Policy Analyst

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 75373
Ministry: Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: October 9, 2025
Classification: Program Services 2

**Salary**: $2,345.14 to $3,076.28 bi-weekly ($61,208 - $80,290/year)

The Ministry of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration is responsible for delivering programs and policies to support a diverse workforce, promote safe, fair and healthy workplaces and attract skilled workers. We lead the efforts to grow Alberta’s economy and are responsible for coordinating Alberta’s Recovery Plan by supporting Alberta’s entrepreneurs and job creators, attracting investment, growing trade, strengthening Alberta’s key sectors and ensuring Alberta has an innovative and competitive business environment.

The Economic Strategy and Investment Division is focused on ensuring strategies and related policies are developed with a broad economic lens and line of sight to economic growth and job creation. The division leverages stakeholder intelligence, robust economic principles and advanced data analytics to formulate effective strategies that support job creating investments in Alberta.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Manager of Intergovernmental and Cross Ministry Strategy, the Policy Analyst supports the development, integration and execution of intergovernmental strategies and initiatives to support economic growth, diversification, investment competitiveness and job creation in Alberta.

In your role as the Policy Analyst, you will:

- Support intergovernmental relations related to broad economic strategy and industries (e.g. briefing materials to support engagement with the federal government on economic priorities).
- Provide ongoing intelligence of intergovernmental trends and programs, and support collaboration with cross-government partners (e.g. federal economic development program updates and analysis of impact to Alberta, support cross-government tables).
- Provide cross-ministry intergovernmental economic strategy support (e.g. cross-team coordination and input).
- Support Federal/Provincial/Territorial activities related to the department's economic agenda.
- Collaborate and coordinate with teams across the department to support policy projects and initiatives.
- Support strategic initiatives and policy projects that are focused on addressing economic challenges facing Alberta.
- Support the unit and the division to accomplish operational goals.

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

- **Build Collaborative Environments**: Works in an open honest manner with colleagues: Creates sharing opportunities, actively shares, accepts and listens to others, recognizes conflict, respects and discusses opinions openly, supports group even to learn from mistakes, recognizes differing interpretations.
- **Creative Problem Solving**: Focuses on continuous improvement and increasing breadth of insight: Asks questions to understand a problem, looks for new ways to improve results and activities, explores different work methods and what made projects successful; shares learning, collects breadth of data and perspectives to make choices.
- **Develop Network**: Maintains collegial internal relationships and understands external network: Seeks to understand perspectives and needs of others, follows through, has integrity and respect for others, helps and follows through, keeps key stakeholders informed; is professional and respectful.
- **Systems Thinking**: Considers inter-relationships and emerging trends to attain goals:Seeks insight on implications of different options, analyzes long-term outcomes, focus on goals and values, identifies unintended consequences.
- **Agility**: Works in a changing environment and takes initiative to change: takes opportunities to improve work processes, anticipates and adjusts behaviour to change, remains optimistic, calm and composed in stressful situations, seeks advice and support to change appropriately, works creatively within guidelines.

**Qualifications**:
University graduation in Political Science, Economics, Public Administration or in a related field; or equivalent as described below.

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

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

**The following knowledge or experiences are considered assets**:

- Understanding of the Canadian federal s