Strategic Planning Analyst

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 71494
Ministry: Municipal Affairs
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Ongoing
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: June 3, 2025
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 assists municipalities in providing well-managed, collaborative, and accountable local government to Albertans. Our main responsibilities are:

- Funding supports for municipalities.
- A system that strives to ensure appropriate safety standards for the construction and maintenance of buildings and equipment.
- Protections for new home buyers and required licensing for home builders.
- Province-wide support for access to public library services for Albertans.
- Management of about 2.6 million acres of public land in the province's three Special Areas.
- Independent review and decisions on local matters by the Land and Property Rights Tribunal.

**Role Responsibilities**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
**Strategic Planning**: Supporting the development of frameworks, guidelines, templates, and processes that foster cross-ministry collaboration, reduce silos, and enhance transparency. Conducting jurisdictional research and coordinating strategic planning sessions and Executive Team materials to align divisional input with ministry goals.

**Business Plan and Annual Report Development**: Contributing to the preparation of the ministry’s business plan and annual report in line with Treasury Board and Finance standards. Facilitating project planning, drafting and refining content, and developing materials for executive approvals and legislative presentations.

**Operational Planning**: Assisting in the coordination and monitoring of operational planning activities, including support for the Deputy Minister’s performance agreement and divisional input into strategic priorities.

**Performance Measurement**: Supporting the development and evaluation of meaningful performance metrics aligned with government standards and the Auditor General’s expectations.

**Environmental Scanning**: Developing and analyzing environmental scans to identify trends and issues that may impact ministry priorities. Producing reports and facilitating leadership discussions to inform risk mitigation and planning efforts.

**Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)**: Coordinating updates to the ministry’s strategic risk register and preparing risk-related materials for Executive Team review.
Managerial and Communications Support: Assisting the Manager with internal communications, briefings, cross-ministry coordination, and response to action requests. Supporting content development to ensure a consistent ministry voice across planning documents.

**Please**

**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to thoroughly understand the competencies required for this role and be ready to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

**Systems Thinking**: You foresee/anticipate outcomes and consider potential impacts across interconnected areas and will factor these insights into planning.

**Agility**: Skillfully identify and manage competing priorities within a highly politically sensitive environment.

**Develop Networks**: Seeks to understand the perspectives in collaborating with stakeholders and, utilizes network to articulate and achieve departmental outcomes.

**Drive For Results**: Knows what outcomes are important and maximizes resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organizations, while maintaining accountability.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Qualifications**:

- Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.
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University degree in Business, public administration, economics, supplemented by four years related experience. Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

**Equivalency**:
Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

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

**Knowledge**
- GoA planning and reporting processes and accountability frameworks, including business and strategic planning, operational planning, performance measurement, environmental scanning, and enterprise risk management.
- Applicable government and ministry legislation, regulations, policies, directives, and guidelines.
- Strategic business and operational planning, and performance measurement theories, principles, methodologies, and techniques.
- Enterprise risk management concepts and techniques, including identification, analysis, mitigation, and reporting of risks.
- Strategic policy development and the GoA's poli