Policy Advisor

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 72280
Ministry: Justice
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Temporary - one year
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: June 19, 2025
Classification: Program Services 3 Market Adjustment

**Salary**: $2,626.89 to $3,448.73 bi-weekly ($68,561 - $90,011/year)

The Court and Justice Services (CJS) Division provides a wide range of resolution and court services for people involved in legal disputes. In collaboration with the courts of Alberta, Court and Justice Services provides various programs and services including educating and helping Albertans finding solutions for legal issues, navigating the court system, offering programs at no cost or a nominal charge, and administrative support to all courts in Alberta.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Are you passionate about public safety and policy development? Join SafeRoads Alberta as a Policy Advisor and play a key role in creating evidence-based strategies that make a real difference in the lives of Albertans every day.

As a Policy Advisor, you will be working with the Senior Policy Advisor, SafeRoads Alberta. You will develop policy recommendations in the assigned area of responsibility. You will manage and provide expertise required to ensure quality policy advice is delivered in a timely manner to the Supervisor, Management, Branch, Ministry staff, the Minister and Cabinet, while keeping the supervisor fully informed and obtaining necessary approvals.

Pro-active and strategic policy development is required to support the Ministry's requirement of ongoing enhancement and changes to the Provincial Administrative Penalties Act (PAPA) and its regulations, Traffic Safety Act and its regulations, education programs, training programs and projects. This work is completed within a provincial, national and international context.

The main responsibilities include but not limited to are:

- Policy development: develops and recommends policy initiatives or responses to ensure quality policy advice is delivered in a timely manner to the Senior Policy Advisor, Branch, Ministry officials, and/or the Minister and Cabinet within the framework of SafeRoads Alberta and the Ministry's organizational structure.
- Analysis - prepares advisory notes, reports, discussion papers, and specific strategies or recommendations relating to the Branch and/or the Ministry's mandates, using accepted analytical techniques or methods and procedures within the Branch, Ministry, legislative, and regulatory framework.
- Ministry Representation - as part of the Branch, initiates activities and discussions through collaborative efforts and stakeholders to ensure the Branch/Ministry policies and interests are represented, protected, or advanced within the framework of the Branch and Ministry's organizational structure.
- Scanning and networking - determines situations that should be reviewed and analyzed for potential impact on policies of the Branch, Ministry, and the Government by scanning and reviewing internal and external information sources.

**Role Responsibilities cont.**:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

- Knowledge of the Traffic Safety Plan, the Traffic Safety Act and its regulations, and the Provincial Administrative Penalties Act (PAPA) and its regulations.
- Understands how to develop and implement policy, program and legislation within the Government of Alberta (GoA) context.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, listening, and facilitation skills with the ability to network, build and maintain working relationships with the Ministry, other government and stakeholders and partners.
- Works within the confidentiality restrictions that are necessary due to the sensitivity of issues within the GoA.
- Researches, collects, and analyses data and information from various sources has ability to distinguish credible sources.

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**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**: You consider the interrelationships among various aspects of an approach including how they relate to other programs or areas.
- **Creative Problem Solving**: You assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solution.
- **Agility**: You anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.
- **Drive for Results**: You identify underlying causes for success or lack of success which may or may not involve self and takes action to ensure future success.
- **Develop Networks**: You proactively build network