Role Responsibilities

Are you looking for a professional role in a flexible, positive work environment with progressive leadership? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic legislative environment with diverse policy teams? This is the perfect place to build your career while doing challenging work that actually fits your life, in a culture where people like coming to work each day and where colleagues actively support one another. We encourage everyone with a legislation, policy or agency governance background to apply!

Reporting to the Manager, Legislative Services, the Senior Legislative Analyst works to ensure policy and legislation (Acts and regulations) are coordinated and aligned across the Ministry to support the Government's and Ministry's mandates. The Senior Legislative Analyst is responsible for providing legislative planning and development services, and complex project management services for legislative projects.

This position is responsible for leading and supporting: legislative review projects; the drafting of new or amending legislation; and the preparation of decision documents needed to obtain the required approvals for legislative initiatives. JETI oversees legislation addressing the following areas:

• labour relations (including the Labour Relations Code and Public Service Employee Relations Act);
• workplace safety (including the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act and OHS Code);
• workers’ compensation (including the Workers’ Compensation Act and Heroes’ Compensation Act);
• employment standards (including the Employment Standards Code and Employment Standards Regulation); 
• registration practices (Fair Registration Practices Act); and
• economic development (including the Film and Television Tax Credit Act).

The position also has responsibility for drafting and managing the process for Ministerial Orders and Recommendations for Orders in Council to make Acts and regulations, and for appointments to JETI agencies, boards, commissions and councils.

Position accountabilities include:

• Contributes to legislative projects and initiatives by executing efficient project management;
• Prepares and provides input on briefings and other materials to obtain required approvals;
• Identifies issues and potential solutions and responses;
• Conducts research to inform perspectives and support alignment with strategic priorities;
• Works collaboratively with policy and program delivery areas to ensure legislative proposals align with policy intent; and
• Builds legislative capacity within JETI teams by providing guidance throughout the legislative process.

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Competencies for this position include:

• Develop Networks – Developing and maintaining relationships with JETI staff and staff from across the GOA is imperative for success in this role, including relationships with program delivery and policy staff, Legislative Counsel, legal counsel, and legislative and program area staff in other line departments.
   
• Agility – Demonstrating resiliency in an often dynamic environment, where priorities and direction may shift without advance notice.
  
  
• Drive for Results – Managing projects to completion is crucial and when developing various briefings packages, drafting instructions, legal instruments (i.e. MOs and ROCs) and other identified products, within prescribed (and often tight) timelines. 
  
  
• Systems Thinking – Supporting the creation of brand new legislation or drafting substantive amendments to existing legislation requires the Senior Legislative Analyst to consider linkages, anticipate impacts and ask questions regarding the underlying policy rationale and objectives.
  
  
• Creative Problem Solving – Asking deep, probing questions in order to understand policy intent. Finding ways to improve complex processes, and engaging others to encourage debate and generate ideas to solve problems while addressing risks. 

Qualifications

A university degree, preferably in Political Science, Public Administration, Arts or other related field, plus 4 years of related experience. One year of a degree will be considered equivalent to one year of experience, and vice-versa.

The Senior Legislative Analyst must have the following skills and abilities:

• Excellent interpersonal skills: relationship, negotiation, conflict management, consensus building, and facilitation skills to manage and coordinate policy and program delivery area staff and other departments in meeting project deliverables; ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary and multi-level team settings.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills: ability to research, develop, synthesize, articulate, and interpret a broad and complex range of legislative and policy principles and apply the results to the unique activities of each program area.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills: including an ability to express technical and complex issues in a manner that facilitates informed decision-making by senior Ministry officials.
• High level of adaptability: ability to work in a changing environment and respond to changes in process and short timelines.
• Aptitude for detail and accuracy: ability to focus on small details, ensuring work is thorough and precise.
• Excellent organizational and decision-making skills: ability to balance multiple responsibilities to meet deadlines, ability to exercise a high degree of independent decision-making, and sound judgment.

Assets include:

• Experience and skills in legislative planning and development, drafting Ministerial Orders or Recommendations for Order in Council, and managing complex projects to completion; 
• A thorough familiarity with the Government of Alberta’s policy development and legislative processes, including the roles of Legislative Counsel, Executive Council and Cabinet Committees, the timing of stages of the legislative process for both Bills and regulations, and related approval and decision-making processes;
• A thorough familiary with the Government of Alberta’s public agencies, agency governance best practices, and the preparation of agency appointment packages;
• A thorough familiarity with the legislation under JETI’s responsibility; and 
• A general knowledge of other legislation impacting the Ministry (e.g. Government Organization Act, Alberta Public Agencies Governance Act, Interpretation Act, Access to Information Act, Protection of Privacy Act) and related regulations.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

There is one temporary (up to 14 months) full-time position, working 36.25 hours, Monday to Friday per week.

Working location is in Commerce Place, Edmonton.

A cover letter, outlining how your experience relates to the qualifiations outlined in this job ad, is required.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a written assessment.

Final candidates may be required to undergo a security screening.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Also, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time, or full-time. For example: January 2020 - June 2022: Assistant (PT three 8 hr shifts/week).

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.