General Supervisor, Program Management

Help turn evidence into action and shape the next chapter of Vision Zero in Edmonton! Everyone deserves to move safely. The Safe Mobility section leads Edmonton's commitment to Vision Zero by advancing safer, more predictable, and accessible travel throughout the city. Guided by the Safe Mobility Strategy, we use evidence-informed approaches to reduce risk, support safe and welcoming communities, and improve how the City plans, designs, operates, and renews the mobility network.

Reporting to the Director, Safe Mobility, the General Supervisor, Program Management leads two critical section-wide functions: Program Management and Planning & Monitoring. Together, these teams form a vital link between understanding what is happening on Edmonton’s streets and delivering the improvements that make them safer. You will lead the people who:

• Collect and analyze mobility data
• Advance innovative monitoring technologies
• Identify trends
• Coordinate academic research partnerships
• Provide the evidence that informs where and how the City acts

You will also lead the program management function that helps turn those insights and priorities into coordinated delivery, supporting Safety Engineering and Traffic Signals Design and Construction projects through their lifecycle from planning and investment through implementation. The result is a unique end-to-end leadership opportunity. Your teams will help ensure that Safe Mobility’s work is:

• Grounded in evidence
• Strategically prioritized
• Effectively resourced
• Successfully delivered

Whether that means neighbourhood traffic calming, safer crossings, speed management initiatives, or major infrastructure such as traffic signals, your leadership will be key.

You will join the Safe Mobility leadership team at an exciting point in Edmonton’s Vision Zero journey. The City is advancing its Safe Mobility Strategy 2027–2030 with a targeted, place-based approach focused on:

• Neighbourhoods
• Schools
• Major roads and intersections

There is also a continued commitment to evidence-informed decision-making and the Safe System approach. The work of the teams you lead will be foundational to turning that strategy into results Edmontonians can see and experience on their streets.

Learn more about Vision Zero and the Safe Mobility Strategy⁠ (edmonton.ca/VisionZero).

• Lead and develop an exceptional multidisciplinary team of approximately 30 permanent and 10 recurring seasonal employees, including people leaders, professional staff, and technical specialists. Coach leaders, build capability, and create an environment of trust, accountability, curiosity, and collaboration.
• Connect evidence to action. Provide strategic leadership for mobility data collection, analysis, monitoring, and technology, ensuring high-quality evidence informs how Safe Mobility identifies risk, establishes priorities, directs investment, and measures results.
• Provide senior leadership for Safe Mobility’s program management function, ensuring a coordinated and disciplined approach to moving a significant portfolio of capital and operational initiatives from priority to implementation.
• Lead integrated portfolio planning across Safe Mobility programs, bringing together evidence, strategic priorities, available resources, delivery capacity, and risk to inform investment and delivery decisions.
• Oversee multi-year program and portfolio forecasting that informs capital budgeting, operating planning, workforce planning, and organizational readiness.
• Establish strong portfolio governance and performance practices, including approaches to prioritization, sequencing, resource allocation, risk management, delivery assurance, and performance reporting.
• Create the conditions for successful delivery by ensuring strong integration among technical program owners, project teams, corporate delivery partners, and other key partners across the City.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement in how the City collects and uses mobility data, applies technology, manages programs, and evaluates the effectiveness of its investments.
• Provide strategic oversight and coordination of Safe Mobility’s academic research partnerships, including the City’s relationship with the University of Alberta, to align research priorities with organizational needs and translate research findings into practical policy, planning, and investment decisions.
• Monitor portfolio-level financial performance, organizational capacity, delivery risks, and emerging issues, providing strategic advice and implementing mitigation strategies where required.
• Build strong relationships across the corporation and beyond, positioning Program Management and Planning & Monitoring as trusted, responsive services to Safe Mobility and other City partners.
• Contribute as a core member of the Safe Mobility leadership team, helping shape section-wide strategy, priorities, organizational decisions, and the implementation of the Safe Mobility Strategy 2027–2030.