Description
Edmonton's renowned River Valley park system is a vital community space, offering diverse opportunities for people to recreate, celebrate, and connect in the tranquility of nature. As a Team Leader with the River Valley Parks and Facilities team, your primary mission will be to be the frontline champion for an outstanding visitor experience. This exciting and dynamic portfolio directly enhances the public's enjoyment of the River Valley—from bringing seasonal attractions like winter skating and cross-country skiing to life, to ensuring premier rental venues like Yorath House and Northeast Park Event Centre are excellently managed, and enabling memorable festivals, events, and gatherings of all sizes.
The City of Edmonton is seeking an approachable, independent problem-solver to actively manage the complex operational work that ensures the River Valley is safe, accessible, and of the highest quality for every user. If you thrive in a high-paced, complex environment and are looking to showcase your leadership, communication, and troubleshooting skills to elevate our visitors' time in the River Valley, apply today!
What will you do?
- Deliver high quality visitor experiences by developing annual work plans, determining service level requirements, and managing and deploying the associated labour, equipment and financial resources required to implement the work plan
- Lead, manage and coach an effective and respectful team of Labourer I, II and Crew Leader positions, including hiring, orientation, training, performance management and evaluation
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with section staff, other City branches and departments as well as external stakeholders including the general public, event organizers, special interest groups, suppliers and partners in order to meet various customer and operational needs.
- Responsibly manage financial resources by adhering to City procurement processes, reviewing financial information, contributing to reporting requirements and resolving any budgetary discrepancies
- Work with various partner and customer groups for the coordination of their projects and activities within the River Valley
- Effectively and professionally communicate through verbal and written methods
- Develop, edit and manage 311 scripting related to the River Valley, and investigate and address citizen comments/concerns in a timely manner and provide feedback and responses to councilor inquires
- Coordinate the deployment, servicing, sharing, replacement and acquisition of equipment resources for River Valley Parks and Facilities
- Promote a safe work environment and coordinate and manage the Occupational Health & Safety requirements for River Valley Parks & Facilities, including the required documentation and communication related to hazard assessments, inspections, incidents, safety meetings, SOP's, and site specific issues.
- Support the City of Edmonton environmental management system through pollution prevention, regulatory compliance and continual improvement with the Enviso team
- Explain and interpret related City of Edmonton agreements, bylaws and policies to employees, contractors and the public
- Prepare and contribute to various reports to support section, budget and workforce planning
- Support and attend various meetings as a participant, resource, organizer/chair and record and distribute meeting results, and follow up on assigned action items
- Perform related duties as required
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