IT Portfolio Manager, Information Security & Governance

Toronto Community Housing; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 124,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Pension plan

Health and dental benefits

Family assistance program

Tuition reimbursement

Fitness membership discount

Job summary

Toronto Community Housing is seeking an IT Portfolio Manager, Information Security, to lead planning, coordination, governance support, and delivery of strategic technology initiatives across ITS. You will oversee a portfolio spanning delivery, governance, reporting, and vendor engagement, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives and operational priorities.

The role requires strong executive reporting, cross-functional collaboration, and deep experience in security or risk-focused

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, audit, compliance, or IT portfolio/project management.
• 3+ years leading cross-functional security or risk-related initiatives.
• Experience coordinating security assessments, audit remediation, policy and standards work, risk registers, and control improvement plans.
• Strong experience in executive reporting, stakeholder management, issue escalation, and governance facilitation across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with information security frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, CIS Controls.
• PfMP, PgMP, COBIT, NIST are preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain integrated portfolios, roadmaps, milestones, and delivery plans for assigned initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives by managing scope, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and actions.
• Maintain governance artifacts, dashboards, metrics, and reporting packages for leadership.
• Lead or coordinate enterprise initiatives, improvement portfolios, or change adoption efforts.
• Ensure portfolio records include schedule, risk, issue, action, decision, dependency, and financial data for oversight.

Skills

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Governance facilitation

Risk management

Security frameworks

Education

University degree in CS/IT/BA/PM

Job description

Toronto Community Housing is seeking an IT Portfolio Manager, Information Security, to lead planning, coordination, governance support, and delivery of strategic technology initiatives across ITS. You will oversee a portfolio spanning delivery, governance, reporting, and vendor engagement, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives and operational priorities.

The role requires strong executive reporting, cross-functional collaboration, and deep experience in security or risk-focused