Policy Coordinator

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 63508
Ministry: Mental Health and Addiction
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: October 17, 2024
Classification: Program Services 2

**Salary**: $2,345.14 to $3,076.28 bi-weekly ($61,208 - $80,291/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**:
Reporting to the Manager, Compassionate Intervention, the Policy Coordinator coordinates and tracks the branch's projects (e.g., branch-led projects and cross-government projects in which the branch participates) and provides updates on the collective progress of projects, associated committees and any emerging issues.

This role contributes to the management of grants and contracts. The position also raises awareness to emerging issues based on monitoring project progress (e.g., impending deadlines, status of deliverable submissions and approvals), which informs project resource allocation and decision-making.

The Policy Coordinator also works with branch staff on research projects (e.g., literature reviews, compiling and summarizing data and information for committees, developing graphic representations) that support implementation of the Alberta Recovery Model, related committee work, and the development of briefing notes and responses to Action Requests.

This role will:

- Manage grants and contracts to support innovation across the addiction and mental health system in Alberta.
- Track and monitor projects and associated workplans to inform project decisions.
- Support the coordination of multi-stakeholder committees to advance strategy implementation objectives.
- Provide various research services.

**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:
This work reflects all APS Competencies with a focus on the following:
**Drive for Results**
- Sets goals and prioritizes work to accomplish them. Follows through on tasks and reports on progress. Proactively provides suggested actions and asks for guidance to determine the best course of action when lacking all the information or where there are multiple priorities.**Creative Problem Solving**
- Breaks down straightforward problems into manageable components to identify what needs to be done. Contributes ideas for how work can be done differently to solve common problems.**Agility**
- Asks questions. seeks clarification and assesses how things will be different when change is introduced or anticipated. Is open to new or diverse ideas and to doing things in a new way.**Develop Networks**
- Effectively helps and follows through on inquiries, requests and concerns from colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
- Informs key stakeholders of relevant information in a timely manner.

**Qualifications**:
A University degree in a related field (e.g., political science, economics, public policy/administration, health-related discipline).

Equivalencies may be considered: 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.

Required experience:
Completing research projects

The following will be considered assets:
Experience managing grants.

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**Notes**:
Hours of work are 36.25 weekly, Monday to Friday.

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