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
• Analyzes, synthesizes, and interprets strategic plan implementation information from multiple initiative teams to develop reports, forecasts, models, and recommendations; assess progress, dependencies, risks, funding assumptions, organizational impacts, and emerging issues.
• Analyzes and interprets strategic plan implementation information to identify trends, gaps, interdependencies, sequencing considerations, resource implications, and emerging risks, and develops insights that support planning, prioritization, and decision-making.
• 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
Consistently demonstrate CNO's 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
Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. the day before the closing date.
To be considered, applications must be submitted through CNO's recruitment portal, Workday. Unfortunately, CNO is unable to process applications received through other channels.
