Director, Primary Prevention

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 71290
Ministry: Health
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: June 5, 2025
Classification: M42Z2

**Salary**: $4,402.49 to $5,590.52 bi-weekly ($114,904 - $145,912/year)

**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:

- Systems Thinking: Integrates broader context into planning. Plans for how current situation is affected by broader trends.
- Creative Problem Solving: Works in open teams to share ideas and process issues. Uses wide range of techniques to break down problems.
- Build Collaborative Environments: Involves a wide group of stakeholders when working on outcomes. Involves stakeholders and shares resources.
- Agility: Proactively incorporates change into processes. Creates opportunities for improvement.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- The Director, Primary Prevention and Wellness reports to the ED of the Health Protection Branch (HPB) and provides leadership and direction to a team of individuals responsible for the development and communication of policy, legislation, strategic advice, analysis and issues management related to a broad range of public health issues concerning health promotion and wellness, cancer screening, injury prevention, maternal and infant health, tobacco and vaping control, health impacts of cannabis legalization, sexually transmitted and blood borne infections and vulnerable womens health programming.

The position is responsible for directing team activites to achieve critical policy and operational outcomes, as well as anticipate and respond to challenging issues on disparate health promotion and wellness topics. The position ensures internal and external clients receive sound advice and direction. The Director utilizes team resources effectively to research, analyze and provide strategic advice and policy alternatives in a fast paced, high profile department.

The Director, Primary Prevention and Wellness is responsible for:

- Issues Management: Independently and proactively assess current and potential issues within public health. Position must exercise considerable independent creativity and judgement making sure to fairly capture those issues that are brought forward to leadership.
- Project Management: Directing team members to create project templates, objectives, timelines, and budgets and direct projects from conception through to execution.
- Leading health/wellness promotion and chronic disease/injury prevention policy development for the Ministry that achieves government priorities, reflects international and national trends, and considers stakeholder input.
- Manage the grant process which provides a range of funding to recipients to advance health/wellness promotion and injury prevention in Alberta
- Policy and Legislative Development: Lead the development of legislative proposals with respect to the regulation of public health in Alberta. Can be asked to research and develop policy, create discussion papers, strategy documents, consultation tools and an implementation strategy.

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**Qualifications**:

- University graduation in a related field (Health or Social Services), supplemented by three years related experience (Public Health, Issues Management and Resolution, Policy, Legislation and Regulation Development, Strategic Planning, Facilitation, and/or Change Management). A Master’s degree preferred but not required.

Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

**Assets**:

- Experience with public health developments, political and legislative, in other jurisdictions and other countries.
- Extensive knowledge of policy analysis framework necessary for the development of policy recommendations, actions plans, and implementation strategies.
- Familiarity with Alberta’s health system key priorities, key trends, and development.
- Broad, sophisticated knowledge of Alberta’s public health system to provide relevant strategic advice.
- Experience in grant management with community based organizations.

**Preferred Skills**:

- Strong leadership, organizational, time, and project management skills.
- Strong political acumen.
- Excellent consultation and relationship skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, use of tact, diplomacy, and good judgement.
- Creative and innovative problem-solving skills in finding new solutions to policy, regulatory, operational, or relationship-issues.

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