Program Manager, Evaluation

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Program Manager, Evaluation & Accountability Competition # : 49930

Department: Emergency Management

Location: Flexible

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status:

Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

Closing Date: 02-Oct-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

The Department of Emergency Management is responsible for leading disaster and emergency planning, preparedness, response and recovery activities on behalf of the Province of Nova Scotia. The objective of the Department is to ensure that Nova Scotians are safe, prepared and resilient in the face of disasters and emergencies. The Department leads the coordination and co-operation of partners and resources during provincial-level critical incidents, supports municipal and other partners in regional-level and local events, administers the province’s 911 service, maintains critical communications infrastructure and supports operations of our regional emergency management centres. The Department also works to ensure critical government services continue to function during and after critical events.

The Regional Operations and Infrastructure Branch enhances the safety and resilience of our Province by:

Establishing and maintaining Regional Emergency Operations Centres (REOCs) in 6 regions in Nova Scotia. The REOCs provide leadership in building regional emergency operations networks; ensuring collaborative efforts around emergency planning, training and exercising and developing regional plans for equipment and stores to support emergency response

Coordinating response to regional emergencies

Strengthening local and regional emergency preparedness through outreach and education to Nova Scotians at community events, schools, organizations, and through information sessions

Setting standards in the provincial emergency management program for training and exercising

Fostering strong collaboration, communication, and emergency management planning with regional partners, including the development and coordination of regional Nova Scotia Guard networks

Providing information to the Provincial Coordination Centre and the 24/7 Watch Desk staff to ensure real-time situational awareness, coordination, and support during emergencies and actioning critical information received from the Provincial Coordination Centre in the regions

About Our Opportunity

The Program Manager, Evaluation and Accountability develops, administers, and maintains evaluation, accountability, and performance-measurement frameworks for departmental training, exercising, learning, and preparedness programs.

In this role, you establish program standards, reporting requirements, performance indicators, evaluation methods, accountability tools, and evidence-based measures. Your work helps assess program effectiveness, relevance, accessibility, outcomes, and impact. You also provide advice and recommendations to senior leadership on program direction, policy development, reporting, governance, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement.

Primary Accountabilities

As the Program Manager, Evaluation and Accountability, you:

Develop, administer, and maintain evaluation, accountability, and performance-measurement frameworks for training, exercising, learning, and preparedness programs.

Establish program standards, reporting requirements, performance indicators, evaluation methods, accountability tools, and evidence-based measures.

Assess program effectiveness, relevance, accessibility, outcomes, impact, risks, gaps, and compliance considerations.

Conduct post-delivery evaluations, preparedness reviews, after-action reviews, and lessons-learned processes.

Assess program objectives, document findings, identify improvements, and support organizational learning.

Analyze evaluation findings, participation data, completion records, delivery history, learning-management-system reports, feedback, and performance results.

Use evidence to inform program decisions, reporting products, governance processes, and future planning.

Identify capability gaps, emerging issues, systemic factors, risks, compliance concerns, and accountability considerations that affect emergency-management readiness outcomes.

Provide advice and recommendations to senior leadership on program direction, policy development, reporting, governance, performance improvement, risk mitigation, and continuous-improvement priorities.

Track corrective measures, improvement actions, assigned responsibilities, and implementation progress.

Monitor delivery quality, adherence to approved curriculum, use of established training and exercising standards, and implementation of evaluation requirements.

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