New Value Solutions, a national IT consulting company, is seeking a Policy Analyst to support a major policy modernization initiative. The successful candidate will lead the completion of outstanding policy development activities and support policies through research, consultation, review, approval, implementation planning, and project closeout.
Responsibilities:
- Review existing policy frameworks, inventories, governance models, templates, draft policies, dashboards, decision logs, and project plans.
- Confirm the status, scope, dependencies, approval requirements, and priorities of outstanding policies, standards, procedures, guidelines, and governance documents.
- Develop and maintain detailed work plans, including deliverables, consultations, decisions, dependencies, and timelines.
- Identify policy gaps, duplication, inconsistencies, outdated requirements, and opportunities to consolidate or retire existing policy instruments.
- Conduct jurisdictional, legislative, regulatory, policy, and leading-practice research.
- Analyze operational, governance, privacy, security, information management, financial, legal, human resources, and service delivery implications.
- Draft, revise, and finalize policies, standards, procedures, guidelines, roles and responsibilities, definitions, compliance requirements, exception processes, and supporting materials.
- Ensure policy documents are clear, internally consistent, practical to implement, and aligned with established policy frameworks and templates.
- Plan and facilitate stakeholder interviews, workshops, working sessions, consultations, and document reviews.
- Analyze stakeholder feedback, competing requirements, risks, and policy issues and recommend practical resolutions.
- Coordinate policy review and approval processes, including quality assurance, document control, version management, records of decision, and required approvals.
- Prepare decision notes, briefing notes, presentations, approval packages, Treasury Board submission materials, and other executive documentation.
- Present policy analysis, options, recommendations, risks, and implementation considerations to senior leadership and governance groups.
- Develop implementation and communications plans, including key messages, responsibilities, training or awareness requirements, transition activities, and completion measures.
- Prepare supporting materials such as FAQs, guidance documents, checklists, templates, process maps, compliance tools, and presentations.
- Maintain project dashboards, schedules, action logs, risk and issue logs, decision logs, document registers, and progress reports.
- Provide regular status reporting on progress, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and project risks.
- Complete project handover documentation and knowledge transfer at the end of the assignment.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in policy analysis, policy development, policy modernization, drafting, review, and implementation.
- Experience conducting jurisdictional, legislative, regulatory, policy, and leading-practice research.
- Strong ability to assess policy implications across operational, governance, privacy, security, information management, financial, legal, human resources, and service delivery areas.
- Experience developing and refining policies, standards, procedures, guidelines, governance documents, and supporting implementation materials.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation experience, including interviews, workshops, working sessions, consultations, and document reviews.
- Experience coordinating policy governance, review, approval, document control, version management, and records of decision.
- Strong written communication skills, including experience preparing briefing notes, decision materials, executive presentations, approval packages, and other senior-level documentation.
- Ability to analyze competing requirements, identify risks and policy conflicts, and develop clear recommendations.
- Experience developing implementation and communications plans and supporting tools.
- Strong project planning and project control skills, including maintaining schedules, dashboards, action logs, risk and issue logs, decision logs, and progress reports.
- Strong analytical, organizational, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple policy deliverables, and meet established project deadlines.
- If you have the necessary expertise and are able to work in Canada, please submit your resume. While we thank all candidates in advance for their application, only those shortlisted will be contacted.
If you have the necessary expertise and are able to work in Canada, please submit your resume. While we thank all candidates in advance for their application, only those shortlisted will be contacted.
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