# Project Manager, Municipal Planning

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Toronto, ON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $97,400 – $134,100
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and manage policy planning projects for municipal clients while playing a key role in growing our Municipal Planning Practice.

The successful candidate will bring demonstrated expertise in municipal policy planning, providing expert advice and innovative, implementable solutions to a range of municipal clients.

**Your Impact**

- Leading and managing complex policy planning projects from initiation through to Council adoption, including establishing a land use vision, integrating technical studies, and developing implementing policies and regulations

- Leading large, multi-disciplinary project teams, including urban designers, transportation planners, engineers, ecologists, and other technical specialists

- Managing project scope, schedule, budget, and quality in close coordination with our clients

- Driving business development to grow our Municipal Planning Practice, including identifying opportunities, building and maintaining client relationships, and leading proposals

- Providing senior technical direction on land use policy, regulatory drafting, mapping, and implementation strategies, including testing proposed standards against real-world development scenarios

- Balancing competing interests among landowners, developers, residents, agencies, and Council to build consensus and advance practical solutions

- Mentoring and developing junior and intermediate planners

- Organizing and participating in all sizes of stakeholder meetings and public consultation processes

- Directing research and presentation of planning analyses

**The Skills That Set You Apart**

- University degree in Planning;

- Registered Professional Planner in the Province of Ontario;

- A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in a municipal or consulting environment;

- Demonstrated experience preparing land use policy and regulatory frameworks, including writing clear, defensible policy and regulatory language that conforms to provincial and upper-tier direction;

- Strong public consultation experience;

- Proven Project Management experience with complex municipal policy planning projects comprised of multi-disciplinary teams, including managing scope, schedule, and budget;

- A track record of successful business development, including proposal writing, client relationship management, and securing new work with municipal clients;

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, query, analyze, and effectively communicate information;

- Experience reviewing and responding to comments from municipalities and other approval authorities;

- Experience presenting and defending planning recommendations before Council and the Ontario Land Tribunal;

- Excellent understanding of planning legislation, provincial planning policy, and approvals processes in the Province of Ontario;

- Ability to synthesize technical inputs (e.g., servicing, transportation, natural heritage, and urban design) into coherent land use strategies, and to translate policy direction into implementable regulations, standards, and mapping;

- Highly motivated, organized, and collaborative leader committed to upholding our reputation for delivering high-quality service;

- An established network within the Ontario municipal sector and a strong professional reputation;

- Excellent written and oral communication and time management skills; and

- Valid Ontario Driver’s License

**Compensation**

- MB & ON: $97,400 – $134,100

## Skills

### Required
- Planning
- Project Management
- Public Consultation
- Business Development
- Analytical Skills
- Communication Skills
- Ontario Land Tribunal
- Planning Legislation

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