Library Legislative Advisor

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 64174
Ministry: Municipal Affairs
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
**Closing Date**: November 25, 2024
Classification: Program Services 4 Market Adjustment (024PSAMA)

**Salary**: $2,757.39 to $3,604.17 bi-weekly ($71,967 - $ 94,068 /year)

The Ministry of Municipal Affairs supports municipalities in providing well-managed, fiscally responsible, and accountable local government to Albertans. This includes administering municipal grant programs; delivering advisory and capacity-building supports; providing municipal services and managing public lands in the province’s three Special Areas; and overseeing the safety codes system in the province. The ministry also fosters stronger, safer communities across the province, and enables local governments to facilitate Alberta’s economic prosperity.

As part of this work, the ministry manages and provides support for the network of 223 municipal and intermunicipal library boards that provide public library service to Albertans, along with the seven library system boards that serve them.

**Role Responsibilities**:
The job is part of a team that provides professional support to the Ministry in the management and administration of the Libraries Act and Regulation, and that provides professional and consulting support to library trustees and staff in the delivery of public library service in Alberta.

**Responsibilities Include**:

- Coordinating the Plan of Service process to help library boards conduct community needs assessments and develop service plans for relevant, accountable library services.
- Administer the Libraries Act and Regulation, ensuring library trustees understand their legal roles and library boards comply with provincial legislation.
- Support public library service development by creating resources and tools to help library staff and trustees with effective management, governance, and service delivery, including board/council relations, agreements with other libraries, and policies for services to Indigenous communities and those with print disabilities.
- Participate in Branch planning and strategic public library service initiatives to align Branch plans with Alberta’s evolving service needs and Ministry goals.
- Facilitate Branch operations by preparing materials for internal information requests and responding to public inquiries on provincial library services.

**Please**

**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 -** Considers the whole system and recognizes the linkages within the planning and reporting processes, and the impacts of each decision on the boarder system. Sets goals within the context of long-term outcomes and broad perspectives. This is particularly important in developing documents such as the strategic and business plans, where knowledge of how our desired outcomes, objectives, actions, challenges and opportunities intersect is important.
- **Agility -** Proactively seeks out new opportunities for improvements, takes initiative and is resourceful in coordinating the resources needed, adapts to unforeseen circumstances, and displays a positive attitude toward the work and teammates.
- **Drive for Results - **Actively set goals and work collaboratively to anticipate potential issues. Supports team members to ensure that goals and objectives are collectively achieved. Knows what outcomes are important and maximizes resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organizations, while maintaining accountability.
- **Build Collaborative Environments -** Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.
- **Develop Networks -** Proactively builds networks, establishes credibility and builds trust with different stakeholders. Seeks to understand the perspectives in collaborating with stakeholders and, utilizes network to articulate and achieve ministry outcomes.

**Qualifications**:
Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.
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This job requires a minimum of a post-graduate degree in library and information science from an accredited university program plus four years of related work experience. The knowledge base is essential to serve clients within the library profession and to provide advice to non-degree library managers and library trustees who are delivering public library service at the local and regional level.

**Assets**:

- Knowledge of public library plan