Chief of Staff

Salary range: $102,710 - $128,381

Location:

250 Yonge Street, Toronto ON (onsite, 5 days a week in office)
Applications must be received by February 3, 2026, 5pm EST.

Invest Ontario is an independent government agency dedicated to securing private sector strategic business and capital investments that will support economic development, resiliency, and job creation in Ontario. We work hard to bring new opportunity to the province.

At Invest Ontario, you will learn and grow alongside a cohort of talented people from diverse backgrounds and industries. You will work in a collaborative, fast-paced and dynamic environment where you are encouraged to be your best self and given the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

The Chief of Staff plays a pivotal role in enabling the success of the Chief Executive Officer and the Agency, as a whole. Acting as a senior advisor, strategist, and integrator, this role ensures alignment, coordination, and execution of Agency-wide priorities, while overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Executive Office. The role blends a strategic mindset, with operational effectiveness - balancing foresight with follow-through.

This position leads and supports initiatives that drive Invest Ontario’s performance, culture, and long-term impact. It requires sound judgment, political acuity, and an ability to lead with empathy and understanding, often in complex and rapidly evolving context. It is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, relationships, and execution, and who can move seamlessly from the boardroom to the back office with confidence, discretion and finesse.

A more detailed description of the job responsibilities can be found below.

• Lead the effective functioning of the Chief Executive Office, ensuring coordination across key activities including Agency planning, Board governance, and stakeholder relations.
• Integrate executive support functions across the Agency and Ministry to enhance transparency, performance, and responsiveness.
• Support the governance of the Board of Directors and its committees, ensuring appropriate record-keeping and fulfilment of terms and policies, ensuring consistent timing for materials.
• Optimize and organize the CEO’s calendar to triage meetings/engagements, requesting teams; provide recommendations and rationale for CEO engagements; helping to ensure scheduling allows for decision-making, strategic discussions and prioritizing agency goals.
• Enable successful office operations through adept resource and supply management, facility management and leasing.

• Strengthen transparency across the Agency and with partners by increasing information sharing, sharing decision rationales (where appropriate) to foster broader understanding and trust.
• Support open communication by ensuring the CEO’s priorities and commitments are visible and understood across departments.
• Proactively cascading key updates, Ministry updates, important information, Board and Committee decisions, within the Agency and across to the Ministry.
• Manage financial, operational, and administrative responsibilities with discipline and foresight supporting decision-making through evidence, insight, and sound analysis.
• Provide leadership on cross-cutting priorities to ensure alignment, coordination, and execution of Agency-wide priorities.
• Facilitate frequent Senior Leadership and Leadership meetings to review cross-functional alignment, celebrate wins, and provides an opportunity to surface issues early.
• Acts as main Ministry-Agency liaison to help with the triaging, prioritization and timely delivery of responses, products, reporting and other deliverables, as required. Plan and manage initiatives, programs, manages/resolves urgent or sensitive matters within or involving the Agency where appropriate, delegating matters to appropriate management and staff.
• Build strong working relationships with senior officials across the Ministry, Cabinet Office, partner agencies, and industry stakeholders to advance Invest Ontario's mandate.
• Facilitate Agency-wide communication and engagement-ensuring alignment between internal teams and external partners and enabling timely and coordinated responses.
• Act as a liaison across leadership levels, surfacing insights, managing organizational dynamics, and cultivating trust within the Agency and across relationships with varying stakeholders.

• Provides expertise, executive advice/recommendations and support to the CEO and other executives on operational, administrative, policy and procedural matters/issues affecting the Agency.
• Identifies, analyses and resolves complex and contentious issues.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner and trusted advisor to the CEO-providing insight, clarity, and honest counsel.
• Drive alignment between strategy, operations, and governance by designing and overseeing decision-making…