Corporate Facility Portfolio Planner Full-time Job
Feb 6th, 2024 at 12:45 Management Calgary 122 views Reference: 4484Job Details
As the Corporate Facility Portfolio Planner, you are the first in the value chain of planning facilities for The City and delivering viable solutions to meeting your client's requirements. You will be responsible for managing facility planning projects from start to finish, including gathering requirements, developing portfolio level solutions, defining programs and project, facilitating approvals, and delivering in the context of long-term objectives for the facility portfolio. Primary duties include:
- Relationship Management with key clients and facilitating cross corporate teams in gathering and understanding facility requirements and gaining consensus.
- Manage facility planning projects from start to finish including: developing scopes of work, charters, program and project plans cost estimates, pro formas, benefits analysis, capital and operating business cases, presentations, and reports.
- Lead and manage consultants, budget, public engagement, governance, and workshops.
- Conduct analyses on the City's facility portfolio including spatial, building, financial and service demand analysis.
- Develop portfolio and program plans, including real estate optimization strategies, feasibility analysis, and master plans.
- Facilitate the onboarding and offboarding of facilities from The City's portfolio.
- Facilitate moving facility solutions through internal decision-making processes and Council including delivering presentations, writing reports, and presenting recommendations.
- Lead continuous improvement activities to support improvement to the corporate portfolio management approach including developing policies, frameworks, strategies, processes, and tools to enable consistent execution of work and processes.
- Maintain a client focus, with corporate goals in mind, while tackling a wide variety of problem and issue areas in finance, planning, political, legal and regulatory, engineering, development and service provision.
Qualifications
- A degree in Planning, Architecture, Engineering, Business or related field with at least 8 years of experience in Facility Project Development, Urban Planning, Architecture and/or project pre-design and feasibility analysis is required;
- OR a Master's Degree in the above fields with 5 years of experience in Facility Project Development, Urban Planning, Architecture and/or project pre-design and feasibility analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project) is essential.
- Experience in a municipal, government or non-profit environment is preferred.
- A professional designation in any of following fields is considered an asset: Planning, Facility Management, Project, Program or Portfolio Management, Architecture, Corporate Real Estate, Change Management, or Engineering.
- Working knowledge of ArcGIS, Integrated Workplace Management Systems (such as Archibus), relational databases is considered an asset.
- Success in this position requires the ability to think strategically, solve complex problems, and execute within an ambiguous environment.
- The ideal candidate has demonstrated skills and experience in relationship management, political acumen and well-developed skills in communicating to all levels of the organization.
Pre-employment Requirements
- Successful applicants must provide proof of qualifications.
Company Description
Calgary, a cosmopolitan Alberta city with numerous skyscrapers, owes its rapid growth to its status as the centre of Canadas oil industry. However, its still steeped in the western culture that earned it the nickname Cowtown, evident in the Calgary Stampede, its massive July rodeo and festival that grew out of the farming exhibitions once presented here.
