Manager, Strategic Coordination

7 days ago


Edmonton, Canada Government of Alberta Full time

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 57704
Ministry: Jobs, Economy and Trade
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: May 20, 2024
Classification: Manager Zone 2 (M41Z2)

**Salary**: $3,147.32 to $4,235.37 bi-weekly ($82,145 - $110,543/year)

Jobs, Economy and Trade supports economic development, promotes trade and investment, attracts skilled workers, leads childcare and promotes safe, fair and healthy workplaces. This also includes supporting Alberta entrepreneurs, businesses, and communities to drive growth and job creation and support the unique economic development needs of Alberta’s various regions.

The Regional Economic Development Policy unit is responsible for identifying and advancing economic development policies, strategies, and programmatic initiatives focused on supporting economic growth and diversification for Alberta's regions.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Director of Regional Economic Development Policy, the Manager is responsible for leading and managing economic development policies, strategies, and initiatives focused on supporting and growing Alberta's economic regions. This work is critical to inform GoA on regional economic development issues, collaboration best practices, related risk factors, economic development opportunities, and ultimately informs strategic decision-making and program/policy development.

As Manager, you are responsible for building and maintaining collaborative relationships with a wide diversity of stakeholders. This includes representing the interests of the department in engagements with external audiences, and on interdepartmental and cross-ministry teams. In this role you will be responsible to maintain an awareness of the broad outcomes and priorities of the department to ensure issues are addressed in a coordinated and consistent manner. This requires extensive problem solving, agility, systems thinking, decision-making, analytical, evaluative, creative thinking and relationship building skills, and a drive for results. The successful incumbent must be able to take the initiative and proactively identify issues and develop recommended options for their resolution and carrying policy recommendation to completion.

In your role as a Manager, Strategic Coordination you will be responsible for:

- Providing project management leadership and oversight on policy and analysis-related projects and key Ministry priority deliverables, such as strategies and reports.
- Leading a team of policy professional in the provision of research, jurisdictional and environmental scanning, strategic policy and program analysis, issue and option identification, and evaluation.
- Providing input and recommendations relating to issues, opportunities, and challenges associated with regional economic development policies, programs, and functions.
- Participating in cross-ministry committees, teams, and working groups, providing regional economic development perspectives and expertise to ensure thoroughness and consistency in policy and program development.
- Engaging and building collaborative relationships with senior representatives both within the Ministry and cross-ministry on regional economic development issues.
- Leading, coaching and mentoring others to achieve business plan goals.

**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:
In this role, you will contribute to our team by demonstrating the following behavioral competencies:

- **Creative Problem Solving**: Helps manage the team's research projects that support economic development policy priorities, which are multi-faceted and may not have precedents and is able to use planning skills, analytical and creative thinking to arrive at innovative solutions.
- **Develop Networks**: Builds relationships by following through on commitments, demonstrating integrity and respect for others; informs key stakeholders of relevant information in a timely manner; seeks and applies the perspectives and needs of colleagues and stakeholders.
- **Drive for Results**: Sets and accomplishes goals and priorities; factors in complexity of issues and aligns plans based on government direction; removes barriers to collaboration; provides informed advice.
- **Develop Self and Others**: Manages a team and provides effective guidance, support and professional development. Must provide timely and constructive feedback to ensure strong performance and leverage strengths when assigning roles.
- **Systems Thinking**: Considers inter-relationships among initiatives and relations to department priority and expected project



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