Policy Analyst

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 64839
Ministry: Energy and Minerals
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent and Temporary
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: December 18, 2024
Classification: Program Service 3

**Salary**: $2,626.89 to $3,448.73 bi-weekly ($68,561.83- $90,011.85/year)

The Ministry of Energy and Minerals is responsible for sustaining the interests of Albertans through the stewardship and responsible development of energy and mineral resource system.

The Energy Policy Division is responsible for energy, mines, and minerals policy development and program design. It engages with a wide variety of resource development partners including various levels of government, industry, and a wide spectrum of Alberta communities and Indigenous Peoples.

The Resource Development Policy Branch under the Energy Policy Division leads sub-surface tenure, royalty, and regulatory policy development across Alberta’s upstream subsurface natural resources sectors. The sectors include oil sands, oil and gas, coal, minerals, geothermal, and subsurface injection (i.e., oilfield disposal, and carbon sequestration).

**Role Responsibilities**:
Are you an analytical person who enjoys learning, understanding systems, and identifying areas for improvement? Do you thrive in engaging with internal and external teams and stakeholders to achieve business goals? If so, a Policy Analyst role in the Royalty Policy Team or Regulatory Systems Team, under the Resource Development Policy Branch, may be the perfect fit for you.

The Policy Analyst, Resource Development Policy this position supports the development of initiatives and policies to assist Alberta in ensuring the continued prosperity, competitiveness, and development of the province’s vast energy resources.

In this role, the Policy Analyst will amongst other duties perform:

- Policy Review and implementation: Support Sub-surface energy and mineral policy development across Alberta's downstream and emerging resources sectors, leasing and maintaining crown mineral petroleum and natural gas rights as well as policies related to calculating, assessing, and reconciling revenues from natural gas, conventional oil, oil sands, natural gas liquids, coal, and other metallic and industrial minerals. Analyze legislative and regulatory framework related to energy and mineral resources, and subsurface reservoir tenures.
- Research & Advisory: Independently conduct market analysis and research, planning, and provide recommendations to support policy development, decision-making and legislative commitments.
- Project Co-ordination: Co-ordinate key initiatives and projects participated in by the Division or Branch. Schedule, document and track project updates and activities and ensure timely reporting to branch leadership.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Participate in meetings and workshops with stakeholders and evaluation of stakeholder responses considering recommendations. Participate in joint government - industry meetings and taskforces within the oil and natural gas industry ensuring that discussions and proposals are consistent with policies and regulations of the department. Support other units within the branch as needed.
- Reporting: Prepare high quality internal discussion papers, reports, and briefing materials to facilitate decision-making, public engagement, and stakeholder communication.

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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.
- **Systems Thinking**: This position takes a long-term view towards the organization’s objectives, seeks stakeholder perspectives, and anticipates outcomes and potential impacts in fulfilling this role’s responsibilities.
- **Agility**: This position is required to remain aware of changing government priorities/policies and support major projects or policy development. Must think pro-actively and readily adapt leading practices into everyday role.
- **Drive for Results**: This position must possess a strong focus on achieving organizational objectives which are consistent with APS direction while maintaining accountability to each other and external stakeholders.
- **Develop Networks**: This position must proactively build, leverage, and grow networks and relationships across divisions and varying groups of stakeholders, to collect perspectives and facilitate communication.
- **Creative Problem Solving**: This role must be able to access appropriate resources quickly and develop approaches that ensure timely and accurate responses. Must be able to bring right people together to understand challenges and perspectives and find solutions to meet their needs

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