuses. Over the last four years, CECCS has identified, facilitated, supported, enabled and promoted sustainability initiatives across all three campuses by leveraging individual campus identities, fostering a sense of common purpose, and bringing together existing sustainability networks and connections at U of T and in the community.

Your opportunity:

This position will be working under the supervision the Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability (CECCS) Secretariat Director. This position works with external stakeholders and internally - with units across the University with respect to the agendas of the Operations, and Student Leadership Subcommittees and secretariat-led engagement and partnerships.

The Project Manager leads and advances projects mandated through the CECCS, Secretariat and relevant Subcommittees, including: developing project scope and building stakeholder relationships and managing expectations; conducting research; supervising work study students and providing recommendations to the Subcommittee Chairs on ways of meeting the agendas. The Project Manager provides strategic advice to units across the University on strategies for dealing with specific issues and gathers information from colleagues across the University related to the goals of the CECCS and U of T and partner contribution to sustainability, including through student experience. The Project Manager collects, reviews, analyzes, interprets and summarizes information/data and prepares reports and proposals including charts, infographics and visual presentations, contributions to the website, newsletter and annual report.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing overall project design
• Developing charter, scope, resources and schedule for project(s)
• Building and strengthening relationships with stakeholders and partners of strategic importance
• Reviewing and assessing requirements needed to meet project timelines
• Checking that assigned work completed meets expected standards
• Developing and implementing communications plans that support strategic objectives 
• Directing a small group in a limited area, including responsibility for scheduling and/or workflow

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
• Six to seven years related experience
• Project Management experience

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Achievement oriented
• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Organized
• Proactive

Note: The contract is expected to begin on May 1, 2024 and has a term contract length of 18 months.

Closing Date: 03/09/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Term
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 15 -- $93,752 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $119,892. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Administrative / Managerial
Recruiter: Lucy Katehos

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.