Product Owner

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 61608
Ministry: Mental Health and Addiction
Location: Edmonton or Calgary
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Temporary (2 years)
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: September 12, 2024
Classification: Program Services 4 Market Adjustment

**Salary**: $2,757.39 to $3,604.17 bi-weekly ($71,968 - $94,069/year)

The department of Alberta Mental Health and Addiction is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction, including the development of, implementation, monitoring, and compliance with policy, legislation, and standards for mental health and addiction services, as well as proactive monitoring of substance use and mental health data to support system planning.

The Department works with the newly established Recovery Alberta, the new Canadian Centre of Recovery Excellence, and community service providers and partners to design and enhance Alberta’s new mental health and addiction system, leveraging policy, practice innovations and research and evaluation to enable the best possible outcomes for Albertans.

The Department works closely with other cross-government partners, external organizations, other Canadian provinces, and the Government of Canada to plan addiction and mental health service delivery.

The Department liaises with the Office of the Alberta Health Advocates and Alberta Health Services.

**Role Responsibilities**:
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Mental Health & Addiction as a Product Owner. This position is responsible for championing digital transformation and representing the Ministry within a product team. Reporting to the Manager Compassionate Intervention, the Product Owner will be a member of the Product Team and will be responsible for overall product strategy, ministry stakeholders, long-term vision for the product, and ministry processes and procedures to meet the business needs and champion the product to end users. This position also coordinates between the product team and program area staff to deliver technology solutions that enable cross-sector collaboration in strategic initiatives (e.g., Compassionate Intervention Legislation) in support of the Alberta Recovery Model. All work is conducted with the goal of ensuring Mental Health and Addiction’s interests and priorities are effectively represented and balanced with the needs of Albertans in addiction and mental health initiatives, projects, and activities. This position will primarily support the implementation of new legislation (e.g., Compassionate Intervention Legislation) and other priority projects through new digital services.

The system is multi-faceted, covering a breadth of topics and populations (e.g., addiction, mental health, Indigenous, youth, operating grants, research and innovation of services), with multiple stakeholders (e.g., community organizations, Recovery Alberta/Alberta Health Services, national organizations, advocacy groups), and connects to several other government portfolios (e.g., Infrastructure, Public Safety and Emergency Services, Justice, Technology and Innovation, Children’s Services, Community and Social Services).

This role will:

- In collaboration with the Ministry of Technology and Innovation, support the development and implementation of digital products to ensure they meet user and business needs. This includes redesigning operational processes, planning new service introductions, identifying barriers to change, and developing mitigation strategies. Additionally, supporting the evaluation of new legislation and priority projects to ensure effective outcomes and performance, and leading User Acceptance Testing while providing quality assurance.
- Champion agile and digital methodologies, provide status reports, monitor product progress metrics, and lead product demonstrations to various stakeholders.
- Lead and facilitate internal stakeholder engagement to determine essential input for collaborative projects and corporate processes, specifically, providing strategic advice to the Manager & Director, Policy and Program Development, collaborating with Ministry personnel on key initiatives, including business plans and annual reports, managing projects to deliver high-quality and sustainable outcomes, and supporting additional unit functions such as Action Request response development and processes, staff training, and performance evaluation.
- Conduct user-centric research to improve client and employee experiences and make recommendations to senior leadership.
- Contribute to replacing legacy systems by developing strategic roadmaps and plans for ongoing sustainability and collaborating with the Ministry of Technology and Innovation to ensure ongoing delivery of benefits to Albertans and staff.

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