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#Probation Manager

Job ID:

241596

Posting status:

Open

Organization:

Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services

Division:

Youth Justice Division / Service Delivery Branch

City:

Sudbury

Position(s) language:

English

Job term:

1 Temporary contract/assignment – up to 12 months

Job code:

R1015M - Management Correctional10

Salary:

$92,920.00 - $135,056.00 Per year

Step into a leadership role that makes a meaningful impact on youth, families, and communities across the region. As the Probation Manager in Sudbury, you will oversee the delivery of critical probation services, ensuring programs are safe, effective, and aligned with provincial legislation and ministry priorities. You will guide a dedicated team of probation professionals, provide expert advice on complex and high-profile cases, and play a key role in implementing strategic initiatives that strengthen Ontario's youth justice system. This is an opportunity to bring your expertise in case management, justice services, and policy application to a role where your decisions directly support rehabilitation, public safety, and positive outcomes for young people.

In this dynamic and influential position, you will lead operations, build strong partnerships with community agencies and justice stakeholders, and manage everything from resource planning to quality assurance and program evaluation. As a values-based leader, you will foster an inclusive, engaged team environment, support staff development, and help shape the future of service delivery across the North. If you thrive in complex environments, excel at managing sensitive issues, and are motivated by the opportunity to lead transformational work, this role offers a unique chance to make a lasting difference while advancing your career in public service leadership.

Please note, occasional travel is required around the province throughout the year.

Leadership That Makes a Difference

At its core, leadership in the Ontario Public Service (OPS) is about creating positive change for people and communities across Ontario. We're looking for leaders who are authentic, accountable, and courageous. People who bring others together, ask bold questions, and lead with purpose.

##About the job

We believe great leadership starts with high standards and strong support. In the OPS, that means showing up with authenticity, acting with integrity, and having the courage to do what's right, even when it's hard.

As a leader, you'll shape a team culture that sparks innovation, supports collaboration, and champions inclusion. You'll help build a workplace that is diverse, anti-racist, and accessible, where everyone feels safe, respected, and able to thrive.

You won't be doing it alone. We invest in our leaders through mentorship, learning opportunities, and cross-ministry networks that help you grow your impact and connect with peers across the organization.

Leadership is about impact, and in this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful one. You will:

-Plan and coordinate probation services: Oversee day-to-day programs and activities to ensure efficient, effective service delivery aligned with divisional objectives and legal requirements. -Manage contentious issues: Identify, analyze, and navigate complex cases, complaints, media attention, and public safety concerns, preparing briefing notes and incident reports when needed. -Provide expertise and advice: Guide staff and stakeholders in interpreting legislation and policies, particularly for complex or sensitive cases involving enforcement, mental health, or specialized services. -Lead case management: Establish and maintain the case management service delivery model by assigning cases, conducting reviews, and ensuring full compliance with court orders and rehabilitation programs. -Lead and contribute to initiatives: Participate in and provide leadership on corporate projects, task forces, and government initiatives, supporting policy development and community justice resolutions. -Ensure quality and compliance: Conduct audits and reviews of case files and service delivery to ensure adherence to ministry standards, policies, and legislative requirements.

Your ability to align your team's efforts with broader organizational goals will be key to your success, and to the success of the people we serve.

Meet Your New Team

Youth Probation in Sudburyplays a vital role in Ontario's youth justice system by supporting young people aged 12–17 who are in conflict with the law and helping them take accountability while working toward positive change. The work focuses on communitybased rehabilitation, providing supervision, individualized case planning, and access to supports that address the underlying causes of offending behaviour. Local partners deliver enhanced supervision, lifeskills programming, crisis intervention, and connections to mental health, education, and employment resources to help youth successfully reintegrate into their communities. Through these services, Youth Probation Sudbury aims to reduce reoffending, promote safer communities, and help young people develop the tools they need to make healthier choices and build a more positive future.

##What you bring to the team

###Leadership Experience

-Demonstrated futurefocused leadership: You have shown the leadership behaviours, attributes, and mindsets needed to lead the OPS into the future. -Lead engaged and inclusive teams: Manages teams by communicating values, strategies, and expectations while fostering an engaged, inclusive environment. -Build strong, valuesbased teams: Fosters inclusive, valuesdriven teams through ongoing employee engagement, clear communication of deliverables, performance evaluations, merit recommendations, and staffing decisions. -Drive performance and development: Ensures organizational and operational goals are met by supporting succession planning, setting performance standards, conducting regular reviews, and building individual and team capabilities. -Lead program and service delivery: Leads and manages teams in delivering programs or service operations while contributing to financial, business, strategic planning, and evaluation processes. -Recruit, train, and support staff: Identifies staffing needs, oversees recruitment and selection, manages staff orientation and training, and addresses employee and labour relations matters.

###Interpersonal and Communication Skills

-Coordinate across senior leadership: Develops and leads consultation and coordination of programs and services with senior management, community leaders, and colleagues across the province. -Advise on complex issues: Communicates local issues to senior ministry leadership and provides interpretation of legislation and policy in difficult or sensitive cases. -Strengthen community partnerships: Builds and renews community engagement in justice services by collaborating with partners to implement strategic direction and discuss community justice matters. -Contribute to corporate initiatives: Participates as a member or leader on corporate projects and task forces, providing policy input and responding to community justice issues at the regional and corporate level. -Engage with diplomacy and professionalism: Provides effective customer service, leads committees, enhances programs, and maintains strong networks using negotiation, facilitation, diplomacy, and consensus-building skills. -Communicate complex information clearly: Translates specialized, technical, and complex information into clear, accessible language for diverse audiences.

###Program Responsibility

-Oversee probation and case management delivery: Implements and manages probation services and case management processes within the assigned regional area. -Ensure effective and compliant service delivery: Ensures timely and efficient program delivery in alignment with legislation, regulations, and ministry/divisional policies while optimizing resources. -Drive quality improvement: Identifies and resolves service gaps, evaluates program effectiveness, and improves operational and business processes for enhanced quality and efficiency. -Support longterm planning: Participates in developing longterm and annual plans, ensuring alignment with OPS, ministry, division, and operational performance measures and service standards.

###Knowledge

-Apply legislation and policy effectively: Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply legislation, regulations, policies, and procedures to ensure ministrystandard service delivery. -Develop strategic programs and directions: Skilled in developing strategic directions, policies, programs, and service delivery models. -Manage programs aligned with organizational goals: Ability to lead program areas, services, and initiatives in alignment with broader organizational objectives. -Oversee HR and talent management: Knowledge of HR practices including recruitment, training, development, and talent management. -Manage financial and administrative processes: Experience applying government financial practices, budgeting, and resource allocation. -Apply project management principles: Uses project management methodologies to deliver programs effectively. -Coordinate justice and social services: Ability to navigate justice systems, social service networks, and rehabilitation programs. -Apply case management expertise: Knowledge of case management theories, residential standards, service delivery, related legislation, and treatment options. -Manage complex and contentious issues: Skilled at identifying, analyzing, and resolving contentious issues at the area level.

##Don't meet every qualification?

If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!

Don't meet every qualification?
If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!
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##How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility

We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario'sHuman Rights Codeand the*Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.*We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.

Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

• diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• accessibility
• Anti-Racism Policy

##Additional information:

Apply by:

Thursday, April 9, 2026 11:59 pm EDT

Position details:

• 1 English Temporary, duration up to 12 months, 199 Larch St, Sudbury, North Region, Broad Record Check, Local Police Databases Search

Compensation group:

Management Compensation Plan

Work hours:

Schedule 6

Category:

Management and General

Posted on:

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Note:

-About security checks: A criminal or other federal offence recorddoes not automatically disqualify youfrom the position. We consider each situation based on the position's responsibilities.
If a check is needed and you've lived outside of Canada in the past 5 years for 6 or more months in a row, or if you are not a Canadian resident, you'll need to provide an out-of-country police clearance certificate from the country you lived in.
Employment screening checks are only reviewed and evaluated by the Transition and Security Office, which also maintains them and keeps them strictly confidential.

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##How to apply:

• You must apply online.

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Language requirements and assessment: All external Ontario Public Service (OPS) job ads are posted in English and French. Check the "position(s) language" section at the top of each job ad for the language requirements. For all roles, candidates are assessed in English, the business language of the OPS. If the position is bilingual (English/French), you'll also need to pass a French-language proficiency test.

Exigences en matière de langue et évaluation: Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario (FPO) sont affichées en français et en anglais. Consultez la section « Langue du ou des postes » en haut de chaque offre d'emploi pour connaître les exigences linguistiques. Pour tous les postes, les candidats sont évalués en anglais, la langue d'affaires de la FPO. Si le poste est bilingue (anglais/français), vous devrez également passer un test de compétences linguistiques en français.

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