Director, Aps Learning Program Delivery

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 66943
Ministry: Public Service Commission
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: February 20, 2025
Classification: Senior Manager 2

**Salary**: $4,274.26 to 5,427.68 bi-weekly ($111,558- $141,662/year)

The Public Service Commission (PSC) provides human resources services to the Government of Alberta. The Learning and Development (L&D) Branch in the PSC provides leadership and direction for the delivery and design of learning and talent management programs, with the goal of ensuring these programs enable the Alberta Public Service (APS) workforce to achieve its goals.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Have you ever noticed a process and thought, “Things would work so much better if ”? Now is your chance to channel that energy with a team that supports the entire APS to perform at its best.

Reporting to the Executive Director of L&D, the Director of APS Learning Program Delivery leads change management to enhance delivery of L&D services. By streamlining processes and improving delivery infrastructure, the Director ensures approved L&D programming is implemented effectively, impactfully and sustainably.

As the Director of APS Learning Program Delivery, you will:

- Optimize operations - Identify opportunities to enhance efficiency and maximize the impact of available resources.
- Navigate governance - Ensure your great ideas are appropriately briefed and approved by formal and informal decision-makers.
- Manage change - Align program delivery with evolving organizational goals and policy frameworks while ensuring strong client relationships.
- Guide transitions - Support the introduction of new programming by establishing new processes and structures for successful execution.
- Support a high-performing team - Provide clear direction in uncertain situations and cultivate an environment where staff feel engaged and prepared for what’s next.

To be successful in this role, you need to:

- Be an APS problem-solver - You can quickly assess priorities, anticipate challenges, and develop practical solutions that work within APS policies and structures.
- Communicate with impact - You find creative ways to ensure that APS stakeholders, leadership, and team members are always well-informed and aligned on objectives.
- Adapt and drive progress - You balance long-term goals with day-to-day realities, adjusting plans as needed to keep momentum moving forward, even when there is lots on-the-go.
- Foster engagement and accountability - You create clarity for your team as things are changing, ensuring roles, timelines and expectations are well understood.
- Build trust and collaboration - You collaborate effectively, influence without authority, and bring the APS along with L&D’s evolving mandate.

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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 inter-relationships and emerging trends to attain goals.
Creative problem solving: Focuses on continuous improvement and increasing breadth of insight.
Build collaborative environments: Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict.

**Qualifications**:
Your cover letter and resume will be used in lieu of a writing assignment to assess your qualifications, including your written communication skills and your attention to detail.

To meet the requirements of the writing assignment, ensure your cover letter meets all of the following criteria:

- Includes a professional salutation;
- Identifies the relevant job opportunity;
- Is concise, without spelling/grammatical errors;
- Clearly identifies the number of years of experience you have working in a large, public sector organization, and how many of those years were in a management role; and
- Provides a clear and specific example of an initiative you spearheaded to improve the efficiency of your team.

Ensure your resume meets all of the following criteria:

- Includes starting and ending month & year of each role;
- Is concise, without spelling/grammatical errors;
- Has a clear, consistent layout that demonstrates your attention to detail; and
- Provides information about each role, using bullet points to clarify its relevance to the requirements of this job.

**Applications without a cover letter and resume that meet all of the above criteria will not be considered.**

Minimum recruitment standard: University graduation supplemented by seven years of progressively responsible experience.

**Equivalency**: Related education or experience is considered on the basis of:

- 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or
- 1 y