Manager, Strategic Initiatives & Governance

About RECO

As Ontario’s regulator of more than 110,000 real estate agents and brokerages (often referred to as registrants), RECO administers and enforces the law that regulates trading in real estate in Ontario and enhances consumer confidence in the real estate services sector. RECO’s commitment to pursuing trust in every transaction means consumers can navigate the real estate market with confidence.

A modern regulator with approximately 170 employees, RECO is a collegial and dynamic environment where strategic agility, curiosity and empathy are valued.

RECO has a ‘hybrid’ environment, which typically includes a minimum attendance in the office of two days per week, with some teams/positions requiring more frequent in-office attendance.

RECO is committed to promoting an equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment that includes awareness, education, and engagement-building opportunities for all employees.

Reporting to the Chief Strategy & Corporate Officer (“CSCO”), the Manager, Strategic Initiatives & Governance is responsible for managing day-to-day coordination of RECO’s governance and Board affairs function and provides enterprise-wide coordination of transformation initiatives, corporate planning and reporting, and corporate policy processes.

Working closely with the CEO, executive leadership, the Board of Directors, and leaders across RECO, the Manager maintains consolidated reporting on enterprise initiatives and corporate priorities, identifies dependencies, sequencing requirements, and emerging risks, and provides analysis, advice, and organizational follow-through to support effective execution and decision-making. The role oversees the Board Administrator and manages selected enterprise-wide initiatives and special projects.

• Coordinates RECO’s portfolio of transformation initiatives, working across the organization with executive sponsors and initiative leads to support alignment, effective planning, and organizational follow-through.
• Maintains an integrated view of significant initiatives, milestones, dependencies, sequencing requirements, risks, and issues and coordinates consolidated reporting to support effective executive oversight.
• Monitors progress against agreed commitments, identifies competing priorities and emerging delivery risks, and provides timely analysis, constructive challenge, and recommendations to the CSCO, CEO, and ELT.
• Promotes alignment between transformation initiatives, RECO’s Strategic Plan, Business Plan, corporate scorecard, and organizational priorities.
• Manages selected enterprise-wide strategic initiatives and special projects assigned by the CSCO or CEO.

• Coordinates RECO’s corporate planning, performance management, and reporting processes, including the Business Plan, Annual Report, corporate scorecard, and other key corporate deliverables.
• Supports the implementation and reporting of RECO’s Strategic Plan and alignment between strategic priorities, corporate plans, performance measures, and organizational commitments.
• Supports the corporate scorecard process, including quarterly reporting, quality assurance of organizational updates, identification of emerging risks and dependencies, and consolidated reporting to executive leadership and the Board.
• Maintains an integrated corporate planning and reporting calendar and supports coordination of significant organizational commitments, priorities, and reporting requirements.
• Coordinates RECO’s corporate policy framework, inventory, standards, and review cycle, working with accountable business areas that retain responsibility for policy content and implementation.
• Coordinates SLT planning and meetings in support of the CEO and ELT, including forward agendas, materials, decisions, action tracking, and organizational follow-through.
• Supports executive leaders, Board members, and leaders across RECO to support coordination of enterprise priorities, coordinate information and reporting, and…