Senior Strategic Business Planner Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 52436)

Description

Want to make an impact on Edmonton's future? Are you passionate about shaping city governance through policy development, business and performance planning? We're looking for a Senior Strategic Business Planner to join our Business Analytics and Performance team in the Department Strategy Section of Community Services.

You'll work directly with leaders to develop, implement, and refine policies that align with the City's Strategic Planning Framework. Your expertise will ensure policies, business plans, budgets, performance metrics, and risk strategies contribute to the success of Community Services. Your goal? To help the department succeed in a respectful, inclusive, and service-oriented way, while embodying our City's Cultural Commitments: Safe, Helpful, Accountable, Integrated, and Excellent.

 What will you do?

• Providing input into the development of corporate-wide policy methodologies, templates, and tools
• Designing and facilitating strategic discussions to translate corporate direction into guiding policies and actionable plans
• Developing and implementing business planning, policy, performance, budget, and risk management processes for the department
• Leading the review of policies within the department
• Monitor and prepare reports on policy implementation and effectiveness, providing data-driven insights to decision-makers
• Developing strategies that increase employee understanding of policy frameworks and ensuring they contribute to decision-making
• Reviewing and analyzing branch and department initiatives, plans, and existing policies, providing strategic advice and recommendations for policy improvement
• Coordinating risk management by creating and updating risk registers, developing evaluation tools, and providing reports
• Designing and implementing performance measurement aligned with both corporate and departmental needs
• Helping leadership build employee awareness of the Strategic Planning Framework and enable data-driven decision-making
• Managing projects using established protocols and project management techniques
• Other duties as assigned