Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Stakeholder Manager, the Senior Analyst is the ministry lead for developing capital partnerships with school jurisdictions. In this capacity, the Senior Analyst is responsible for identifying millions of dollars worth of potential capital partnerships, developing capital funding agreements, and tracking progress of their inclusion in capital projects.  Additionally, as the Education lead on disposition of property and real property governance, this position is responsible for identifying sites of potential educational interest throughout the province, conducting technical and feasibility analysis of these sites, and matching them with the capital needs of school jurisdictions.  The position is required to make field-level decisions which have a direct impact on the investment of multi-million dollar capital budgets. This position requires excellent written and personal communication skills as the Senior Analyst will collaborate and liaise with a variety of stakeholders across the province. 

The position is responsible for execution of the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Developing and formalizing standard operating procedures to manage the planning, execution, and monitoring of partnership agreements.
• Developing and implementing processes and procedures to evaluate potential properties for educational use, recommending sites for acquisition, identifying the school infrastructure needs of school jurisdictions, and making recommendations to senior leadership on real property opportunities.
• Monitoring disposition of property applications, evaluating all real property available to government for possible educational use, and tracking disposition of property deadlines and approvals. 
• Working directly with school jurisdictions, ministry staff, cross-ministry partners, and external stakeholders.
• Collaborating with Capital Planning staff to establish schedules that incorporate critical events, the operational requirements of the ministry, cross-ministry partners, school jurisdictions, and external stakeholders, and legislated deadlines.
• Preparing comprehensive, accurate, and well-written action request responses, correspondence, reports, and financial analyses.
• Providing advice and recommendations relating to issues, opportunities, risks, and challenges relating to partnership agreements, disposition of property applications, site investigations, three-year capital plans, and capital project proposals.
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships within Capital Planning, Education, Infrastructure, school jurisdictions, municipalities, and other and internal and external stakeholders.
• Participating in committees as assigned.
• Representing the ministry on cross-government working groups, promoting the ministry's interests, and sharing information.

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.

Note: Add additional position specific competencies here

• Systems Thinking- Considers the impact of strategies and changes on the work of clients, stakeholders, and team members and support organization vision and goals through strategic planning of tasks and considering relationships between different work approaches and their impact on different programs, divisions and ministries.
  
  
• Creative Problem Solving- Facilitates the creation of a work environment for generating and finding newer ideas to solve existing and potential problems. 
  
  
• Agility- Possesses an ability to create an adaptable environment and overcome barriers through proactive and flexible approach to work.

Qualifications

University graduation degree (preferably in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Infrastructure, etc.) in a related field plus at least two years' experience working in an environment related to facility design and/or capital planning for public infrastructure, or equivalent as described below. 

For application consideration, you must attach a cover letter explaining your qualification and suitability for this role.

Equivalency: 
Related education or experience considered: 

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.
  
  

Required:
 

• Knowledge of broad range of planning, engineering and construction, topics, particularly with relation to school buildings.
• Experience working in a public sector enterprise (preferably in a municipality, city, provincial government or federal government) would be a strong asset.
• Knowledge of broad range of Infrastructure life cycle management and/or asset management.
• Knowledge of government strategic and policy directions and business plan goals relating to the ministry mandate.
• Knowledge of relevant legislative and policy documents, including School Capital Manual, Education Act, Disposition of Property Regulation, relevant sections of the Municipal Government
• Act, and the Real Property Governance Act.
• Ability to research and analyze site plans and floor plans.
• Ability to synthesize data and develop associated recommendations, briefings or reports utilizing relevant information systems and business productivity software (e.g., Microsoft Word,
• Outlook, Excel, Power Point, internet).

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 permanent, full-time positions, working 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday. 

This position is located in Edmonton.

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.

The final candidate may undergo pre-employment checks and reference checks. 

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 have 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.
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.