Senior Advisor, GO Corridor Development

Metrolinx

Canada7h ago

Key details

Location: Canada
Work style: Onsite
Level: Senior
Job type: Full-time
Function: other
Focus area: other
Posted: 7h ago

Skills

cost analysisforecastingprestostrategic planning

About the role

Contract /Temporary Assignment upto 12 months

Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Toronto’s subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

At Metrolinx, equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values of serving with passion, thinking forward and playing as a team.

Transit Strategy and Insights works with teams across Metrolinx to provide the analysis, insights and strategic advice needed to develop transit projects and support investment decisions. We use forecasting, modelling, market insights and strategic analysis to understand customer and travel needs, evaluate opportunities and options, and help projects evolve from early ideas through development and delivery. Working across Metrolinx’s transit portfolios, we turn complex data and evidence into practical insights and advice that help shape better transit investments.

The Transit Strategy and Insights team is seeking a Senior Advisor, GO Corridor Development for a 12 month contract role to lead key streams of infrastructure and service investment analysis, option evaluation, and business cases that will shape the future GO Transit. The Senior Advisor will lead business case and investment development assignments, provide strategic oversight for market intelligence and portfolio monitoring, and help coordinate the pipeline of emerging project needs.

In this role, you will work closely with the Senior Manager at the centre of the team’s investment analysis, taking on major assignments end to end and acting as a delegate on defined matters when needed. Your work will directly inform decisions about future GO services, stations, corridors, and supporting infrastructure. You will develop and execute clear workplans, align contributors around a practical approach, and turn complex evidence into insights and recommendations for senior leaders.

What will I be doing?

Investment analysis and business cases

Lead GO Rail business cases and investment development assignments for proposed changes to services, stations, corridors, and supporting infrastructure, including investments ranging from approximately $100 million to more than $10 billion.
Translate client requirements into practical workplans, evaluation requirements, analytical methods, technical inputs, milestones, and review and approval steps; coordinate execution and keep assignments on track through completion.
Undertake and integrate ridership, revenue, cost, and benefit-cost analysis, and assess trade-offs across customer demand, rail operations, service planning, infrastructure, land use, deliverability, and risk to support decision-ready recommendations.

Portfolio insight and investment pipeline

Provide strategic oversight of GO capital project portfolio monitoring and market intelligence undertaken by other team members, test whether findings are relevant and robust and translate the work into implications for corridor and investment planning.
Support the Senior Manager in organizing the pipeline of emerging GO Rail analysis requests and projects by clarifying requirements, identifying dependencies, sequencing work, monitoring readiness, and ensuring priority items have a clear path forward.

Management support

Work closely with the Senior Manager to lead major assignments end to end, act as a delegate on defined matters when needed, and coordinate with specialists in ridership forecasting, economics, rail operations, service planning, engineering, finance, and project delivery to obtain and integrate the inputs required for investment decisions.
Maintain a current view of scope, milestones, dependencies, capacity, risks, decisions, and reporting requirements across assigned workstreams; identify emerging issues early and recommend practical action.
Review analytical and decision-support products for completeness, logic, consistency, and usefulness to decision-makers, challenge assumptions, document limitations, and ensure quality-review comments are resolved before approval.
Guide colleagues completing core analysis by helping them structure their work, resolve issues, engage the right subject-matter experts, and strengthen their documentation and recommendations, without direct people-management responsibilities.

Advice and collaboration

Prepare and present concise briefing notes, executive presentations, decision records, and recommendations for senior leaders and partner teams.
Represent the team in cross-functional working sessions, facilitate alignment among partners, and maintain clear responsibilities and paths for resolving or escalating issues.

What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need?

Education and experience

Completion of a degree or diploma in engineering, transportation or urban planning, public policy, business, economics, geography, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Demonstrated progressive experience, typically five or more years, leading business cases, investment planning, strategic planning, program development, or comparable decision-support assignments for transportation infrastructure, other capital infrastructure, or major public- or private-sector investment decisions.
Knowledge of passenger rail, freight rail, public transit, transportation planning, infrastructure development, or project lifecycles is an asset.

Investment evaluation and analytical judgement

Proven ability to translate a client requirement into an analytical and engagement workplan, coordinate contributors, manage delivery, and produce a defensible recommendation.
Experience evaluating major investments by bringing together strategic, economic, financial, operational, customer, deliverability, and risk considerations, including familiarity with ridership, revenue, cost, and benefit-cost analysis.
Ability to review and interpret quantitative and qualitative evidence, challenge assumptions, and identify gaps or inconsistencies, including the judgement to direct, influence, and interpret travel demand modelling and data analysis undertaken by others.

Leadership and delivery

Strong project and workstream leadership skills, including work planning, milestone management, dependency tracking, risk and issue management, quality review, and executive reporting.
Demonstrated leadership without formal authority, including facilitating alignment, guiding colleagues, resolving delivery issues, and influencing partners across organizational boundaries.

Communication and advice

Ability to synthesize complex information into concise, decision-ready advice for managers, directors, and non-technical partners.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing executive briefings, presentations, recommendations, and decision records.

Don’t Meet Every Requirement?

If you’re excited about working with Metrolinx but your past experience doesn’t quite align with every qualification of this posting, we encourage you to apply. You just might be the right candidate for this or other roles. We are always looking for great talent to join our team.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from members of equity-deserving communities, including those who identify as Indigenous, Black, racialized, women, people with disabilities, and people with diverse gender identities, expressions and sexual orientations.

Accommodation:
Metrolinx is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are also committed to offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants in accordance with applicable legislation. If you require assistance or an accommodation at any point during the hiring process, please contact us at: 416-202-5601 or email hr.recruitment@metrolinx.com.

Application Process:

All applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Metrolinx will be using email to communicate with you for all job competitions. It is your responsibility to include an updated email address that is checked daily and accepts emails from unknown users. As we send time-sensitive correspondence, we recommend that you check your email regularly. If no response is received, we will assume you are no longer interested in pursuing the opportunity. Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate.

For Internal applicants, with the recent implementation of the Internal Mobility Policy, the internal recruitment process has changed for non-union roles. Candidates must be in their current role for 12 months prior to applying for another role and each applicant must be in good standing (not participating in a Performance Improvement Plan). Please review all provisions of the policy before submitting your application.

Should it be determined that any background information provided is misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, Metrolinx reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of your application.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

WE ARE AN EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE EMPLOYER.

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