Field Services Manager

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 66268
Ministry: 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: January 30, 2025
Classification: Manager Zone 2

**Salary**: $3,241.74 to $4,362.44 bi-weekly ($84,609 - $113,859/year)

Alberta Education supports students, parents, teachers and administrators from Early Childhood Services (ECS) through Grade 12. Share your talent, your leadership and your success as you shape the future of education in Alberta. The Ministry provides funding to over 300 provincial school authorities for ECS to Grade 12, within the Financial Services and Capital Planning Division.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Director, Indigenous and North Services Branch, the Field Services Manager leads a team in supporting the department, Minister of Education and several Kindergarten to Grade 12 First Nations, provincial education, charter and independent school authorities across a broad geographic area of the province. Within the context of legislation, regulations and policies, the Field Services Manager promotes innovation and system.

The Field Services Manager promotes innovation and system effectiveness; monitors and provides direction to First Nations and provincial education authorities for compliance on planning, reporting and accountability/assurance requirements; and is accountable for ensuring First Nations and provincial education authority compliance. The Field Services Manager also collaborates with other Field Services Managers to ensure that public, separate, Francophone, charter and independent school authorities and schools in a large geographic area of the province meet requirements related to improving assurance for First Nations, Métis and Inuit student success and ensuring that all Alberta students are knowledgeable, understanding and respectful of First Nation, Métis and Inuit people - their cultures, languages, histories, Treaties, and the legacy of Residential Schools.

The Field Services Manager also supports provincial education and First Nations, charter and independent school authorities with issues management and fosters continuous improvement.
- Leads the annual evaluation and approval of Public, Separate, Charter, Private (Independent) and Francophone school authority Education Plans and Annual Education Results Reports.
- Leads the review of annual Private School operating plans as per the Private Schools Regulation.
- Ensures provincial school authority compliance and accountability when issues arise, including requiring a school authority to develop an improvement plan and holding the school authority accountable for compliance.
- Gather, synthesize and share system intelligence to keep senior department officials and the Minister apprised of current and emerging opportunities and issues in the field. The department and Minister rely on this position to have significant and in-depth knowledge of 35 First Nations education authorities.
- Contributes significantly to the department's mandate to provide standards and program implementation direction and supports to First Nations and provincial education authorities.
- Strengthens connections between ministry priorities and First Nations and provincial education authority work in the service of several hundred thousand provincial and approximately 11,000 Kindergarten to Grade 12 First Nations students on reserve across the province of Alberta. Oversee and monitor 10 to15 First Nations and provincial education authorities, charter and independent school within a broad geographic area of the province grounded by government and ministry legislation, regulations, policies, directives and procedures to ensure their effective management and operations so that students succeed in learning.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 impact of strategies and changes on the work of clients, stakeholders, and team members and support organization vision and goals through strategic planning of tasks and considering relationships between different work approaches and their impact on different programs, divisions and ministries.
- **Creative Problem Solving** - Facilitate the creation of a work environment for generating and finding newer ideas to solve existing and potential problems.
- **Build Collaborative Environment**s - Strong track record in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- **Drive for Results** - Designs and manages projects to achieve intended outcomes and deliverables within