Emerging Technologies Strategist

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES STRATEGIST

**INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES**

**Competition No.** 25.09.241

**CATEGORY**

**SALARY**

**CLOSING DATE**
- Full-Time Continuing (35 hours per week)
- MSA Band H (Steps 1-8): $45.312 - $65.907 per hour. $82,467 - $119,951 per annum (Based on 35 hours per week).
- September 26, 2025

**About Us**:

- MacEwan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton’s diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Métis people, MacEwan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, MacEwan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement. We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.

Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 19,000 full
- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, MacEwan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

**Opportunity**:
Key responsibilities include:

- Analyzing the existing institutional environment to understand a range of short-term/emerging to long-term use cases in technologies and makes recommendations to address these challenges;
- Continuously identifying, researching, analyzing and evaluating emerging technologies, trends, breakthroughs, disruptors, etc., and assessing their potential impact on teaching, learning, research, and operational processes;
- Collaborating and consulting with institutional leaders, academic and administrative units to understand their operational and strategic needs, provide technical expertise and strategic insights to identify opportunities, new initiatives and potential impacts for emerging technology solutions;
- Creating a decision-making framework with clear processes for project intake, review, and approval of emerging technology-related initiatives, ensuring they are evaluated for ethical, security, and compliance risks before approval and implementation;
- Evaluating the feasibility and viability of proposed solutions, considering factors such as technical constraints, resource availability, budgetary considerations, risk assessments and alignment with institutional goals;
- Creating tactical plans for adopting emerging technologies that have the potential to benefit the university and support the university’s strategic direction and institutional priorities;
- In consultation with the Director, Cyber Security & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), developing policies, processes, standards and best practices to ensure consistency and effectiveness in the planning and utilization of emerging technologies across the institution while also ensuring alignment with the strategic direction of the university;
- Partnering with legal, the privacy office, and IT security to ensure legal compliance and data protection across all emerging technology initiatives;
- Building and maintaining relationships with key technology vendors, provincial and federal collaborative bodies (e.g. CANARIE, Cybera, CUCCIO Special Interest Groups, Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc.);
- Engaging with external organizations and participating in industry events to keep abreast of technological developments, as well as how emerging technologies have been adopted;
- Leading initiatives to increase digital literacy, promoting fluency with emerging technologies and fostering institutional readiness for adoption of emerging technologies using change management frameworks;
- Researching solutions for MacEwan University’s research technology needs, assessing efficacy, and making recommendations on new technologies and systems in order to support MacEwan’s growing research programs;
- Maintaining detailed knowledge of the research community within Canada, including the various agencies and services within Canada that support academic research, and how to access specialized technological services and resources that support the Canadian research community;
- Coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT) activities with end-users to validate the functionality, usability, and performance of the developed solution; and
- Creating mechanisms such as KPIs and ROI to test, audit and validate the data integrity of computing systems and confirm that the s