Director, Public Safety Service / Directeur, directrice, Service de sécurité publique @ City of Ottawa

Role overview

Senior municipal leadership role responsible for the City of Ottawa’s Public Safety Service, including Corporate Security, Emergency Management, Corporate Radio and coordination of 911 services.

Key responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across public safety, security, emergency management and critical communications.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and coordinate key contract-partner personnel.
• Develop a phased roadmap for modernization, innovation and organizational readiness.
• Align public-safety strategy with municipal service-delivery and risk priorities.
• Champion business continuity, emergency preparedness and security standards across City departments.
• Advise senior leaders on emerging risks, critical incidents, coordinated response and recovery.
• Strengthen organizational resilience and explore more integrated, real-time situational-awareness and emergency-coordination approaches.
• Manage areas involving technology integration, contracts/vendors and budgets.

Qualifications

• Progressive senior leadership experience in a complex operational or policy environment such as municipal services, emergency response, government, public agencies or complex private-sector operations.
• Relevant exposure to public safety, emergency management, physical security, critical communications or inter-agency coordination.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams or broad service portfolios in high-consequence environments.
• Strong strategic-planning, operational-response and political-acuity skills.
• Ability to influence across departments and external partners without relying solely on direct authority.
• Media/spokesperson experience in both official languages is highly desirable.

Language and location

The official posting is published bilingually in English and French. Location: Ottawa, Ontario.