Business Planner

Environment, Conservation and Parks | Environnement, Protection de la nature et Parcs; Canada; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontario Public Service in Orillia seeks a Business Planner to coordinate strategic planning and reporting across the organization, collaborating with leaders to advance priorities and improve performance.

The role focuses on environmental scanning, linking strategies to indicators, and facilitating planning activities. Strong communication and ability to pass security checks are required.

Qualifications

• Mandatory requirement: Ability to pass an OPP background/security investigation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate strategic and business planning across the organization.
• Link organizational strategies to program outcomes and performance indicators.
• Conduct environmental scans and identify emerging trends, benchmarks, and leading practices.
• Recommend process improvements and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate planning sessions, workshops, and projects supporting business planning activities.
• Prepare reports, briefing notes, and submissions on planning-related issues and initiatives.

Job description

Apply By:Monday, November 2, 2026 11:59 pm EST

Join a team that helps shape organizational priorities and drive continuous improvement across the OPP.

As a Business Planner, you will collaborate with leaders and stakeholders across the province to coordinate strategic planning and reporting activities. Through research, analysis, facilitation, and consultation, you will help advance organizational priorities and identify opportunities for improvement.

As an integral part of the team, you will be expected to work out of 777 Memorial Avenue, Orillia five (5) days a week.

About Us:

The Strategy Management Unit directly supports the organization's executive and senior command in the development, implementation, measurement and reporting of strategic priorities. Direct support is also provided to the bureau, region and detachment command in the development, implementation, measurement and reporting of action plan priorities. We are responsible for adjunct services including facilitation and project management which comprise the organizational planning framework.

To learn more about the Ontario Provincial Police, visit OPP.ca

About the job

In this role, you will:

• Support the OPP in achieving its goals and objectives by coordinating and facilitating strategic and business planning across the organization.
• Link organizational strategies to program outcomes and performance indicators.
• Conduct environmental scans and identify emerging trends, benchmarks, and leading practices.
• Recommend process improvements and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate planning sessions, workshops, and projects supporting business planning activities.
• Prepare reports, briefing notes, and submissions on planning-related issues and initiatives.

What you bring to the team

Mandatory requirements

• Ability to pass an OPP background/ security investigation.

Strategic Planning, Research & Environmental Scanning

• Knowledge of research and analytical methods and techniques and government planning processes to conduct and facilitate research and analysis.
• Knowledge of current and emerging trends in environmental scanning to conduct ongoing environmental scanning and develop benchmarks and best practices.
• Knowledge of performance measures and performance indicators to support evidence-based planning and decision-making.
• Planning, organizing and coordinating skills to support the development of business plans.

Business Analysis & Problem Solving

• Organizational, analytical and program management skills to support bureau managers and OPP executives in optimizing business planning effectiveness and efficiency.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify issues, assess impacts and develop effective recommendations and solutions.
• Ability to analyze complex information, identify trends and provide strategic advice to support decision-making.

Project & Program Management

• Knowledge of project management tools, methodologies and techniques.
• Ability to manage projects and initiatives to achieve desired outcomes and deliver results.
• Program management skills to support planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting activities.

Stakeholder Engagement, Relationship Management & Leadership

• Ability to build, manage and sustain respectful relationships and partnerships to promote alignment, collaboration and efficiency.
• Consultation, advisory and leadership skills to influence and support managers, executives and stakeholders.
• Ability to negotiate, mediate and resolve disputes while fostering cooperative and mutually satisfactory outcomes.
• Facilitation skills to engage stakeholders and support planning and project initiatives.

Communication & Business Writing

• Written communication skills to prepare professional correspondence, reports, briefing notes and edit business plan submissions.
• Oral communication skills to clearly articulate recommendations, business planning approaches and project management advice to senior staff and management.
• Ability to facilitate meetings, deliver presentations and respond effectively to inquiries.

Don't meet every qualification?

If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!

How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility

We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.

Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

• diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• accessibility
• Anti-Racism Policy

• 1 English Temporary, duration up to 12 months, 777 Memorial Ave, Orillia, Central Region, Criminal Record and Judicial Matters Check (Fingerprint Based)
• About security checks:
  A criminal or other federal offence record does not automatically disqualify you from the position. We consider each situation based on the position's responsibilities.
  If a check is needed and you've lived outside of Canada in the past 5 years for 6 or more months in a row, or if you are not a Canadian resident, you'll need to provide an out-of-country police clearance certificate from the country you lived in.
  Employment screening checks are only reviewed and evaluated by the Transition and Security Office, which also maintains them and keeps them strictly confidential.
• The information that you provide for the purpose of this competition and the results from this competition may be used to fill other positions. These positions may be of various tenures including short-term assignments. Your information and the results from this competition will be retained for the purpose of filling vacancies in accordance with the applicable collective agreement or policy provisions.
• Customize your cover letter and resume to the qualifications listed on the job ad.Using concrete examples, you must show how you demonstrated the requirements forthis job. We rely on the information you provide to us.
• OPS employees are required to quote their WIN EMPLOYEE ID number when applying.
• If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in therecruitment process, please ContactUs to provide your contact information. Recruitment services team willcontact you within 48 hours.

Language requirements and assessment:
All external Ontario Public Service (OPS) job ads are posted in English and French. Check the "position(s) language" section at the top of each job ad for the language requirements. For all roles, candidates are assessed in English, the business language of the OPS. If the position is bilingual (English/French), you'll also need to pass a French-language proficiency test.