Senior Compensation and Benefits Specialist

Role Responsibilities

Are you an experienced compensation and benefits professional who enjoys turning complex data into practical, evidence-based solutions? Do you have a passion for building fair, transparent, and sustainable total rewards programs that support organizational success?

We are seeking a Senior Compensation and Benefits Analyst to help shape the compensation, classification, and total rewards frameworks that will support our future workforce for the Alberta Sheriffs Police Service (ASPS).

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of Alberta's newest police service while influencing compensation and benefits programs for civilian employees, peace officers, and police officers. Working closely with leaders, stakeholders, and partners, you will provide strategic analysis and advice that helps attract, retain, and support a high-performing workforce.

Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, you will provide expert advice and leadership on compensation and benefits programs, policies, and frameworks.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting the development and implementation of compensation and remuneration frameworks aligned with public sector principles and governance requirements.
• Conducting market research, salary surveys, benchmarking, and jurisdictional analysis to support evidence-based recommendations.
• Developing and maintaining compensation models, dashboards, reports, and analytical tools to support planning and decision-making.
• Providing advice on classification, job evaluation, salary placement, pay administration, and total rewards programs.
• Analyzing benefits trends, utilization, and sustainability to support program effectiveness and long-term planning.
• Supporting compliance, audit, and governance activities related to compensation and benefits programs.
• Preparing executive briefings, reports, and recommendations for senior leadership and key stakeholders.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviours 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:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

• Systems Thinking: Understands how compensation, classification, benefits, workforce planning, fiscal sustainability, governance requirements, collective agreements, and organizational objectives are interconnected within a developing provincial police service.
• Drive for Results: Establishes priorities, timelines, analytical approaches, and quality standards to deliver accurate compensation, benefits, classification, and total rewards advice that supports timely and evidence-based decision-making.
• Develop Networks: Builds effective working relationships with ASPS leaders, Human Resources partners, corporate compensation and classification specialists, finance, labour relations, policy areas, and external jurisdictions to support informed total rewards recommendations.
• Agility: Adapts analysis, recommendations, and implementation approaches in response to evolving ASPS workforce needs, public sector requirements, compensation trends, labour market conditions, policy direction, and organizational change.
• Creative Problem Solving: Uses research, benchmarking, data analysis, modelling, and policy interpretation to develop practical solutions to complex compensation, benefits, classification, salary placement, and workforce sustainability issues.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Fosters collaboration across HR, operational, financial, policy, and leadership groups to align requirements, resolve issues, support transparent decision-making, and advance fair and sustainable compensation and benefits practices.
• Develop Self and Others: Maintains current knowledge of compensation, benefits, classification, public sector employment practices, data tools, and HR systems while sharing expertise, guidance, and resources that strengthen organizational capability.

Qualifications

A degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field plus 1 year related experience.

• Experience conducting compensation research, market analysis, salary surveys, and benchmarking.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills, including experience working with large and complex datasets.
• Experience interpreting compensation-related policies, legislation, collective agreements, and governance requirements.

Assets:

• A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in compensation, benefits, job evaluation, classification, or total rewards.
• Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) and/or Certified Compensation Professional (CCP/CPP) designation.
• Experience in a unionized public sector, municipal, policing, or broader public safety environment.
• Expertise with Power BI, DAX, Power Query, and HR information systems such as SAP SuccessFactors.

Equivalency:

• A related 2 year diploma from a recognized post-secondary institution and 3-years or related experience.
• A related 1-year certificate from a recognized post-secondary and 4-years of related experience.

Directly related education or experience considered on 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.

Notes

There is one (1) permanent, full-time, fully in-person positions available.

Monday to Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 36.25 hours per week.

Please note a cover letter explaining how you meet the requirements and assets of the role is required.
•    Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.
•    Valid Class 5 Alberta Driver’s License or equivalent is required.
•    This competition may be used to fill current and future vacancies across government.
•    Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what we have to offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information.
• Professional learning and development.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.