Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Program Lead

6 months ago

Halifax, Canada Province of Nova Scotia Full time

**Department**:Advanced Education

**Location**:HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**:Term

**Union Status**:NSGEU - NSPG

**Closing Date**:29-Mar-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

**About Us**:
The Department of Advanced Education (AE) works in collaboration with its partners to help ensure Nova Scotia has a:

- Student-centered post-secondary education system where all learners thrive.
- High-quality, relevant, accountable, and sustainable post-secondary education system.
- Post-secondary education system that advances excellence and equity in research and innovation.

AE is also committed to ensuring equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility are the foundation for Nova Scotia’s post-secondary system and these lenses are applied into our policy, funding and strategic guidance for the system.

AE has approximately 70 employees and has oversight responsibility over the ten universities and the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) and regulates over 40 private career colleges and ten language schools. The Department is also responsible for administrating the Canada Student Loan Program and the Nova Scotia Student Assistance Program, which provide financial assistance to students to enable them to obtain a post-secondary education.

This position will support the Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Division in the Strategy, Policy and Partnerships Branch of the Department of Advanced Education. The Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Division oversees strategic direction for the post-secondary education system including strategy development, partnership engagement and funding for research and innovation.

If you want to join a dynamic organization, we have an exciting opportunity for you to explore as a Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Program Lead (Program Administration Officer 4).

**About Our Opportunity**:
We’re looking for someone that thrives on shaping and delivering strategic and innovative solutions. Reporting to the Director, Strategy, Partnerships, and Innovation, you will work with the Manager of Research and Evidence as well as our partners: post-secondary institutions, government departments, agencies, boards and commissions, municipalities and crown corporations as well as key organizations in the health, education, research and innovation sectors.

As the Strategy, Partnership and Innovation Program Lead you be responsible for providing specialized program administration or management work for one or more strategic, research and innovation programs with impacts across the province. Responsibilities include overall administration and coordination of programs offered directly by a department or indirectly through various organizations throughout the province. You will be responsible for identifying and designing evaluations and planning for future direction of strategic, research and innovation programs and policies. You will also support the review and evaluation proposals requiring government support.

You will be responsible to track, measure, and report on status, risks, issues, and opportunities related to strategic, research and innovation programs (provide regular reports and updates weekly, monthly etc.). You will facilitate discussions with team members to develop strategies and action plans based on emerging opportunities and challenges.

**Primary Accountabilities**:

- Manages and delivers required outcomes for one or more programs, offered directly by a department or indirectly through various organizations throughout the province, while reporting to senior colleagues.
- Administers Act(s) and/or its regulations in the province, and may perform and exercise any of the powers, privileges, duties, and functions of the Minister as specified in the legislation and the designation.
- Administer grants and assistance programs for strategic, research or innovation programs and projects.
- Identifies and designs evaluations and planning for future direction of programs and policies for post-secondary institutions. Activities include program(s) development, business analysis, providing advice and policy recommendations, and may include the resource and capacity management of direct and indirect program resources.
- Responsible for reviewing and evaluating proposals from post-secondary institutions that require government support and providing sound, evidence-based recommendations. This includes data analysis, use of statistical software where applicable and development of data visualizations, dashboards and prepares knowledge translation products to communicate findings with decision makers.
- Develops and/or delivers a plan for significant aspects of internal and external communications with guidance from senior colleagues. This includes ongoing monitoring and reporting of programs and providing processes and tools to provide the required information for inclusion in reports.
- Identifies shortcomings and policy incoherence and makes suggestions for i

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