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Location: North York, Toronto (Hybrid, 1 day per week onsite)
Type: contract until Jan 2027 with possible extension
Background Check Requirement: Not specified
About the Opportunity
A large public sector organization is seeking an experienced ITS Portfolio Manager to lead the planning, governance, reporting, and delivery of strategic technology and cybersecurity initiatives. This permanent opportunity is ideal for someone who can bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex work that supports enterprise transformation and risk management.
In this role, youll work closely with technology leaders, business stakeholders, finance, procurement, legal, privacy, audit teams, and external partners. Your work will help strengthen portfolio visibility, improve decision-making, and support the successful delivery of security, governance, risk, and compliance priorities.
Whats In It for You
Youll join a mission-driven environment where technology plays a meaningful role in supporting essential services and improving organizational resilience. This is a high-impact opportunity to build trusted relationships, influence portfolio maturity, and contribute to a culture that values collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Your Responsibilities
Youll develop and maintain integrated portfolio plans, governance structures, roadmaps, milestones, reporting cycles, and delivery plans
In this role, youll coordinate cross-functional initiatives by managing scope, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, action items, and escalations
Youll prepare executive briefings, dashboards, scorecards, status summaries, and reporting packages for leadership and governance forums
Youll lead financial stewardship for assigned portfolios, including budget planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and investment reporting
Youll partner with Finance, Procurement, Legal, ITS leadership, vendors, and external consultants to support business cases, contracts, statements of work, renewals, and delivery commitments
Youll support security and risk-related initiatives, including audit remediation, evidence coordination, policy work, control improvement plans, and change adoption activities
Skills and Qualifications
7+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, technology risk, audit, compliance, or IT portfolio/project management, including 3+ years leading cross-functional security or risk-related initiatives
PMP certification is required, with PfMP, PgMP, COBIT, NIST, ITIL, Lean, Agile, business analysis, financial management, or PROSCI certification considered an asset
Experience with NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT, CIS Controls, privacy requirements, vulnerability management, IAM, security operations, incident response, business continuity, disaster recovery, and security control implementation
Strong proficiency with ServiceNow, Microsoft Project, Planner, Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Visio, Confluence, Power BI, Excel, dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, and executive presentations
Demonstrated experience with risk registers, control libraries, policy management, audit tracking, evidence coordination, third-party risk, security procurements, statements of work, and vendor oversight
Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, judgment, discretion, and ability to influence without direct authority
Note from the Hiring Manager
Were looking for someone who can bring structure to complex security and technology priorities while building trust across teams. The ideal person is organized, collaborative, and comfortable turning details into clear insights for decision-making.
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