Are you looking for a leadership role where you can shape the future of project delivery, corporate planning, and organizational performance? Can you see yourself leading enterprise-wide planning, portfolio governance, and project controls to support strategic decision-making and long-term success? If you answered yes, this may be the job for you. Our Chalk River location is looking for a Deputy Vice President, Project Controls & Corporate Planning (PCCP) to provide strategic leadership for enterprise project controls, corporate planning, portfolio governance, and performance management.

What you will be doing

- Enterprise Planning & Strategy
- Leading integrated annual, multi-year, and long-range enterprise planning.
- Supporting the development of the organization's 10-Year Strategy and Plan of Work.
- Translating enterprise strategy into executable plans, resource requirements, and performance measures.
- Aligning corporate priorities with available funding, resource capacity, and delivery commitments.
- Advising executive leadership through strategic analysis and recommendations.

- Annual Program of Work & Budget (APWB)

- Leading the development, integration, critical review, and consolidation of the APWB.
- Ensuring alignment across strategic commitments, budgets, schedules, milestones, and resource forecasts.
- Advising executive leadership on funding allocations and investment priorities.
- Assessing the strategic and delivery implications of emerging opportunities, scope changes, and funding adjustments.
- Supporting strategic negotiations and engagement with key external stakeholders on planning and funding requirements.





- Project Controls Leadership

- Providing enterprise leadership for:
- Cost management
- Schedule management
- Risk management
- Change control
- Performance measurement
- Portfolio reporting

- Setting enterprise standards and governance expectations for project controls, supported by consistent procedures and tools.
- Driving continuous improvement in enterprise project controls processes and capabilities.
- Ensuring accurate, timely, and reliable performance information informs executive decision-making.

- Portfolio Governance & Prioritization

- Leading enterprise portfolio prioritization and optimization.
- Advising executive governance bodies on resource allocation and prioritization.
- Facilitating enterprise-wide evaluation of competing demands across Capital, Operations, Infrastructure, and Strategic Initiatives.
- Developing strategic recommendations on:
- Capital investments
- Infrastructure renewal
- Capability retention
- Resource allocation
- Scope prioritization
- Strategic alternatives

- Ensuring portfolio decisions balance affordability, risk, regulatory requirements, organizational objectives, and long-term sustainability.

- Capital Planning & Investment Management





- Supporting the development of long-term capital investment strategies aligned with enterprise objectives.
- Overseeing integrated enterprise capital planning.
- Evaluating the strategic merits of business cases, investment proposals, and major project initiatives.
- Ensuring capital investments align with enterprise priorities and available funding.
- Supporting the resolution of affordability challenges, funding gaps, and competing investment needs.

- Corporate Performance & Executive Reporting

- Leading the development of executive dashboards, performance reports, and strategic planning updates to inform enterprise decisions.
- Monitoring enterprise performance against approved commitments and strategic objectives.
- Identifying emerging risks, issues, and opportunities affecting enterprise delivery.
- Presenting performance insights and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and governance committees.

- Resource Planning & Organizational Analysis

- Overseeing enterprise resource forecasting and the integration of workforce and corporate planning.
- Ensuring enterprise plans reflect realistic workforce capacity assessments.
- Advising executive leadership on organizational resource requirements.
- Evaluating the implications of workforce constraints for planned delivery and strategic objectives.

- Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

- Education
- An undergraduate degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or Economics (or international equivalent).
- Preferably MBA and/or C.P.A (or international equivalent).

- Experi

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