Strategic Info Coordinator

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 64362
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: November 18. 2024
Classification: Program Services 3 Market Adjustment

**Salary**: $2626.89 to $3448.73 bi-weekly ($68,561 - $90,011/year)

The Program and System Support Division provides strategic leadership and support services to the Early Childhood Services to Grade 12 education system, and facilitates effective and collaborative relationships with school authorities and stakeholders.

The Field Services Sector provides guidance to school authorities to ensure the successful implementation of education-related legislation, regulations, policies, programs, and initiatives.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Priorities Manager, this position provides strategic information advice, coordination and recommendations to the Field Services sector, the Program and System Support Division, and senior leaders as required. This includes developing information materials for stakeholders and the department, providing analysis and recommendations on key issues, and coordinating department-wide requests and priorities. The Strategic Information Coordinator actively builds collaborative relationships and seeks opportunities to work together with other staff across the sector, division and ministry.
- Tracks short and long-term issues and assesses information to identify inconsistencies and gaps.
- Supports the Minister and Deputy Minister tours as required, coordinating cross-ministry briefings on initiatives, activities and issues.
- Coordinates information such as data requests, school closure lists, webpage updates.
- Completes Action Requests (AR's) as required, including the drafting of correspondence on behalf of the senior leadership and completing briefing notes.
- Leads the establishment and maintenance of consistent processes across the sector (e.g., training, templates, process documents).
- Oversees the facilitation of learning presentations for sector staff to ensure they are apprised of and familiar with department initiatives.
- Identifies, evaluates and researches complex and sensitive issues and develops briefings with recommendations for consideration by senior and executive management.
- Engages with others in a collaborative manner that demonstrates teamwork, integrity, and good citizenship within the department.
- Providing information, advice, and guidance to support Policy & Priority work.
- Participates on internal, cross-ministry and cross-government committees and working groups as needed.

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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:

- **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 - **Facilitates the creation of a work environment for generating and finding newer ideas to solve existing and potential problems.
- **Agility - **Possesses an ability to create an adaptable environment and overcome barriers through proactive and flexible approach to work.
- **Building Collaborative Work Environments - **Leads cross functional collaboration and initiate strategic communication systems to anticipate and address potential conflict and builds and atmosphere of genuine trust and teamwork.
- **Drive for Results - **Plans for and delivers results, from concrete deliverables to process improvements, managing resources effectively and ensuring attention to detail.

**Qualifications**:
University graduation in a related field plus 2 years progressively responsible related experience; or equivalent as described below.

**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.

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

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**Assets**:

- Experience in information and issues management
- Experience preparing and providing analysis, briefings, and research
- Experience working with and supporting strategic planning
- Experience working with and coordinating tracking tools and reporting
- Experience supporting facilitation sessions and presentations
- Knowledge of government decision-making processes and structures
- Knowledge of project management
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