Community Development Officer

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 75532
Ministry: Arts, Culture and Status of Women
Location: Cochrane
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Ongoing
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: October 1, 2025
Classification: Program Services 5

**Salary**: $3,076.28 to $4,053.05 bi-weekly ($80,290 - $105,784 year)

**The Community Engagement Branch**

The Community Engagement Branch, Ministry of Arts, Culture and Status of Women, supports the broader non-profit and voluntary sector to build and strengthen their human and financial capacity by:

- Providing financial assistance.
- Building the management, leadership, operational and adaptive capacity of organizations through facilitation and training on governance, leadership, and skill development.
- Identifying and addressing broader non-profit sector issues and initiatives through gathering and analyzing meaningful data on the sector, and undertaking research on key sector trends to inform and set policy direction.
- Building cross-sector partnerships and collaborations to achieve shared goals; and
- Building awareness of the critical role of the non-profit sector in building a strong Alberta economy and healthy and vibrant communities.

**The Community Development Unit (CDU)**

The Community Development Unit (CDU) supports the Branch by delivering a dual mandate to build the human and social capacity of the non-profit sector, and to support the Government of Alberta with strategic decision making and public participation. The Unit delivers these dual mandates through:

- Expertise in non-profit management and governance,
- Expert facilitation, process design, group decision making, and adult learning.
- Services are targeted at community leaders, organizations, networks, Civil Society and the Government of Alberta.
- Taking a capacity building approach, the CDU works at the individual, organizational, government, and ecosystem level to meet non-profit sector needs, address complex community issues and make positive contributions to the lives of Albertans.
- The CDU's long-term outcome is a strong, engaged, and collaborative nonprofit sector, that creates resilient communities.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- In this very specialized, senior staff position, you will work in collaboration with non-profit and voluntary sector leaders and government to identify leverage points in the non-profit and social purpose ecosystems to seize opportunities to catalyze positive sector level change. You will use your expert knowledge of facilitation, social innovation, public engagement, non-profit governance, strategic planning, and applied best practices to deliver successful projects for government and the sector. Using your unique understanding to design and deliver customized projects, you will respond to the needs of the non-profit and voluntary ecosystem and government.

As this is a highly independent position, you will often interact individually and work closely with government executives, community leaders and elected officials. A high level of professionalism, communication and judgement are required.

Reporting to and working with the Senior Manager, Ecosystems and Government, you will be responsible for working with:
**1. External stakeholders to build the capacity of the non-profit sector and Civil Society by**:

- Conducting jurisdictional and environmental scans identifying issues, opportunities, and interventions for the broad non-profit sector.
- Leading and managing a full project lifecycle, from issue identification, solution design, implementation, and reporting.
- Enhancing non-profit sector resilience using expert knowledge of systems thinking, research, project management, facilitation, social innovation, public engagement, non-profit governance,

strategic planning, and capacity building theories and techniques to deliver successful projects.
- Building cross-sector partnerships to identify shared goals and address wicked system issues.
- Providing leadership and working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate opportunities and/or issues, co-create design and develop strategies including

evaluation and coordination of collaborative cross sector/cross government initiatives for sector/system level change.

**2. Government of Alberta Ministries to**:

- Provide consultation services and specialized and expert advice in the areas of the non-profit sector, social innovation, and public/stakeholder engagement.
- Designing and delivering strategic dialogue and public engagement projects for Government of Alberta Ministries.

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