Position Description

Leader, Real Property Initiatives
Location ON, Ottawa - Operations
Requisition Number 6937
Openings 1
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Who Can Apply?:
Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)
Salary Range:
$124,013 - $161,216
Employment status:
Continuing
Term Length:
Security Level:
Secret
Language Requirement:
Bilingual Mandatory
Closing Date:
19/09/2025
Country:
Canada
Employee Referral Program Level:
$1000
Position Reporting To - Title:
National Director, Real Property Management Services

 

 

** This position has been designated bilingual, where English and French are essential. **

** While priority will be given to qualified candidates who meet this bilingual linguistic profile, we welcome applications from candidates who may not meet this bilingual requirement. **

SUMMARY 

The Leader, Real Property Initiatives, leads and manages development of highly complex services in the areas of planning, acquisition, operation, maintenance and disposal of real property. The incumbent is accountable for delivering national service line initiatives, developing and maintaining policies, processes and tools to support real property services and ensuring the quality of those services across DCC. The Leader, Real Property Initiatives, leads and integrates activities with service delivery, develops strong working relationships with all stakeholders and provides expert guidance and advice across the organization. The incumbent develops innovative and creative solutions, manages risks, promotes collaboration and ensures the quality and timeliness of deliverables.The incumbent may also lead a team of professionals and manage the human resources responsibilities for the team.

KEY AND PERIODIC ACTIVITIES
The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative but not all-inclusive:

  • Provide expert guidance, advice, functional oversight and leadership for development of key national real property initiatives and programs
  • Identify needs, plan resources for initiatives, and identify needed process efficiencies
  • Support, promote, lead and implement service development activities
  • Establish program objectives and define scope, deliverables, roles and responsibilities in collaboration with stakeholders
  • Develop policies and processes for real property activities such as asset management, property management, land use planning and leasing
  • Ensure the integration of health and safety, security and environmental requirements into service delivery
  • Monitor activities and report on risks that will affect service delivery
  • Develop training materials and guidance documents
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to integrate and optimize services provided to the Client-Partners
  • Develop and maintain effective relationships within DCC, and with industry, the ClientPartners and/or stakeholders
  • Perform human resources functions (e.g. coach, supervise, mentor, plan and allocate resources, manage performance)
  • Ensure quality standards are met, in line with corporate expectations

Other

  • Provide input to service level agreements
  • Ensure compliance with service line best practices and guidelines
  • Support verifications conducted by regional service line leaders
  • Other duties as assigned

SKILLS
General and Specific Knowledge

  • Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in real property transactions, land use, engineering, construction and environmental services
  • Best practices and trends in strategic planning, risk management, financial management and human resources management
  • DCC and Client-Partner processes and procedures
  • Health and safety management
  • Project and risk management principles

Formal Education and/or Certification(s) and Experience

  • Minimum: undergraduate degree in business, engineering, architecture, land use planning or related field with eight years’ progressive experience in real estate development and/or contract management for complex infrastructure projects, and more than five years’ experience in a management/leadership role
  • Preferred: professional designation or accreditation in a related field

Abilities

  • Use applicable computer software and operating systems
  • Provide functional advice to Client-Partners
  • Resolve complex problems with multiple stakeholders
  • Apply project and risk management techniques

DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP

  • May lead and manage direct reports
  • Provide functional direction and advice to employees, and to the Client-Partners and stakeholders
  • Provide coaching, mentoring and technical guidance to staff

WORKING CONDITIONS

  • Typical office environment with occasional travel

CHECK OUT YOUR BENEFITS
Working with us offers excellent opportunities for growth and advancement—and entitles you to one of the job market’s best benefits packages valued at between 25 and 30% of your salary.

Your package includes:

Health and Wellness
o    100% employer-paid annual sick leave, and health and dental premiums
o    $400 wellness allowance to help cover expenses such as a gym membership
o    $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 paramedical coverage
o    Telus Virtual Health Care and $750 Health Care Spending Account for some expenses not covered under provincial plans

Home and Family
o    Life, accidental-death, and short-term disability insurance
o    Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program
o    Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for up to 37 weeks
o    Flexible workplace options, including $400 allowance every two years, to support working from home

Leave and Retirement
o    Public-service pension
o    Comprehensive vacation and other paid-leave plans, along with deluxe travel benefit plans

 

To begin a career with Defence Construction Canada (DCC), you must be a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident of Canada.  As a condition of employment with DCC, a minimum reliability security status clearance is required and some roles may require secret security status clearance.

DCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process. Typically to be eligible for a "Reliability" clearance, you must have five years of verifiable background information and to be eligible for a "Secret" clearance, you must have 10 years of verifiable background information. The process usually involves reference inquiries, verification of qualifications, criminal records checks, and credit checks (as required) and may require fingerprints. For more information about obtaining a security clearance, please review the Standard on Security Screening.

The appropriate security clearance is a condition of employment and it is the candidate’s or employee’s responsibility to ensure, they are able to obtain and maintain their required security level clearance to begin or continue their employment with DCC.  Failure to obtain or maintain, the appropriate level of security clearance means either the candidate or employee will not receive a job offer, the conditional offer will be rendered null and void or their employment will be terminated with cause. A thorough security clearance process will be applied to all candidates or employees considered for an appointment; this process includes inquiries, verifications and assessments regarding matters such as, but not limited to:

  • criminal record checks

  • reference checks

  • previous employment

  • open source checks

  • credit/financial status


DCC's Code of Business Conduct (Code) is a condition of employment. It serves to enhance public confidence in the integrity of DCC Employees and provides clarity to Employees on a number of issues, including real or perceived conflicts of interest. Before applying to this (or any) position at DCC, candidates shall familiarize themselves with the Code, because new employees are required to certify that they have read, understood, and agreed to observe the Code upon commencing work at DCC. Employees are further required to review their obligations under the Code and notify the President's Office of any changes in their circumstances at the earliest possible opportunity, and to complete the Annual Update once a year.


Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace!

At DCC, we are committed to ensuring everyone has a voice and can be their authentic selves in our workplace. We actively encourage applications from all, including but not limited to, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and members of the LGBTQ2+ community. We also welcome applications from those who are not Canadian citizens who are eligible to work in Canada and have at least 5 years of verifiable background information.

DCC is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all requests for accommodation based on a medical contraindication, religion or another prohibited ground for discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act. Should you require accommodation, please email careers@dcc-cdc.gc.ca.

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