Metro Vancouver

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The Vice President, Data, Research & Policy leads a team committed to ensuring REPS achieves its strategic goals – using data and research to define the possible, while identifying and navigating potential policy challenges. To this end, the Vice President, Data, Research & Policy works closely with multi-level government partners to identify opportunities for REPS to access and utilize resources and capacity in order to amplify strategic investment within the Metro Vancouver region. The Vice President, Data, Research & Policy leads a highly professional team and is also a member of REPS leadership team, supporting the achievement of the organization’s services, mission, vision, and mandate.

The ideal candidate is an experienced and respected data, research and policy leader who has worked in the policy, regulatory and economic development fields to allow for meaningful strategic investment and downstream activities to occur. They have worked in a complex public sector environment, economic development entity or large “think-tank” where relationships are key to moving an agenda forward. The ideal candidate is an enabler who supports new ideas and concepts and finds a way forward amongst competing priorities. They are known as a credible expert, who operates with integrity.