Role Responsibilities

Are you a highly creative thinker with a passion for driving excellence in Information Management and Technology (IMT) governance? We’re looking for someone who can go beyond standard frameworks and bring innovative, forward-thinking approaches to governance design. As a Senior IMT Governance Analyst, you will play a critical role in shaping the strategic direction of IMT governance policies, frameworks, and processes that ensure the effective management of information and technology across the organization.

As a Senior IMT Governance Analyst, you will:

• Support the development and Implementation of IMT Governance Frameworks: Lead the design and implementation of robust IMT governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, legislative requirements, and industry best practices.
  
  
• Provide Strategic Advice: Collobrating with stakeholders, offering recommendations to optimize IMT governance practices and align them with business objectives.
  
  
• Policy Development and Compliance: Develop and maintain IMT policies, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and organizational requirements. You’ll also monitor and assess adherence to these policies across the organization.
  
  
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal teams, external partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive consensus on IMT governance initiatives. Your ability to build relationships and communicate effectively will be critical to your success.
  
  
• Risk Management and Assurance: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to IMT governance, while also providing assurance that governance structures meet organizational needs.
  
  
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the effectiveness of governance policies and frameworks, making recommendations for continuous improvement.
  
  
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Stay ahead of emerging trends in IMT governance and drive innovation by incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and practices into the organization’s IMT strategy.
  
  
• Training and Awareness: Promote awareness and understanding of IMT governance policies, frameworks, and practices across the organization through training and communication initiatives.
  
  

This role provides an opportunity to influence and enhance the way the organization manages its information and technology assets, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and delivering value to stakeholders. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for governance, collaboration, and innovation, this role is the perfect fit for you.

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.

As the ideal candidate, you will demonstrate the following behavioral competencies:

• Systems Thinking: You consider the inter-relationships among different aspects of an approach including how they relate to other programs or areas.
• Creative Problem Solving: You assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solution.
• Agility: You anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.
• Drive for Results: You identify underlying causes for success or lack of success which may or may not involve self and takes action to ensure future success.
• Develop Networks: You proactively build networks, connecting and building trust in relationships with different stakeholders.
• Build Collaborative Environments: You lead and contribute to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.
• Develop Self and Others: You reflect and understand your own and your direct reports’ areas of strengths and opportunities for development.

Qualifications

University graduation in Public Administration, Law, Political Science, Business Administration, Information management, Information Technology or related field. 

Minimum of 4 years progressively responsible related experience in areas such as strategic planning, governance, business intelligence and reporting, policy development, legislative compliance, project management, process improvement, or stakeholder engagement.

Assets and Preferences:

• Experience in strategic planning and governance.
• Experience in Project management.
• Experience working on comprehensive documents, technical and status reports, briefings, etc.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders 
• Experience working with or across government departments, public sector agencies, or inter-jurisdictional bodies.
• Ability to use records management systems and collaborative tools like SharePoint.
• Comfort handling confidential information and working in environments where discretion is essential.
  
  

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

This position work Monday to Friday, 8:15 AM-4:30 PM, 36.25 hours a week.

In your resume, 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 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. 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 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.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.