Evaluation Advisor

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 66404
Ministry: Transportation and Economic Corridors
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: Program Services 4 Market Adjustment

**Salary**: $2,757.39 to $3,604.17 bi-weekly ($71,692.14 to $93,708.42/ annually)

Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC) is a centre of excellence for transportation in North America. We contribute to Alberta's prosperity and quality of life by providing and supporting a safe, innovative, and sustainable provincial transportation system and water management infrastructure. With Transportation and Economic Corridors, you can engage in a fulfilling career with diverse room to grow. We believe in building careers, providing opportunities for growth within the organization, and strive to provide our staff with a work-life balance including reasonable hours of work to ensure time with family and to accommodate outside interests.

The department promotes a vital and diverse economy by:

- Managing transportation safety
- Supporting municipalities with public transportation and water/wastewater facilities
- Expanding and enhancing a well-integrated transportation system and enabling market access

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**Role Responsibilities**:
If you are a seasoned evaluation professional with a love of using data and research to provide robust assessments of policy and programs to senior leadership, this may be the role for you.

Reporting to the Manager, Evaluation and Finance, as the Evaluation Advisor you will be the operational focal point for implementation of multiple initiatives across Traffic Safety Services Division (division) programs and services to evaluate and report on legislation, regulations, policy, programs, initiatives and contractual agreements.

**As the Evaluation Advisor you will be immediately responsible for the following**:

- Develop a strategic three-year evaluation framework for the division, taking into consideration the division’s major projects and policy work.
- Develop robust evaluation plans for a number of in-flight departmental initiatives and lead these evaluation projects.
- Help build evaluation capacity across the division to ensure evaluation is included as a consideration in all projects the division undertakes.

**Ongoing, as the Evaluation Advisor you will**:

- Contribute to the division's strategic planning process through collection and analysis of data, facilitation of division and stakeholder sessions, and development of related documents in alignment with the department and government strategic planning frameworks.
- Provide consultation services across the division to facilitate the implementation of best practices, streamlined processes and innovative solutions that contribute to continuous improvement and achievement of the division's priorities.
- Conceptualize, design, implement, and lead evaluation projects for the division, using a broad range of data collection techniques, analyzing and interpreting findings, and providing evidence-based recommendations to senior leadership. This includes framing and planning projects, identifying and tracking performance measures, evaluation research and analysis, and developing recommendations and reports.

**As Evaluation Advisor you will have extensive experience independently completing the following**:

- Building and executing project plans using evidence-based methods for developing evaluation projects.
- Developing performance measures, evaluation tools, and data repositories
- Using a broad range of data collection techniques, tailoring them as necessary to the evaluation's needs.
- Analyzing and interpreting data using rigorous qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods.
- Creating clear and concise reports, briefings and presentations.
- Building relationships with diverse groups of technical and business professionals to produce successful evaluations.

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**Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- University degree in a related field such as Public Administration, Political Science, Business Administration, Statistics, or Social Sciences, along with four years of progressively responsible experience in research methodologies, data analysis, evaluation, reporting, and performance management.

**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.**Assets**:

- Master’s degree in a related field such as P