AECOM Mississauga is hiring a Governance Manager.
The Governance Manager is responsible for managing the day‑to‑day operation of the program’s governance framework to enable effective, timely, and well‑supported decision‑making. This role ensures governance forums run efficiently, supports senior leaders in preparing decision materials, and drives continuous improvement in governance processes, templates, and capability-building. This role works closely with the governance lead, directors, delivery partners, project teams, and executives to maintain clarity of roles, decision rights, and accountability across the program.
This is a newly created role.
Key Responsibilities
Governance Operations & Process Management
Manage the day-to-day functioning of the governance framework (meeting cycles, prep, follow-ups).
Track and evaluate the quality, timeliness, and completeness of decision-making.
Maintain and refine the governance decision-making log.
Identify bottlenecks or recurrent failure points and propose solutions.
Stakeholder Engagement
Collaborate with directors, project leads, and technical teams to prepare governance papers, business cases, decision packages, and briefing materials.
Identify and support a network of governance champions across both the transit agency and the delivery partner.
Provide guidance to teams on governance pathways, including which committee, board, or forum should review and make decisions on specific items.
Facilitate communication and coordination across teams to ensure readiness for governance milestones.
Continuous Improvement
Lead lessons‑learned exercises related to governance effectiveness, decision-making quality, and process efficiency.
Refine and maintain governance templates, workflows, decision pathways, and RACI models.
Design and coordinate governance capability‑building sessions, training, and briefings for program teams.
Monitor emerging best practices in public‑sector and transit-industry governance and integrate improvements where applicable..