Assistant Director, Project Management

2 weeks ago

Edmonton, Canada Government of Alberta Full time

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 64534
Ministry: Communications and Public Engagement
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: December 2, 2024
Classification: Manager Zone 2

**Salary**: $3,241.74 - $4,362.44 bi-weekly ($84,609.41 - $113,859.68/yearly)

Communications and Public Engagement (CPE) is the Government of Alberta’s full-service communications, public relations and marketing department. Its mandate is to enhance communications between Albertans and the Government of Alberta.

CPE’s expert staff provide specialized services across the spectrum of communications including writing, social media, media relations, event coordination, issues management, crisis communications, digital communications, advertising, marketing, graphic design, public engagement and translation services.

The department staffs communications branches in all government ministries of government, along with a central operations department. For information about CPE, visit our website at

**Role Responsibilities**:
If you’re a details oriented, multi-tasker with a keen eye for the big picture, the Assistant Director, Project Management role at CPE may be for you.

In this role, you’ll oversee a team of project management specialists, and work with internal clients on procuring external marketing, research and communications services when required. You’ll manage traffic intake for all CPE marketing and communications service requests and triage the work to the appropriate CPE teams to complete the service.

The assistant director is responsible for strategic project planning and oversight, particularly for large, and often complex cross-ministry initiatives. Using your strong project management skillset, you keep public-facing communications and marketing projects on-time, and on-budget. Your responsibilities include:

- With a team of strategic project managers, developing a project management and reporting system. You will provide regular progress updates to senior managers and clients.
- Overseeing the allocation of project resources ensuring that all projects have the right people at the right time with the technical resources, strategy, and expertise required to succeed.
- Identifying and mitigating risks and issues that could impact project success.
- Overseeing CPE procurement processes for projects and campaigns and managing standing offer competitive bids by external vendors.

Please

**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.
- **Systems Thinking -** Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts across inter-related areas and factors this into planning. Seeks to understand a range of stakeholder perspectives and how they interrelate.
- **Creative Problem Solving -** Continuously engages others to scope and solve issues and find the best solutions. Encourages debate and idea generation from across the organization. Assesses and addresses risks while providing guidance to move new ideas forward.
- **Agility -** Anticipates obstacles to change and thinks ahead about next steps. Stays focused on goals despite pressure and stress. Proposes a clear rationale for change, offers alternative solution(s) and identifies the benefits.
- **Drive for Results -** Clarifies objectives and taps into a variety of available resources within the organization; ensuring that roles and contributions are clear.
- **Develop Self and Others - **Communicates regularly with stakeholders, setting up opportunities for mutual sharing of information. Maintains relationships even when no specific project/initiative is underway.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Qualifications**:
University graduation in a related field to the position, ideally with project management focus, supplemented by 4 years progressively responsible management experience.

**Equivalencies** (to be considered on the basis of):

- 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or
- 1 year of experience for 1 year of education

**Assets**:

- Certification in Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Extensive experience in project management and evaluation, with a proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale projects.
- Strong client consultation, planning and project management skills, including project and budget administration for procurement of services and solutions.
- Excellent political acumen

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