Role Responsibilities

The Indigenous and Community Partnership Unit is currently seeking three agile and driven Senior Policy Analysts to support the planning, implementation and monitoring of grant-funded projects and initiatives.

Reporting to a Manager in the Indigenous and Community Partnerships Unit of the Legislation and Community Partnerships Branch, the Senior Policy Analyst will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following activities:

• Project Management: Applying project management techniques and tools to assigned projects, adjusting project priorities and plans accordingly to effectively and efficiently achieve high quality, sustainable results.
• Grant Management: Managing multiple child and youth/Indigenous focused grants from proposal, agreement, and monitoring to close-out, and providing sound advice to guide implementation of the project and upholding stakeholder accountability to deliverables.
• Engagement: Fostering sustainable, positive working relationships with diverse partners and stakeholders to further ministry priorities. This includes participating and representing the ministry on committees and working groups, as well as facilitating meetings.
• Issue Analysis: Conducting thorough research and policy analysis, including consolidating stakeholder and partner perspectives, to inform child and youth/Indigenous mental health and addiction policy and program implementation.
• Briefing and Reporting: Leading and preparing recommendations and briefing materials for decision by senior leadership. Reporting updates, outcomes, issues, opportunities, and next steps to leadership about the unit's work.
• Communication Support: Providing input to meeting materials, correspondence, speaking notes, and other communications documents as requested to support department business goals.

Please click on this link to view the job description for the 10-month position (child/youth focused).

Please click on this link to view the job description for the one-year position (Indigenous focused).  

Please click on this link to view the job description for the two-year position (child/youth focused). 

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.

In this role, you will contribute to our team by demonstrating the following behavioral competencies:

Systems Thinking

• Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts across interrelated areas and factors this into planning.
• Integrates issues, political environment and risks when considering possible actions.

Agility

• Asks questions, seeks clarification, and assesses how things will be different when change is introduced or anticipated.
• Takes advantage of opportunities to change how work is completed to better anticipate obstacles and improve service.

Creative Problem Solving

• Asks questions to get a deeper understanding of present issues.
• Contributes ideas for how work can be done differently to solve common problems.

Drive for Results

• Takes past experience into considerations when making plans and adjusts plans based on past learning.
• Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other groups to achieve desired outcomes.

Build Collaborative Environments:

• Creates opportunities for project teams and stakeholders to share information.
• Respects others' point-of-view and encourages idea generation to collectively reach solutions and group consensus.

Qualifications

University degree in a health, human services, social sciences or public administration, and a minimum of four years of progressively responsible experience.

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

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

Required Experience:

• Project management
• Grant management
• Partner and stakeholder engagement
• Research and policy analysis

Assets:

• Experience in child/youth focused health or social services, and/or addiction and mental health services.
• Experience in Indigenous health or social services, and/or addiction and mental health services.
• Experience in government and policy processes is an asset.

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 are three temporary positions. Two positions focus on Child and Youth, and one focuses on Indigenous supports.

Working days are Monday – Friday, 36.25 hours/week – 8:15 am to 4:30 pm.

Location – Edmonton.

A cover letter is mandatory.

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.