Board Officer

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 72283
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: June 23, 2025
Classification: Program Services 3 Market Adjustment (023PSAMA)

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

**Role Responsibilities**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
**Case Management & Hearing Coordination**:

- Provide procedural advice and scheduling support to parties
- Coordinate hearings across Alberta, including travel as required
- Draft decisions and Board orders, ensuring legal conformity and timely release

**Legal Analysis & Board Support**:

- Conduct background research and interpret legislation, board decisions, and relevant case law
- Identify sensitive issues and brief panel members accordingly
- Guide the decision-making process to ensure adherence to administrative law and evidentiary standards
- Ensure consistency and clarity in decision documentation and legal interpretation

**Stakeholder Engagement & Client Service**:

- Build effective relationships with internal teams, external stakeholders, and parties to appeals
- Lead discussions to clarify Board procedures and promote understanding of legislative mandates
- Provide expert responses to inquiries, including those from ministry leaders, MLAs, the Ombudsman, and FOIP officials

**Training & Knowledge Sharing**:

- Develop and deliver training sessions and materials for Board Members and stakeholders
- Prepare communications including bulletins, briefing notes, and newsletter content
- Simplify complex legal or procedural issues for various audiences
- Represent the Board at speaking engagements or stakeholder events

**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
- **Creative Problem Solving** - Actively engaging the community and resources at hand to address issues. Taking a solution
- oriented approach in addressing infrastructure challenges
- **Build Collaborative Environments** - Actively fostering collaboration across departments, municipalities, and stakeholders to support effective grant administration

**Qualifications**:
Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

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A degree in a related field such as Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, Planning,, plus a minimum two years of directly related work experience or assessment accreditation with extensive years of related experience. Equivalencies will be considered.

**Equivalency**: Directly related education or experience considered based on:

- 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or
- 1 year of experience for 1 year of education

**Assets**:

- Knowledge of administrative law (principles of natural justice and fairness) and quasi-judicial dispute resolution processes.
- Case/project management methods, principles and techniques.
- Familiarity with Land and Property Rights Tribunal procedures, rules and practices.
- Knowledge of land planning in Alberta, municipal administration.
- Knowledge of surface rights and related compensation issues.
- Working understanding of legislation and regulations relevant to LPRT, including:

- Municipal Government Act
- Surface Rights Act
- Provincial Priorities Act
- New Home Buyer Protection Act
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