Field Services Manager

1 month ago


Edmonton, Canada Government of Alberta Full time

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 63889
Ministry: Education
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: October 31, 2024
Classification: Manager Zone 2

**Salary**: $3,241.74 to $4,362.44 bi-weekly ($84,609 - $113,859/year)

Alberta Education supports students, parents, teachers and administrators from Early Childhood Services (ECS) through Grade 12. Share your talent, your leadership and your success as you shape the future of education in Alberta. The Ministry provides funding to over 300 provincial school authorities for ECS to Grade 12, within the Financial Services and Capital Planning Division.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Director, South Services Branch, the Field Services Manager leads a team in supporting the department, Minister of Education and several Kindergarten to Grade 12 school authorities including independent schools across a broad geographic area of the province. Within the context of legislation, regulations and policies, the Field Services Manager promotes innovation and system effectiveness; monitors and provides direction to school authorities including independent schools for compliance on planning, reporting and accountability/assurance requirements; and is accountable for ensuring school authority compliance.

The Field Services Manager also supports school authorities with issues management and fosters continuous improvement. This position handles highly confidential information and is relied on to exercise sound judgment when providing information to Ministry staff, stakeholders and the public. This leadership role strengthens connections between ministry priorities and school authority work in the service of several hundred thousand Kindergarten to Grade 12 students across the province of Alberta. This position is required to travel regularly within the province of Alberta for meetings with school authority leaders and stakeholders (the Field). Travel outside of the office ranges from 10%-20% of work time.

The position is responsible to perform the following tasks as a part of their role:

- Oversees and monitors 10 to15 school authorities and private schools within a broad geographic area of the province grounded by government and ministry legislation, regulations, policies, directives and procedures to ensure their effective management and operations so that students succeed in learning.
- Leads the annual evaluation and approval of Public, Separate, Charter, and Private (Independent) school authority Education Plans and Annual Education Results Reports.
- Leads the evaluation of Charter schools and charter renewals and recommends approval to the Minister, based on the Education Act and the Charter Schools Regulation.
- Provides leadership and guidance in the interpretation and implementation by school authorities of education-related legislation, regulations and policies and ministry programs and initiatives.
- Ensures school authority compliance and accountability when issues arise, including requiring a school authority to develop an improvement plan and holding the school authority accountable for compliance.
- Leads additional monitoring, recommending and implementing increasing consequences that are escalated with recommendations to the Director, Executive Director, Assistant Deputy Minister, Deputy Minister, and Minister as required. Recommended consequences can include recommending that the Minister cancel the accreditation of a school authority or that a school board be removed.
- Preparing and refining policy and decision-making advice that includes Action Requests and briefings to senior department officials and the Minister
- Reviewing and recommending changes to provincial policy, funding regulations, and standards documents issued by Field Services and other department areas
- Collaborating with other department areas to support communication with school authorities and stakeholder organizations on topics such as the roll out of system-wide initiatives.

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**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.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

- **Systems Thinking**:

- Considers the impact of strategies and changes on the work of clients, stakeholders, and team members and support organization vision and goals through strategic planning of tasks and considering relationships between different work approaches and their impact on different programs, divisions and ministries.
- **Creative Problem Solving**:

- Facilitate the creation of a work environment for generating and finding newer ideas to solve existing and potential problems
- **Build Collaborative Environments*


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