Director of Corporate Services

**Town of Taber**:
**Director of Corporate Services**:
**Job Type**
Management / Administration

**Organization**
Town of Taber

**Competition Number**
JP25-035

**Closing date**
**Nov 30, 2025**

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Working closely with the Organization Coordinator Team you set the strategic direction related to management of the Town of Taber’s internal services. You ensure the Town operates within the Municipal Government Act (MGA) and oversee the service areas of Financial Management (budgeting, financial reporting, resource management (including payroll), and ensuring financial stability and integrity), Centralized Procurement and Information Technology (providing IT support, managing computer systems, and ensuring data security).

NOTE: This position is undergoing transition, and this description contemplates current, proposed, and temporary accountabilities and reporting structure.

**WORK ENVIRONMENT**:

- Work is performed in an office with some meetings offsite.
- May be required to attend meetings and events outside of regular office hours as described in the responsibilities.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Position Accountabilities**:
The Director of Corporate Services is responsible for the following areas of focus, which are representative (not all-inclusive) of the position outcomes. Specific job functions include:
**_General:_**
- Ensuring scheduled review, revisions and recording of bylaws, policies, and procedures.
- Fostering an organizational culture that achieves the goals established by the Organization Coordination Team and a workplace and environment that is safe and welcoming.

**_Financial Services:_**
- Monitoring of the Town’s compliance with statutory requirements of the MGA and other applicable federal and provincial legislation, as well as Town of Taber’s bylaws and policies.
- Leading the Town’s multi-year budgeting (operational and capital) process, financial reporting (including annual financial plan, audits, and audited statements) and financial services.
- Developing and maintaining corporate policy relating to assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenditures of the Town that demonstrate effective management and control of the Town’s financial affairs and which satisfy reporting requirements.
- Providing recommendations to the CAO, Council, Boards and Commissions on matters relating to the investment of Town funds, including appropriate methods of securing required funds, cost analysis and recovery options, revenue generation, and issuance of debentures.
- Reviewing and monitoring insurable risks and hazards to which the Town is exposed by developing recommendations and policies that maintain insurance coverage as necessary.
- Developing and directing strategies and creating work plans consistent with the Council priorities, operational and capital budgets, and service review.
- Ensuring appropriate implementation and administration of employee payroll, benefit, and retirement plans, including review and analysis of benefit plans, trends, and cost containment.

**_Information Technology:_**
- Implementing systems to protect the security and operation of the Town’s operations, including equipment, network administration, cyber security, and electronic file systems.
- Appropriate research, analysis, inventory and maintenance of hardware and software systems to ensure cost effective allocation of financial and equipment resources.
- Establishing IT systems that effectively integrate organization-wide department functions with appropriate technological, software and hardware solutions to securely and reliably deliver Town services.

**_Leadership:_**
Conducts all interactions with a focus on the Town of Taber’s core values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Efficiency, Accountability and Professionalism.
- Builds a work environment and fosters a culture of belonging founded on individual and mutual respect and values.
- Applies a structured project planning and management approach to the creation and implementation of new processes, programs and operating systems, including new software systems.
- Leads, coaches, and inspires direct reports to achieve personal and professional levels of performance and success identified in individual, departmental and annual reviews.
- Positions change and transition in a positive, constructive way and executes on actions to implement effectively.
- Manages relationships and external partnerships with organizations such as community organizations, provincial and federal government counterparts, external auditors and agencies, legal counsel, etc.
- Attending governance & finance, council, board and committee meetings and presenting information, direction, reports, requests for decision and briefings as required.
- Building, leading, teaching and inspiring a team of professionals whose knowledge may exceed your own and who are motivated to deliver exceptional work.
- Leading department/employee adherence to the Town of Taber’s Health and Safety Policy, ensuring Occupatio