Description:
1. Lead and manage WSIB EPMO Portfolio Governance practices that support the WSIB corporate processes for selecting, optimizing, prioritizing, and executing an enterprise program and project portfolio in line with the WSIB’s strategic and corporate business plans.
2. Lead and manage EPMO Portfolio Governance teams in defining, managing, and monitoring the processes, frameworks, and guidelines/standards (e.g., enterprise gating, enterprise change control, benefits realization) for making decisions, providing oversight, ensuring controls, and overseeing integration within portfolio components.
3. Provide ongoing support for WSIB portfolio governance meetings (e.g., portfolio governance committees/bodies) as well as reporting requirements (e.g., dashboards, option/strategic analyses, risk and issue logs, actions, decisions, etc.).
- Develop, manage, maintain and serve as a champion/coach/strategic advisor for the WSIB EPMO gating; change control; and benefits realization frameworks/processes (and supporting tools/templates/guidelines), in collaboration with portfolio components (e.g., programs, projects) and WSIB business areas.
- Develop, manage, and maintain evolving and dynamic portfolio governance intake, prioritization, decision, and escalation criteria/guidelines/thresholds in collaboration with portfolio governance committees/bodies.
- Help to set and manage the agenda for portfolio governance committees/bodies, including ensuring clarity on decisions and escalations requiring direction.
- Facilitate ongoing strategic portfolio planning and management, including developing, managing, and monitoring supporting portfolio integrations (e.g., collisions, dependencies, etc.) and capacity assessments/analyses (in collaboration with the strategic planning team as well as other key WSIB stakeholders).
- Support the identification, development, and implementation of portfolio optimization techniques.
- Act as first escalation point to help resolve conflicts, risks, and/or issues related to issues or changes in the corporate portfolio.
- Lead the EPMO portfolio reporting process including the development and maintenance of reports, in collaboration with the EPMO Portfolio Finance team and the EPMO Portfolio Delivery team.
- Effectively liaise with key portfolio governance stakeholders from across WSIB to ensure their inputs are represented and portfolio governance practices/processes are aligned (e.g., ECM, ITC, Privacy, Security, Internal Audit, Financial Planning & Operations, etc.)
- Working with the EPMO Delivery and EPMO Portfolio Governance teams, monitor that programs/projects are adhering to the guidelines/standards set by the WSIB EPMO (e.g., status reporting, gating, change control, etc.).