Investment Opportunity Analyst

**Job Information** Job Requisition ID: 63398 Ministry: Jobs, Economy and Trade Location: Edmonton or Calgary Full or Part-Time: Full Time Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week Permanent/Temporary: Permanent Scope: Open Competition Closing Date: October 11, 2024 Classification: Program Services 3 Market Adjustment (023PSAMA) **Salary**: $2,626.89 to $3,448.73 bi-weekly ($68,561 - $90,011/year) **Ministry of Jobs, Economy, and Trade** The Ministry of Jobs, Economy and Trade (JET) enhances Alberta's competitive advantage by creating the conditions that will help more Albertans prosper. This includes delivering policies and programs that grow and diversify the economy; attracting and developing a highly skilled workforce; and promoting safe, fair and healthy workplaces. Economic Strategy and Investment The Economic Strategy and Investment Division is focused on ensuring strategies and related policies are developed with a broad economic lens and line of sight toeconomic growth and job creation. The division leverages stakeholder intelligence, robust economic principles and advanced data analytics to formulate effective strategies that support job creating investments in Alberta. The Economic Intelligence and Investment Services Branch supports the work of the Economic Strategy and Investment Division. **Role Responsibilities**: Join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in securing Alberta’s economic future In this position, you will help promote Alberta as the best place in the world to invest. Reporting to the Manager of Investment Opportunity Analysis, the Investment Opportunity Analyst (IOA) collates data, information and intelligence to assess investment opportunities, continually improves tools and processes to support job creating investments, and coordinates with partner organizations. This work shapes and supports the implementation of major government priorities to attract investment in support of a stronger provincial economy. **The Investment Opportunity Analyst**: - Is responsible for coordinating and facilitating collaboration forums that bring together key investment attraction ecosystem partners. This position is key to establishing and maintaining JET's leadership in the investment ecosystem in providing service to investors, delivering an integrated approach engaging JET, other ministries, Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC), municipalities and other facilitators of investment, such as the Government of Canada, and Invest in Canada, to coordinate pathfinding services, policies and cooperation mechanisms. - This position works in close cooperation with a wide variety of internal and external partners to coordinate the attraction of business, jobs and capital to the province by providing client service delivery excellence to key stakeholders in the Investment and Growth Community of Practice (CoP). The role will establish and maintain influence to coordinate, where appropriate, resources within and external to the ministry to bring to bear specific expertise required to advance investment in Alberta. - This position undertakes the development of plans, processes and data management systems to support the monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the Investment Opportunity Evaluation Unit's progress towards strategic priorities related to the investment and growth of the Alberta economy. The position leverages the findings from the evaluation process to encourage adaptive management and continuous improvement to achieve identified outcomes. The incumbent will facilitate a culture of data management and reporting that ensures programs and services increase investment maximizing economic opportunities across Alberta. Please **APS Competencies**: Competencies are behaviours that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. This link will assist you with understanding competencies: - **Drive for Results.** Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes; commits to what is good for Albertans and reaches goals consistent with APS direction. - **Develop Networks.** This role requires significant investment in relationships across government, as well as with external organizations and other orders of government. The IOA must ensure that potential investors are connected to all the resources and support required to achieve a successful investment. - **Agility.** You will be required to operate in a high pressure, high-profile environment driven by tight deadlines and the need to pivot and/or react quickly to emerging issues. This position will need to balance varied and changing requirements while meeting deadlines. - **Creative Problem Solving.** You will often be presented with new situations where there is no "road map" or preexisting template for how to tackle them. **Qualifications**: University graduation in Business Administration, Economics, Commerce, Public Policy, Communications, or International Relations or in a related field plus 2 years progressively responsible re