Strategic Foresight Analyst Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 52758)

Description

Are you passionate about shaping the future and driving impactful change? Do you thrive on identifying emerging trends and translating them into actionable strategies? Join our team as a Strategic Foresight Analyst and play a pivotal role ensuring our strategic planning is considered and responsive.

What will you do?

• Identify and assess opportunities to develop Corporate-level strategic foresight projects that provide insights on how best to prepare and harness future possibilities and turn these into action
• Enhance client-focused strategic and business planning, project planning, service development, delivery and outcomes
• Incorporate strategic foresight, social innovation, collective impact, developmental evaluation and other techniques to improve project outcomes and increase innovation
• Provide project and process management expertise on client-sponsored strategic and corporate projects
• Lead and support integrated strategic foresight project-based teams
• Develop project documentation, including plans, charters, presentations, and reports
• Facilitate sessions for information gathering, engagement, training and other project related requirements
• Engage clients, stakeholders, partners, citizens and staff, across multiple levels, as required for project deliverables
• Develop resources and conduct workshops and training sessions to build organizational capacity for strategic foresight
• Ongoing research, enabling the Corporation to be on top of trends and issues that can affect the business of the organization
• Conduct industry best practice research and identify and assess approaches in other municipalities. Gather and share information, stay up-to-date on latest trends in municipal government and local issues in the community and from other cities
• Other related responsibilities