Manager, Resource Development

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 69925
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: April 29, 2025
Classification: Manager Zone 2 ( M41Z2)

**Salary**: $3,339.00 to $4,493.32 bi-weekly ($87,147 - $117,275 /year)

**Ministry of Education**

Through safe and caring schools for all students, Alberta’s government is making life better by investing in education - one of the most important investments we can make in our future. The Ministry is responsible for: developing and evaluating curriculum; teacher development and certification; supporting students with diverse learning needs; funding and supporting school boards; First Nations, Métis and Inuit and Francophone education; and overseeing basic education policy and regulations.

**Learning and Teaching Resources Branch**

The Learning and Teaching Resources Sector contributes to the ongoing work of the Curriculum Division by ensuring the delivery, sustainability and scalability of authorized learning and teaching resources to support Alberta's provincial kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum. This sector provides a centralized model for learning and teaching resource identification, procurement, development, authorization and maintenance. To enable the sustainment and scalability of this work, the sector leads resource strategy, intellectual property and resource management services.

**Role Responsibilities**:
The Manager, Resource Development also oversees any projects that are part of the delivery of learning and teaching resources, provides advice to internal and external education stakeholders, collaborates with other teams to identify needs or gaps, helps to inform senior leadership on development and maintenance to enable informed decisions on priorities, estimated budget costs and trends and evolution of resource development. The position establishes and maintains strong communication and working relationships with key internal and external partners to ensure accurate and timely flow of information about learning and teaching resources.

**Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Director, this position leads the design, development and delivery of resources to support the K-12 curriculum that enables a scalable and sustainable approach to crown-owned resource collections. In this role, the position will:

- Focus on the delivery of learning and teaching resources to support piloting and implementation of K-12 provincial curriculum.
- Lead the development of learning and teaching resources, supporting the implementation of the K-12 curriculum (from pilot to updates/improvements to sunset if appropriate).
- Develop a plan for how to address these resource gaps and request and oversee the use of contingent (contract) labour if required.
- Manage various resource projects that will enhance the learning and teaching experience in Alberta's education system by ensuring that development includes inclusive, scalable and sustainable approaches.
- Oversee the maintenance of resources including but not limited to change to design, technology or usability.
- Collaborate with a large and diverse internal and external stakeholder community.
- Respond to action requests and other requests from leadership.

**Role Responsibilities Continued**:
The position is essential for managing a team and contributing to the management of the RDRA branch by:

- Leading and effectively managing team operations to ensure outcomes are delivered in accordance with business and operational plans.
- Leading the team in decision making regarding content, development processes and planning.
- Preparing department response materials, including briefings and correspondence related to resources to assist decision making processes.
- Leading the team on researching issues and gaps in resources.
- Overseeing the maintenance of resources that require attention to design, technology or usability.
- Providing leadership with advice and recommendations on emerging issues, opportunities and challenges. Developing and managing detailed project plans and leading complex projects.Other responsibilities include:

- Coordinating and enabling the team to achieve results in an effective, expeditious and productive manner.
- Fostering a collaborative, nimble and innovative culture.
- Providing recommendations and advice to inform decision-making by executive leaders and government officials. Working collaboratively with leaders across the unit, branch, sector and division to advance the goals and priorities of the division.Please

**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.

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