Deliverables:
The consultant will be expected to provide high-quality,
timely, and executive-ready deliverables, including but not limited to:
- Strategic analyses, advice, recommendations, and executive
briefing materials.
- Future-state implementation plans, transition plans,
roadmaps, and operationalization strategies.
- Strategic frameworks, options papers, discussion papers, and
straw-dog concepts.
- Executive readiness and leadership alignment materials.
- Governance frameworks, accountability models, and
decision-making structures.
- Facilitation plans, workshop design, meeting materials, and
session outputs.
- Strategic communications, presentations, speaking materials,
and executive messaging.
- Organizational capability-building and knowledge transfer
materials.
- Stakeholder engagement and change management strategies.
- Continuous improvement recommendations and implementation
support plans.
- Priority projects, initiatives, and special assignments as
directed by executive leadership.
- Program plans, integrated work plans, and implementation
tracking materials;
- Executive briefings, strategic analyses, issue notes,
presentations, and decision-support materials;
- Governance materials, including agendas, meeting summaries,
action logs, and executive discussion documents;
- Strategic planning and roadmap support materials;
- Stakeholder engagement and coordination materials;
- Risks, issues, dependency, and mitigation tracking
documentation;
- Performance monitoring and status reporting products;
- Environmental scans, jurisdictional research, and synthesis
reports;
- Executive-ready communications and presentation materials
aligned with Ministry standards.
- Deliverables will be developed in alignment with ministry
priorities and executive direction and will adapt to evolving organizational
needs, emerging priorities, and transformation requirements.
Requirements
Experience and Skill Set Requirements:
Skill Set Requirements:
Executive Strategic Advisory:
- Demonstrated experience serving as a trusted advisor to
senior executives, executive leadership teams, Assistant Deputy Ministers,
executives, or equivalent senior leaders.
- Demonstrated experience providing strategic advice and
support on complex organizational, operational, governance, and transformation
initiatives.
- Experience developing executive briefing materials, options
papers, strategic analyses, recommendations, discussion papers, and
executive-ready presentations.
- Experience identifying strategic opportunities, risks,
issues, and mitigation approaches to support executive decision-making.
- Experience supporting governance bodies, executive
committees, leadership forums, and decision-making structures.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating executive workshops,
planning sessions, retreats, and leadership discussions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including
preparing presentations, executive communications, speaking notes, briefing
notes, and strategic correspondence.
- Demonstrated political acuity, judgment, and ability to
operate effectively in complex stakeholder and executive environments.
- Experience providing executive support and strategic
capacity during periods of organizational change and transformation.
Organizational Transformation, Strategic Planning & Capacity Building Experience:
- Demonstrated
experience supporting organizational transformation, operating model
implementation, organizational design, or future-state initiatives.
- Experience
developing strategic plans, implementation roadmaps, transition plans, and
organizational development strategies.
- Experience
translating strategic vision and future-state concepts into actionable
implementation plans.
- Demonstrated
experience supporting leadership alignment, organizational readiness,
change management, and transformation activities.
- Experience
developing governance frameworks, accountability models, decision-making
structures, and operating approaches.
- Experience
applying leading practices and external perspectives to strengthen
organizational effectiveness and performance.
- Experience
building organizational capabilities through coaching, mentoring,
facilitation, advisory support, and knowledge transfer.
- Ability
to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and support
implementation of organizational enhancements.
- Experience
supporting implementation of new functions, capabilities, services, or
ways of working.
- Strong
understanding of organizational design, change management, strategic
planning, and transformation methodologies.
Stakeholder Engagement, Facilitation:
- Demonstrated
experience establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships and
partnerships across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Experience
working with government, healthcare, broader public sector, or similarly
complex stakeholder environments.
- Demonstrated
experience facilitating consensus-building and aligning diverse
stakeholder perspectives around strategic objectives.
- Experience
developing stakeholder engagement strategies, communications approaches,
and partnership models.
- Demonstrated
experience managing competing priorities, sensitive issues, and
stakeholder expectations.
- Experience
communicating across multiple functional areas and with both technical and
non-technical audiences.
- Strong
facilitation, presentation, and meeting leadership skills.
- Experience
influencing outcomes without direct authority.
- Demonstrated
ability to build trust, foster collaboration, and support cross-functional
alignment.
- Strong
interpersonal skills and proven ability to work effectively in team-based
environments.
