The Opportunity

What could TMU accomplish if its people, structures, and ways of working were designed for what the University needs next?

As the Project Director, Transformation and Organizational Effectiveness, you'll lead some of TMU's most complex, high-visibility and strategically important transformation initiatives using the Target Operating Model (TOM) Architecture helping the University translate vision into meaningful organizational change.

You'll partner with senior leaders to shape operating models, organizational structures, and workforce strategies that enable TMU to work more effectively, adapt to change, and deliver on its strategic priorities. You'll bring a combination of strategic thinking, organizational expertise, and strong project leadership to challenges that have an institution-wide impact.

You'll lead enterprise HR transformation and organizational effectiveness initiatives from strategy through implementation, navigating complexity across functions, stakeholders, and organizational boundaries. You'll establish the governance, frameworks, methodologies, and tools needed to bring structure to large-scale transformation while building the University's internal capability to sustain and advance this work over time.

As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you'll help translate broad strategic priorities into practical organizational solutions by asking the difficult questions, identifying opportunities for improvement, and helping leaders make informed decisions about how work, people, and resources should come together. You'll also lead cross-functional teams, manage resources and competing priorities, and create the conditions for successful and sustainable change.

This is an opportunity to help shape how one of Canada's leading universities works, evolves, and prepares for its future. Your work will extend beyond individual projects: you'll help build more effective structures, stronger organizational capabilities, and scalable ways of working that enable TMU to achieve more.

If you're energized by complex institutional challenges, thrive when working with senior leaders, and are motivated by the opportunity to turn strategy into lasting organizational impact, this is a chance to play a defining role in TMU's transformation journey.

Leadership Competencies

Leaders at TMU are required to demonstrate the following Leadership Competencies:

• Acts with Integrity: Demonstrates behaviors aligned with high ethical standards and personal integrity and acts in accordance with TMU values.
• Builds Relationships of Trust & Collaboration: Actively builds a culture of trust and fosters meaningful relationships.
• Leads Inclusively: Creates an inclusive environment where everyone is respected, recognized, empowered to achieve their potential, and valued for their differences.
• Demonstrates Organizational Acumen: Understands and respectfully navigates complex internal and external environments using sound judgment, diplomacy, and tact.
• Drives Vision & Results: Creates and implements a vision grounded in sound decision-making to achieve desired outcomes.

Qualifications
To help us learn more about you, please provide a cover letter and resume describing how you meet the following required qualifications:

• Completion of a Master's Degree, preferably in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or Organizational Psychology.
• At least twelve12 years of relevant work experience in management consulting (client facing) or internal Organization Design transformation projects, with a strong focus on organizational design, change management and full cycle project management
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale organizational design and transformation initiatives, including operating model design, workforce planning, and organizational restructuring.
• Experience working within complex, unionized and/or multi-stakeholder environments, preferably in the public sector, higher education, or similarly complex institutions.
• Strong people leadership experience, including coaching and developing high-performing teams and project resources.
• Demonstrated experience developing executive-level reports, presentations, and recommendations to support strategic decision-making.
• Experience facilitating senior leadership workshops, strategy sessions, and stakeholder engagement processes.
• Experience leading cross-functional project teams and managing complex transformation programs.
• Experience applying organizational design methodologies, change management frameworks, and process improvement approaches.
• Advanced project and program leadership skills, including planning, resource and budget management, and risk mitigation, with the ability to lead multiple complex initiatives concurrently.
• Strong strategic consulting capability, with the ability to influence decision-making and partner effectively across senior leadership and operational teams.
• Deep understanding of transformation, organizational design, and operating model development, including the ability to identify opportunities to enhance programs, processes, and service delivery.
• Strong digital and systems orientation, with the ability to leverage technology and data to design innovative models, tools, and ways of working that improve organizational effectiveness.

Additional Information (MAC)
Position Number 20005709 Reports To Executive Director, HR Strategy, Talent Management & Organizational Effectiveness Department Human Resources - Strategy and Governance Employee Group MAC Vacancy Type
Term

This is a current vacancy
Work Location Hybrid Start Date ASAP End Date 2 years from start date Hours of Work 36.25 Grade D71 Salary Scale $121,408 - $193,937 Hiring Salary Range $160,408 - $169,000 TA Specialist Claudiu Filimon Posting Date August 21, 2026 Application Close Date August 31, 2026

• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Applicants who do not meet all of the posted qualifications may, upon the University's sole discretion, be considered to fill a vacancy on an underfill basis.
• Candidates must have a demonstrated record of dependability/reliability and a commitment to maintain confidentiality.
• We encourage all First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples or Indigenous peoples of North America, to self-identify in their applications.
• As part of the selection process, candidates may be required to complete an occupational assessment.