Strategic Planning Analyst III - Program Manager, Portfolio Management and Governance

Edmonton; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Edmonton Police Service is seeking a highly effective Manager to lead enterprise intake, prioritization, and governance across the Service. You will oversee the portfolio framework, ensuring disciplined, transparent, and value-based decision making.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and delivery and requires collaboration, systems thinking, and execution discipline. You will lead cross-functional teams, develop prioritization methods, models, and sequencing logic, and

Qualifications

• University degree in business, public administration, political science, or related discipline.
• 7+ years in strategic/operational planning, performance measures, budgeting, policy and leadership.
• PMP/PfMP/PRINCE2 or similar considered an asset.
• Experience designing enterprise portfolio processes ( intake, prioritization, sequencing, governance ).
• Experience building portfolio scenarios and capacity/demand models for senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise intake, triage, prioritization, and sequencing for EPS initiatives.
• Develop portfolio prioritization methods, scoring, and sequencing logic.
• Lead portfolio scenario development considering capacity, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Approve portfolio analyses and ensure consistency with governance.
• Translate information into integrated portfolio views for senior leadership.

Skills

Portfolio management

Governance

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

University degree in business/public administration

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

Smartsheet

SharePoint

Power BI

Job description

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) has a mission to be relentless on crime and be a leading partner in building community safety. In service of this, the Enterprise Investment Branch has been created to ensure alignment of strategy and implementation. The Branch requires a highly effective Manager to lead the enterprise intake, prioritization, and governance processes that enable disciplined, transparent, and value-based decision making across the Service.

The primary focus of this position is to lead the execution and continuous improvement of the enterprise portfolio framework inclusive of intake, prioritization, sequencing, and governance. This work sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and delivery, requiring strong collaboration, systems thinking, and disciplined execution. This role plays a critical part in structuring enterprise decisions, enabling leadership alignment, and ensuring that the organization is focused on the highest value work. We have a lot to do, and we want you to have fun doing the following:

• Lead the enterprise intake, triage, prioritization, and sequencing processes for EPS initiatives, ensuring consistent application of corporate criteria, governance requirements, and strategic priorities.
• Develop and apply enterprise portfolio prioritization methods, scoring approaches, scenario models, and sequencing logic to support transparent and defensible investment and resource allocation decisions.
• Lead the development and analysis of portfolio scenarios that reflect capacity constraints, strategic alignment, risks, dependencies, interdependencies, sequencing requirements, and trade-offs.
• Assign, oversee, and approve portfolio analysis completed by team members, ensuring quality, consistency, comparability, and alignment with enterprise frameworks and governance needs.
• Translate complex and evolving information into integrated portfolio views, options, and recommendations that enable senior leadership to understand choices and implications.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise governance processes that support intake, prioritization, sequencing, portfolio review, and decision-making.
• Ensure governance materials are decision-ready by structuring options, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, and implications in a manner that enables senior leadership to make informed enterprise decisions.
• Lead or facilitate governance working sessions and decision-preparation meetings with multidisciplinary stakeholders to clarify requirements, validate readiness, and resolve analytical issues before formal governance forums.
• Develop and maintain decision logs, action tracking, governance readiness criteria, and escalation practices that support transparency, consistency, and accountability in enterprise decisions.
• Lead enterprise portfolio reporting and insights, including dashboards, summaries, roadmaps, portfolio views, risk analysis, scenario analysis, and materials that support executive understanding of portfolio status and trade-offs.
• Develop enterprise capacity and demand models that inform realistic prioritization, sequencing, and investment planning across operational and capital portfolios.
• Analyze portfolio information to identify capacity constraints, emerging risks, misalignment, performance issues, dependencies, and opportunities for re-sequencing or resource reallocation.
• Lead enterprise portfolio review cycles, including identification of initiatives requiring continuation, adjustment, deferral, termination, or reallocation based on value, risk, capacity, and strategic alignment.
• Provide recommendations to the Director and senior leadership on portfolio health, governance readiness, sequencing, and enterprise-level adjustments required to improve execution feasibility and organizational outcomes.
• Directly supervise, train, coach, and develop a team of professional analyst staff responsible for intake coordination, portfolio analytics, governance support, capacity analysis, and portfolio reporting.
• Assign, prioritize, monitor, and approve work to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of portfolio analysis, governance materials, scenarios, and reporting.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and working groups from different business lines to develop integrated portfolio processes, governance approaches, and enterprise decision support products.
• Review and validate team outputs to ensure accuracy, consistency, methodological rigor, and alignment with enterprise standards, frameworks, and governance requirements.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, performance planning, performance evaluation, employee development, and timely resolution of performance or quality concerns in accordance with EPS and City processes.

Qualifications

• A university degree in business administration, public administration, political science, or a discipline as required by area of specialization. (A graduate level degree in one of these disciplines is preferred).
• A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in a combination of: strategic/operational business planning, working with corporate performance measures and budgets, policy development and leadership and project management experience. Experience working within a public sector environment would be an asset. Positions with supervisory responsibilities must have two (2) years progressively responsible supervisory experience.
• Professional or technical designations such as PMP or CPA or similar would be considered an asset.
• Demonstrated experience, within the above, designing or operating enterprise portfolio processes such as intake, prioritization, sequencing and governance.
• Experience building portfolio scenarios or capacity and demand models and presenting trade-offs to senior leaders.
• Experience developing frameworks or standards where no formal guidelines exist.
• Experience leading professional staff and cross-functional groups in a matrix environment.
• Experience in change management and in facilitating governance, executive or cross-functional working sessions.
• Program or portfolio management certification such as PgMP, PfMP or PRINCE2 is an asset. Change management or continuous improvement certification is an asset.
• Experience with Smartsheet, SharePoint and Power BI is an asset.
• Indigenous Awareness training and GBA+ is an asset.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint.

Hours of Work

33.75 hours per week, Monday - Friday. Hours of work may be subject to the terms and conditions of variable hours of work program and will be mostly at the TD tower in Downtown Edmonton at 10088-102 Avenue but may require work at other Edmonton Police Service Facilities as required.

Salary Range

21M, Salary Grade: 032, $54.15 - $69.11 (Hourly); $3,655.50 - $4,664.90 (Bi‑Weekly); $95,407.57 - $121,754.54 (Annually). The rates quoted are in accordance with a collective agreement between the Union and the City of Edmonton.

General

• The City of Edmonton thanks applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Candidates considered for the position will be contacted.
• We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified individuals.
• Please include a current resume and cover letter with your online application.
• Applicants may be tested.
• As part of your pre‑hire screening, you will be required to complete an Enhanced Security Clearance. Should you accept employment with the Edmonton Police Service you acknowledge and agree to participate in future Enhanced Security Re‑Clearances at schedule intervals or in any other circumstances, exigent or otherwise as required by Human Resources Division.

Applicants who have completed post secondary education outside of Canada are encouraged to obtain an assessment of their credentials through the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS), https://www.alberta.ca/international-qualifications-assessment.aspx or another recognized Canadian credential evaluation service. For a list of designated evaluators, please visit the Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada, https://canalliance.org/en/default.html. Including an IQAS certificate or other credential assessment certificate from a recognized Canadian credential evaluation service with your application is recommended to support the evaluation of the applicant’s educational qualifications.

The Province of Alberta is a party to the Federal Agreement on Internal Trade, the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility with British Columbia and the New West Partnership Trade Agreement with British Columbia and Saskatchewan. All of these agreements promote labour mobility between the Provinces. Applicants may obtain information regarding recognition of extra provincial credentials at www.newwestpartnershiptrade.ca.

Edmonton rests in the heart of Treaty Six territory in Alberta and the homelands of the Metis Nation.

HR Technician: KJ