City of Toronto

COMMITTEE/COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR

City of Toronto • $105K — $146K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Significant experience advising and supporting governmental decision-making bodies
  • Proven leadership in hiring, training, and managing teams
  • Strong background in meeting management and procedural compliance
  • Excellent communication skills for public and internal relations
  • Deep understanding of legislative frameworks and municipal by-laws

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team to provide meeting management services for the Council
  • Prepare and publish meeting agendas, decisions, and official records
  • Offer procedural advice to elected officials and staff members
  • Ensure compliance of legislative meeting records and City by-laws
  • Manage multi-stakeholder operations and coordinate workloads effectively

Benefits

  • Work in a central location at City Hall in Toronto
  • Engage in a role with direct impact on municipal governance
  • Opportunities to lead technological changes and improvements
  • Experience collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders
  • Eligibility for future permanent positions and career growth
Full Job Description
  • Job ID: 65218
  • Job Category: Governmental Affairs
  • Division & Section: City Clerk's, City Clerk's Secretariat
  • Work Location: CITY HALL, 100 Queen Street W. Toronto, ON
  • Job Type & Duration: 1 Full-Time Temporary (12 month) Vacancy
  • Salary Range: $105,214.00 - $146,191.00
  • Shift Information: Monday to Friday, 35 Hours per Week
  • Affiliation: Non-Union
  • Qualified List will be established to fill permanent and temporary positions.
  • Number of Positions Open: 1
  • Posting Period: 23-Sept-2026 to 7-Oct-2026

Job Description

As Committee/Council Administrator, you'll play a key role within the Secretariat by providing leadership to a team responsible for planning and delivering meeting management services to Council and its Committees and Boards. This includes the preparation, review and publishing of agendas, decisions, minutes, by-laws and correspondence, using a range of applications and digital tools; providing motion drafting assistance and procedural advice to elected and appointed officials and staff at all levels of the organization; ensuring that meetings and the City's official legislative meeting records are open and meet legislated requirements; ensuring the integrity of Council's decision-making process; maintaining the City's municipal code and by-laws in accordance with relevant corporate and statutory requirements; and compiling records for City and other tribunals, such as the Ontario Land Tribunal, ensuring compliance with tribunal rules and directions. Ensures that the duties of the City Clerk, as set out in the Planning Act and the Heritage Act, are carried out in accordance with statutory requirements and Council direction. Responsible for approving and reconciling invoices to ensure expenditures are correctly documented and recovered.

Key Qualifications:

With considerable experience in providing advice, guidance and support on policies, legislation and procedural processes to a decision-making body such as a government, a board of directors or a not-for-profit organization, you will advise Council and Committee members, City and Agency staff, and the public on Council's meeting procedures, policies, precedents and legislation; and brief Council, Committee, and Agency Chairs and senior City staff on Council and Committee issues. You are an excellent problem-solver with the demonstrated ability to interpret, and communicate about, legislative documents and to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner.

This role calls for considerable experience in leading teams. You have experience hiring, training, and supervising staff and managing performance, and are able to promote effective teamwork, develop staff, provide day-to-day work direction and handle employee and labour relations issues and grievances. You have experience in leading and managing change, including the implementation of technological change, and will play a role in developing and implementing the City Clerk's Office's policies and procedures.

You have experience in meeting management processes, which may include planning and managing meetings, preparing agendas, and accurately recording motions and decisions. As a champion of public participation, you'll safeguard the public's right to notice and providing input about decision-making.

A collaborative and effective communicator, you'll manage relationships and confidently represent the City Clerk's Office on interdivisional teams, projects and initiatives. You will research, and respond to inquiries from elected and appointed officials, the public, staff and the media on Council and Committee matters, draft reports to Committee and Council on legislative and administrative matters, and promote a corporate understanding of City Council's process and the City Clerk's mandate and services.

Your understanding of the City's administrative and governance structure and processes, and your ability to effectively communicate with elected and appointed officials, the public and the media are equally important, along with the ability to develop and deliver presentations and to write in clear and plain language in reports and correspondence.

You have experience in managing multi-stakeholder customer service operations. In the fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment in which the City Clerk's Office operates, you'll make full use of your ability to coordinate and manage workloads, deal with conflicting demands, and concentrate on work requirements under frequent pressure situations to consistently meet competing deadlines.

You have a strong understanding of the legislative and procedural frameworks in which the City Clerk's Office operates and knowledge of municipal by-laws and provincial legislation, including, but not limited to, the City of Toronto Act, 2006; the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act; the Ontario Heritage Act, 1990, the Planning Act, 1990, Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 27, Council Procedures; Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 190, Polling and Notification; Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 162, Notice, Public; the Marriage Act; the Vital Statistics Act; the Assessment Act; and the Liquor Licence Act. You're also familiar with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, and are able to exercise independent judgment and discretion in dealing with confidential matters under relevant legislation such as the City of Toronto Act and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

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