Manager, Post-secondary Research and Innovation

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 73509
Ministry: Advanced Education
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: July 29, 2025
Classification: Manager Zone 2

**Salary**: $3,390.00 to $4,493.32 bi-weekly ($88,479 - $117,275 /year)

**Ministry of Advanced Education**

Advanced Education works to ensure Albertans have access to affordable and high-quality post-secondary education that equips them with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Through strategic funding, research, and partnerships, the Ministry strengthens Alberta's innovation ecosystem and supports the province's economic growth and diversification.

**Role Responsibilities**:
The Manager is called upon to solve a number of problems in the process of providing essential leadership on policy and other strategic matters related to research and innovation. These problems typically arise out of managing an emerging area of policy, diverse interests, and can often come as a result of stakeholders, staff, or policy direction from the Minister or other decision-makers.

Given its emerging status, there are few established precedents available to guide efforts, with this position continually providing support to the Director for the development and enhancement of the province's post-secondary system and its role in the research and innovation ecosystem. This includes providing the Minister and other senior Ministry and government officials with advice and support relating to strategies, policies, legislation and approaches that affect Alberta's post-secondary research and innovation system. To accomplish this, a wide variety of skills are required including strong strategic problem solving, negotiation, consultation, collaboration and consensus-building, and prioritization skills.

The Manager requires superior interpersonal and facilitation skills to establish and maintain effective relationships with a wide variety of Ministry and Government representatives, representatives of other governments, and external stakeholders with interests in advanced education policies, issues, and programs. The Manager is expected to exhibit and model these skills when consulting and collaborating with and influencing stakeholders, partners, and decision-makers. Issues dealt with are often sensitive and/or controversial, with the Manager called on to balance and reconcile differing and often competing interests while demonstrating responsiveness, flexibility, and adaptability. Cooperation, collaboration, and teamwork are emphasized when achieving results.

**Role Responsibilities (Continued)**:
Challenging situations typically handled by the Manager include:

- Building and maintaining linkages with diverse clients to encourage and facilitate their active participation in issues identification, environmental scanning, research, and policy and strategy development.
- Working with colleagues from other divisions and other Ministries in the development of strategy and policies associated with research and innovation and balancing this objective with the need to identify gaps in existing programs and policies and inconsistencies with department direction.
- Managing development of research and analysis activities to support long-term decision making.
- Establishing solutions and/or recommended options to senior department representatives and officials for emerging issues and policies related to research and innovation and the post-secondary system.
- Ensuring policy directions consider and integrate stakeholder input, department direction, political and fiscal realities, and operational feasibility, to arrive at options that reflect government direction for the economy and post-secondary system.
- Identifying and promoting opportunities for improved outcomes in the department; and
- Representing and communicating department and/or government positions to partners and stakeholders, balancing occasionally varying or conflicting perspectives with the requirement to promote acceptance of and commitment to department and government directions and strategies.

Human resource management is essential, with this position leading a team of policy analysts with diverse knowledge and skills.

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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:
**Drive for Results -** Produces high-quality policy products that support decision-making for the department and Minister. Aligns policy initiatives with strategic objectives and collaborates extensively across ministries, divisions, and external partners to develop options and strategies.

**Develop Networks -** Builds and