As a Facility Portfolio Strategist, you will help shape how The City of Calgary plans, prioritizes, invests in, and manages its facility portfolio over the long term. You will work with business units and partners to understand service needs, assess portfolio-wide opportunities and risks, develop practical facility strategies and move priority initiatives through planning, approval, and investment decisions to ensure facilities support service delivery, community outcomes, and long-term value. Primary duties:
- Build strong relationships with clients, business units, and partners to understand facility needs and support decisions.
- Lead portfolio studies and planning assessments that identify service needs, risks, opportunities, trade-offs, and investment priorities.
- Develop long-range facility strategies that bring service requirements together into a clear corporate portfolio direction.
- Translate strategic facility needs into programs and projects, including scopes, charters, project plans, cost estimates, business cases, presentations, and reports.
- Lead consultants, budgets, engagement activities, workshops, and governance processes.
- Analyze facility, financial, spatial, building condition, and service-demand information to support sound portfolio decisions.
- Assess social, economic, demographic, environmental, and service trends to support resilient and future-ready facility planning.
- Prepare portfolio strategies and program plans, including real estate optimization, feasibility studies, and master plans.
- Strengthen partnerships across The City and with external partners to support coordinated planning and shared investment opportunities.
- Support decisions to add, change, repurpose, or remove facilities from The City's portfolio.
- Advance facility recommendations through internal approvals and Council processes.
- Improve corporate portfolio management practices, including policies, frameworks, processes, strategies, and tools.
- Ensure facility strategies support corporate objectives, city-building priorities, service outcomes, and long-term value.
- Apply sound judgment and a client-focused approach when working through complex financial, planning, political, legal, regulatory, engineering, development, and service-delivery issues.
Qualifications - A degree in Planning, Architecture, Engineering, Business or related field with at least 8 years of experience in Facility Project Development, Urban Planning, Architecture and/or project pre-design and feasibility analysis; OR
- A master's degree in the above fields with at least 5 years of experience in Facility Project Development, Urban Planning, Architecture and/or project pre-design and feasibility analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project) is essential.
- Experience in a municipal, government or non-profit environment is preferred.
- A professional designation in any of following fields is considered an asset: Planning, Facility Management, Project, Program or Portfolio Management, Architecture, Corporate Real Estate, Change Management, or Engineering.
- Success in this position requires the ability to think strategically, solve complex problems, and execute within an ambiguous environment.
- The successful candidate will have demonstrated skills and experience in relationship management, political acumen and well-developed skills in communicating to all levels of the organization.
Pre-employment Requirements - Applicants will be tested for appropriate skills.
- Successful applicants must provide proof of qualifications.
Workstyle - This position may be eligible to work from home for at least part of the time as one of several flexible work options available to City employees. These arrangements depend on the operational requirements of the role, employee suitability, and are subject to change based on operational needs and corporate direction.
