Manager, Data Governance

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 64695
Ministry: Health
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Regular
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: November 26, 2024
Classification: Manager Zone 2

**Salary**: $3,241.74 to $4,362.44 bi-weekly ($84.609 - $113,859/year)

The Ministry of Health leads work in the areas of Alberta health insurance and benefits, doctors, hospitals and facilities, and other healthcare supports and information. This includes key systems such as Alberta Netcare, the provincial Elecontric Health Record, and MyHealth Records, an online tool that allows Albertans to view their own electronic health records. For more information on the work Alberta Health does, visit this link:
The Data Access and Information Privacy Branch is responsible for data standards, governance and privacy within Alberta's health care system. This includes ensuring that data driven decisions are supported by robust governance, privacy standards, and stakeholder collaboration. This helps to facilitate enhanced data access, collaboration, reduction in data duplication and innovation to ensure effective and efficient services across the government and health ecosystem to provide better services to Albertans.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Are you passionate about shaping the future of healthcare through data-driven innovation? Do you thrive in leadership roles, creating frameworks that ensure privacy, consistency, and trust in data usage? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you

Reporting to the Executive Director of Data Access and Information Privacy, the Manager will play a pivotal role in transforming Alberta's healthcare data landscape and lead the development of a coordinated approach to managing, governing, and utilizing data for the benefit of all Albertans. The development of standardized data access practices will increase the ability to make evidence-informed policy and program decisions while increasing public confidence about data use in Alberta's healthcare system.

Key responsibilities:

- Develop, and maintain a data governance framework and associated standards, guidelines and policy instruments around data governance within the health ecosystem;
- Establish and manage processes/standards for managing data throughout its lifecycle, including how data is collected, stored, processed, analyzed and shared;
- Initiate and maintain effective working relationships and partnerships with various stakeholders across the organization in order to develop and implement policy instruments and governance options/standards;
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand specific business needs for data access, data linkage and data integration to ensure alignment for data governance;
- Participate in the development and implementation of performance metrics and reporting mechanisms to monitor compliance with and effectiveness of data governance policies, standards and guidelines; and
- Ensure effective leadership by providing strategic direction and coaching support to team members.

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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:

- **Creative Problem Solving -** The Manager is responsible for supporting and developing policy instruments and standards related to data governance, working with areas and organizations with different data access needs and requirements
- **Systems Thinking**:

- The Manager is responsible for understanding business needs across program areas and organizations, and developing data governance standards based on identified needs as well as best practices from around the world to facilitate data access, while working within the regulatory framework.
- **Build Collaborative Environments**:

- The Manager will lead the development/ implementation of a data governance framework and the associated policy instruments which will require working collaboratively with other managers in the unit, division, ministry, across GoA and with external stakeholders, often on cross-functional teams.
- **Develop Networks** - The Manager is required to build and manage a well-rounded network to enable and standardize processes and governance around data access.
- **Develop Self and Others** - The Manager is responsible for a diverse team and will need to leverage the strengths of the team to meet the nuanced mandate of the unit.

**Qualifications**:
**University degree** in in business, science, public administration, law, information management or a related field supplemented by a minimum of **four (4) years** of progressively responsible related experience is **required.**

**Equivalency**:
Related experience or education may be con