Information Services Manager

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 62395
Ministry: Environment and Protected Areas
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 22, 2024
Classification: Manager, Zone 2

**Salary**: $3,241.74 to $4,362.44 bi-weekly ($84,609 - $113,859/year)

The Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas is dedicated to preserving Alberta’s natural environment through proactive stewardship, sustainable resource management, and the protection of air, water, land, and biodiversity. Our mission is to lead environmental policy and program development that ensures a healthy environment for present and future generations.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Are you passionate about leading environmental data and information management? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can shape critical information systems that support sustainable environmental practices? If so, this may be the perfect role for you

As the Information Services Manager, you will oversee and guide environmental data stewardship within the Ministry of Environment and Protected Areas. This unique role manages the content, promotes governance and excellence, and influences the development and improvement of environmental information systems that inform the government as well as its partners, stakeholders, and all citizens.

You will lead a team of technical specialists, ensuring that vital environmental data related to Alberta’s air, water, land, and biodiversity is handled efficiently, maintained to the highest quality standards, and readily accessible to inform analysis, decision-making, and public reporting.

In this role, you will be at the forefront of environmental information management, driving the development of cloud-based solutions and making big data more accessible. Your strategic decisions will help shape the direction of these systems while meeting regulatory requirements and achieving organizational goals, such as those related to water quality, biodiversity habitats, or air emissions.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead and mentor teams of environmental data specialists responsible for stewardship and distribution of environmental information.
- Oversee and manage content within Alberta’s environmental information management systems, ensuring data quality, governance, and accessibility.
- Develop and enhance local data warehouses and emerging cloud-based technologies to support regulatory and environmental goals.
- Ensure seamless data integration, governance, and quality assurance across systems.
- Engage with diverse stakeholders including government agencies, businesses, Indigenous organizations, and the public to promote data transparency and innovation.
- Provide strategic leadership on environmental data management, ensuring compliance with information management policies, legislation, and standards.

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.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Develop Networks**: Leverages relationships to build input and perspective:

- Looks broadly to engage stakeholders.
- Open to perspectives towards long-term goals.
- Actively seeks input into change initiatives.
- Maintains stakeholder relationships.

**Agility**: Identifies and manages required change and the associated risks:

- Identifies alternative approaches and supports others to do the same.
- Proactively explains impact of changes.
- Anticipates and mitigates emotions of others.
- Anticipates obstacles and stays focused on goals.
- Makes decisions and takes action in uncertain situations and creates a backup plan.

**Driver for Results**:Works to remove barriers to outcomes, sticking to principles:

- Forecasts and proactively addresses project challenges.
- Removes barriers to collaboration and achievement of outcomes.
- Upholds principles and confronts problems directly.
- Considers complex factors and aligns solutions with broader organization mission.

**Systems Thinking**:Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them:

- Takes holistic long-term view of challenges and opportunities.
- Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives.
- Works towards actions and plans aligned with APS values.
- Works with others to identify areas for collaboration.

**Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, computer science, or a related field.
- 3 years of experience managing content throughout its lifecycle; developing, maintaining, and enhancing data and information systems; leading data specialist teams and multi-stakeholder projects; building networks;