Strategic Business Advisor

5 months ago

St Albert, Canada City of St. Albert Full time

**Cultivate your Career**

As Alberta's 'Botanical Arts City', St. Albert is a community renowned for its botanical arts, its commitment to a green lifestyle and the cultivation of activities that provide for a well-rounded quality of life. Our employees provide over 70,000 residents with high-quality programs and services and are proud to contribute to making St. Albert one of the best places to live in Canada.

**The Opportunity**

We are seeking to hire a Strategic Business Advisor to work in the Strategic Services Branch of our Financial and Strategic Services Department.

The Strategic Business Advisor plays a key role within the Strategic Framework, leading and supporting several key processes including strategic and business planning, service improvement, performance measurement, reporting and risk management. The Advisor supports departments in navigating our integrated business planning system to achieve organizational goals and performance.

As a trusted advisor, this position will provide a significant amount of advice and thus the incumbent requires exceptional communication and facilitation skills, strong interpersonal skills, the ability to build strategic networks across the organization, and implement and lead change initiatives.

Reporting to the Manager, Strategic Services, the Advisor will:

- Facilitate development of client departments business plans.
- Facilitate process and service improvements and provide advice for the creation of change management plans for departments and corporate initiatives.
- Support the development of a risk management program and corporate risk register.
- Foster and maintain strong working relationships across the organization.
- To excel in this role, you must be able to facilitate a variety of stakeholders through strategic thinking that supports and contributes to organizational goals and outcomes. The individual we seek is a natural leader who can manage diverse needs, competing priorities and is adaptable to change.

**Qualifications**
- An undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Public Administration or a related field combined with a minimum of three years of experience in designing and implementing organizational processes such as business planning, performance measurement, service and process improvement, and corporate reporting.
- Equivalencies of a relevant Diploma and a minimum of five years of experience will be considered.
- Certification related to strategic planning, risk management or change management would be considered an asset.
- Experience and skill in, facilitation, strategic planning, business planning, performance measurement, enterprise risk management, process design, reporting, research, change management, policy development and analytical techniques.
- Strong written and oral communication skills with diversified audiences, with proven results.
- Strategic thinker with proven ability to translate thinking to action and impact.
- Strong critical thinking, consensus-building and influencing skills.
- Ability to build strategic networks and partnerships with internal stakeholders.
- Fully conversant in the use of Microsoft Office suite.

**Hours of Work**

We offer a compressed work schedule of 72 hours bi-weekly, Monday - Friday, 8:00 - 5:00, with a biweekly regular day off (RDO).

**REMOTE WORK**:
**Compensation**

$79,053-$97,296 per annum. In addition, the City of St. Albert offers a generous and comprehensive benefit package.

**Application Information**
- Applications will only be accepted to 10:00 p.m. MST on the closing date.
- Please note that the City conducts most interviews via video conference and will provide a link and instructions to applicants selected for an interview.

**Closing Statement

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