Program Analyst, Strategic Plan

College of Nurses of Ontario; Toronto; On-site; CAD 108,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

College of Nurses of Ontario is seeking a Program Analyst to support Strategic Plan Operations. The role involves analyzing and reporting on plan implementation, coordinating budgeting inputs, and contributing to governance materials for leadership decision-making.

You will collect and validate information across initiatives, identify trends and risks, and help align plans with budget submissions. Strong analytics, communication, and collaboration across teams are essential to success in this

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in business management, public policy administration or other relevant areas.
• Relevant professional experience supporting program, project, portfolio, business planning, or strategic initiative implementation, including monitoring, reporting, and risk or dependency tracking.

Responsibilities

• Maintains budget planning inputs, coordinating information from initiative teams and funding assumptions.
• Supports strategic plan budgeting and funding analysis through high-level costing and alignment with implementation plans.
• Advances planning cycles by improving tools, templates, and governance inputs for Senior Leadership Team and Council reporting.
• Assesses organizational readiness, adoption considerations, and change impacts across strategic plan initiatives to identify risks and mitigation needs.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Communication

Problem Solving

Relationship Management

Education

Undergraduate degree in business management/public policy

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Title: Program Analyst, Strategic Plan Team: Strategic Plan Operations Reports to: Manager, Strategic Plan Operations Job Status: 1 Permanent Existing position vacancy Job Level: 6

I. JOB PURPOSE

Supports Strategic Plan Operations by providing analysis, reporting, and operational coordination that enable program and portfolio-level visibility of Strategic Plan implementation across the organization. Collects, validates, analyzes, and consolidates implementation information to identify trends, dependencies, risks, and implementation considerations, and develops insights that support planning, issue escalation, governance inputs, and leadership decision-making.

II. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

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• Maintains budget planning inputs, coordinating information from initiative teams, tracking funding assumptions, supporting high-level costing and funding estimates for proposed strategic initiatives, and supporting alignment between implementation plans, project/operational initiative planning, and budget submissions to support Strategic Plan budget planning and funding analysis.
• Advances strategic plan planning and reporting cycles by continuously improving related tools and products and synthesizing implementation information into governance materials and inputs for Senior Leadership Team and Council-level reporting.
• Supports Strategic Plan planning cycles by maintaining and continuously improving planning tools, templates, schedules, budget planning materials, and reporting products that enable consistent monitoring and follow-up across initiatives.
• Assesses organizational readiness, adoption considerations, and change impacts across strategic plan initiatives, identifying risks, gaps, dependencies, and mitigation considerations that may affect successful implementation and strategic plan outcomes.

III. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in business management, public policy administration or other relevant areas.
• Relevant professional experience supporting program, project, portfolio, business planning, or strategic initiative implementation, including monitoring, reporting, and risk or dependency tracking.

Organizational Competencies

• Innovation - Curiously cultivate new ideas with a desire to learn and a collective focus on the best outcome.
• Integrity - Conduct every interaction with fairness, honesty, and mutual respect.
• Collaboration - Work with the right people at the right time to make the best-informed decision.
• Well-being - Care for the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional needs of ourselves and others.

Job Competencies, Knowledge, Skills

• Analytical and Critical Thinking - uses the ability to synthesize complex information into meaningful reports and insights; analyzes and interprets information to identify themes, readiness considerations, organizational impacts, potential barriers and areas that may require attention or mitigation.
• Communication - uses effective communication skills to convey complex information in a clear and concise manner when creating reports for Council, Senior Leadership Team or Chief Officers that support organizational planning and decision-making; adjusts communication delivery and approach when difficulties with understanding arise; adapts messaging for different audiences; considers perspectives of others when expressing ideas.
• Problem Solving - identifies patterns and trends related to a problem; evaluates impacts, risks, obstacles and benefits before recommending a solution; recommendations relate to implementation planning such as reassessment of sequencing, additional coordination occur between affected teams.
• Relationship Management - builds and establishes collaborative working relationships with system partners when supporting Strategic Planning cycles or budget planning; provides coordination of information from the imperative lead, program manager, project teams and other business areas to get input and support on strategic imperatives, considers future objectives and needs.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Project, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Hiring Range: $108,073.00 - $114,845.00 Full Salary Range: $108,073.00 - $129,688.00

Our DEI Commitment

The College of Nurses of Ontario protects the public by promoting safe nursing practice. We strive to be diverse, inclusive, fair, equitable and accessible by addressing barriers and promoting dignity and respect for all.

Land Acknowledgement

The College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) operates on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of many Indigenous communities across Ontario which continue to be home to Indigenous peoples. CNO's office is in Toronto, on land that is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Our hiring process may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in screening applications.

About CNO

Our purpose is to protect the public by promoting safe nursing practice. Just like nurses who uphold CNO's standards every day, CNO staff are also accountable. Every day CNO staff initiate, innovate and lead new programs to strengthen patient safety in our health care system.