Policy and Project Specialist

3 weeks ago

Edmonton, Canada University of Alberta Full time

**Pharmacy Undergraduate Program**:

- Competition No.

**S100351363D1**
- Posting Date

**Aug 25, 2023**
- Closing Date

**Sep 10, 2023**
- Position Type

**Full Time - Operating Funded**
- Salary Range

**$56,040 to $76,820 per year**
- Grade

**09**
- Hours

**35**

**Internal applicants with relevant experience wishing to pursue a secondment are welcome and encouraged to apply.**

This position is a part of the Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA).

This position has a term length of 1 year plus a day and offers a comprehensive benefits package which can be viewed on our Benefits Overview page.

**Location - **Work primarily takes place at North Campus Edmonton. This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person.

**Working for the University of Alberta**
- The University of Alberta acknowledges that we are located on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our vibrant community._

The University of Alberta is teeming with change makers, community builders, and world shapers who lead with purpose each and every day. We are home to more than 40,000 students in 200+ undergraduate and 500+ graduate programs, over 13,000 faculty and staff, 260,000 alumni worldwide and have been recognized as one of Canada’s Greenest Employers for over a decade.

Your work will have a meaningful influence on a fascinating cross section of people—from our students and stakeholders, to our renowned researchers and innovators who are quite literally curing diseases, making discoveries and generating solutions that make the world healthier, safer, stronger, and more just.

**Working for the Department/Faculty
Serving as Alberta’s sole pharmacy school since 1914, the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences holds consistent rankings among the top three institutions in Canada, top 50 globally, and top 15 for global research. We offer high quality education and develop exceptional student pharmacists, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows and prepare our graduates for a variety of careers in pharmacy practice, research, and teaching. Our graduates go on to influence the continuously changing health care field through their leadership in the areas of policy, practice, and business.

**Position
Reporting to the Manager, Academic Programs and Student Services, this position leads special projects and initiatives in the faculty relating to governance and policies impacting the undergraduate programs. Throughout the updating of faculty policies and procedures, the incumbent with lead focus groups and conduct evaluation of proposals shared with faculty, staff, and students and integrate feedback to ensure sufficient faculty support. The incumbent will also conduct a review of institutional best practices for governance policies and procedures at the faculty level including reviewing the current faculty policies and procedures and making proposals to update them.

**Duties
**Special Projects, Policy Development, and Strategic Initiatives**
- Leads special projects, policy development and strategic initiatives for the academic programs and student services department.
- Conducts stakeholder engagement, consultation, and evaluation for all projects, policies, and strategic initiatives under their development.
- Identifies, generates, assesses, and develops new ideas into feasible initiatives that align with faculty strategic and long-term objectives.
- Prioritizes project initiatives to support long-term strategic objectives.
- Drafts policies and procedures to go through the appropriate governance channels (ex: Faculty Council, GFC, Calendar) following consultation.
- Ensures that all proposals comply with University and faculty regulations and requirements including national accreditation standards.

**Governance Initiatives**
- Reviews policy manuals of other CHS faculties and relevant professional programs (ex: Law) at the UofA.
- Reviews current state of documented faculty policies and identifies gaps and required updates that exist in the documentation of faculty policies and makes recommendations to faculty leadership about which policies need development and updating.
- Working with faculty leadership to undertake proposals for new and amendments to existing faculty policies.
- Conducts relevant stakeholder engagement based on the scope of the policy (ex: including: faculty, staff, and students).

**Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum undergraduate degree. Masters degree preferred
- Minimum of five years of experience working in post-secondary with substantive experience with advising, admissions, appeals, and other faculty or UofA specific policies and procedures relating to the aforementioned topics.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with faculty leaders and with team members from a variety of disciplines is required.
- Excellent communication (oral and written), intercultu

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