Policy Analyst

6 months ago

Halifax, Canada Province of Nova Scotia Full time

**Department**:Labour, Skills and Immigration

**Location**:HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**:Temporary

**Union Status**:NSGEU - NSPG

**Closing Date**:15-Mar-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

**About Us**:
The Department of Labour, Skills & Immigration (LSI) works to provide fairness, safety, and prosperity for all Nova Scotians by helping them live, learn, and work to their highest potential.

We have a staff of more than 500 employees working from offices throughout Nova Scotia. Together we are responsible for safety, labour standards, apprenticeship, immigration and population growth, and many other facets of everyday life.

Safety makes a difference in everyone’s lives. The LSI Safety Branch is the lead for achieving compliance in health and safety in workplaces, and technical safety of regulated equipment in public places.

**About Our Opportunity**:
The Research and Stats Officer (Policy Analyst) provides dedicated policy support to the Safety Branch and is accountable for identifying and analyzing policy issues and options arising from major strategic initiatives and business and operational plans in the branch.

As the Research and Statistics Officer, you will be responsible for conducting research, jurisdictional scans and developing briefing and issue analysis notes to support decision making. You will also coordinate the development of updates on progress of policy files in the branch. You will collaborate with internal and external partners and engage with jurisdictional counterparts on safety matters.

This is a temporary position created to specifically support policy work of the Technical Safety division of the Safety branch. The Technical Safety Division promotes safety in the province by administering acts and regulations that deal with public and mechanical safety, addressing equipment such as boilers and pressure vessels, elevators and lifts, amusement devices, electrical and fuel safety. The division exercises its regulatory authority using a range of compliance tools including certification, registration, licensing, permitting and inspections.

**Primary Accountabilities**:
Key Responsibilities include:

- Formulate policy and program recommendations and solutions based on expertise in research and analysis.
- Provide analysis of policy options and present summaries, analysis, recommendations, and reports on a variety of complex issues, programs and services.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and briefing materials for senior leadership.
- Lead the design of performance and system outcome measures, accountability reports and key performance indicators.
- Prepare high quality written documents that capture the essence of complex issues and distill that information into materials that can support decision making.
- Conduct best practice research on trends, impact analysis and tools that can be applied to analytics and options development.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
You have demonstrated research and analytical skills. You have strong communication skills both written and verbal, and well-developed presentation and facilitation skills. The role involves writing research papers, briefing notes, cabinet proposals and developing presentations, so strong writing skills are very important.

You are proficient using Microsoft Office programs, specifically with Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel and extremely comfortable with a wide variety of software and adept at learning new software packages.

While not required, it is considered an asset if you have previous experience in:

- Regulatory policy development
- Background and understanding of Technical Safety or previous experience working in this field.

We will assess the above qualifications and competencies using one or more of the following tools: Interview(s), reference checks, oral presentations, and written exercises.

**Equivalency**:
**Benefits**:
Based on the employment status and Union agreement, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as Health, Dental, Life Insurance, Pension, General Illness (Short and Long Term), Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. Click here to learn more about our various benefits offering and eligibility criteria.

**Additional Information**:
**What We Offer**:

- Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
- Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
- Countless career paths
- Department specific flexible working schedules

**Pay Grade**: PR 13

**Salary Range**: $2,543.38 - $3,091.70 Bi-Weekly

**Employment Equity Statement**:

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