Senior business strategy advisor guiding Desjardins transformation initiatives and strategic decision - making. Developing policies, recommendations, and complex cross - sector business solutions.
About the role
- Data Advisor advancing GMF’s Canadian municipal sustainability funding through dashboards, data systems, and program evaluation. Supporting risk monitoring, information systems, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Liaise with GMF teams to produce program dashboards and reports using Power BI, CRM, and GLMS
- Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of program data
- Create visual representations of program data and results, including graphs, charts, and maps
- Develop, update, and maintain data collection and analysis tools
- Manage and execute data extraction requests from CRM, GLMS, and related business systems
- Validate and prepare data for operational, reporting, and stakeholder requirements
- Identify, develop, optimize, and implement data management and reporting best practices and business processes
- Support evidence-based, data-informed risk monitoring and management at program and portfolio levels
- Support Programs leadership and liaise with the Information Systems team on department priorities and system change requests
- Help program design leads follow consistent information systems processes for new program launches and system enhancements
- Translate business needs into technical requirements and support consistent process and standards implementation
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives
- Conduct research and analysis related to program design, performance management, and improvement
- Support working groups, information management, and stakeholder coordination
- Support development and production of French content as needed
- Promote collaboration, information sharing, and knowledge brokering
- Support development and improvement of GMF funding offers and their integration with GMF operations
- Participate in working groups and design workshops or consultations as assigned
Requirements
- Post-secondary education in a related field (public or business administration, economics, data science, project management, etc.)
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in conducting research, data management and/or analysis, project management, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and developing written materials for a professional audience
- Strong knowledge of business support processes and tools
- Advanced data manipulation and visualization skills using Microsoft Excel and Power BI
- Experience with Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft PowerPoint, customer-relationship management software, and database management
- Demonstrated experience with storytelling and visualization techniques using Excel, Power BI, Microsoft CRM, and related tools
- Professional, academic, and/or lived experience in monitoring, evaluation, and organizational learning; funding program design and operations; or program reporting and performance management
- Ability to understand, communicate, and contribute to technical content
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent research and project coordination skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- Ability to communicate fluently in written and verbal English
- French fluency is a strong asset
- Must live within 80 km of downtown Ottawa, unless otherwise specified
- Must be authorized to work in Canada
- Assets: experience in stakeholder engagement, equity principles, lean methodologies/continuous improvement, project management, design thinking, meeting leadership, presentations/trainings, municipal government structures, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), distributed computing frameworks (Spark), SQL, Python, TextBlob, scikit-learn, and DAX
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements that support productivity and collaboration
- Summer schedule (July 1 to Labour Day): 7-hour workdays
- Fridays off, aligned with team and operational needs
- Ongoing commitment to employee development
- Comprehensive range of employee benefits and services designed to support employee wellbeing and development
- Modern office space in Ottawa’s ByWard Market and downtown core
- Opportunities to travel across Canada, where applicable
- Accommodations available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process
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