Workforce Investigator

Role Responsibilities

Do you want to be part of ensuring safe, respectful workplaces across the Alberta Public Service? Do you thrive on uncovering facts, solving complex problems, and ensuring fairness? Join the Government of Alberta as a Workforce Investigator and play a critical role in upholding the organization’s policies and values. 

What You’ll Do

As a Workforce Investigator, you will conduct thorough employment investigations across the Alberta Public Service. You will investigate matters in relation to the Respectful Workplace Policy (RWP), misconduct, Code of Conduct, information security breaches, and more. You will be responsible for gathering facts, making conclusions and coming to findings through analysis against relevant policies. Your work will directly inform key employment decisions and provide valuable information to leaders to effectively manage the workforce. The work done by this position is instrumental in upholding healthy and respectful work environments across the Government of Alberta. 

Key responsibilities include:

•    Conduct fair, impartial, and timely investigations.
•    Analyze evidence and draw objective conclusions.
•    Consider the behaviour within relevant legislation, policy, and other frameworks.
•    Prepare comprehensive reports outlining factual findings and analysis.
•    Collaborate with internal stakeholders such as Labour Relations specialists, legal advisors, HR personnel and management, to ensure the completion of accurate and reliable investigations. 
•    Stay updated on relevant legislation, regulations, policies and best practices related to workplace investigations.
•    Handle sensitive and confidential information with professionalism and discretion.
•    Use your strong interpersonal skills to engage employees at all levels of the organization.
•    Have high ethical standards and a commitment to conducting investigations with fairness, integrity and objectivity.

What You Bring
We’re looking for a Workforce investigator with curiosity, persistence, and a commitment to fairness. You thrive in the “grey zone,” balancing thorough fact-finding with professional judgment. You bring:
•    Proven experience conducting workplace, regulatory or administrative investigation.
•    Strong analytical skills and critical thinking to assess evidence and determine defensible findings.
•    Exceptional writing skills with the ability to produce clear, detailed and credible reports.
•    The ability to remain neutral, objective and resilient in high-stakes and emotionally charged situations.
•    Knowledge of workplace legislation, policy and investigative best practices.
•    A collaborative approach to working with HR, leadership, unions and other stakeholders.

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position.

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.

•    Agility: Workforce investigations often involves emerging information, shifting priorities, and urgent timelines. You demonstrate agility by managing multiple investigations concurrently, adjusting to new evidence, and responding quickly to organizational needs. Your resilience and adaptability allow you to remain objective and professional in high-pressure or emotionally charged environments. 

•    Creative Problem Solving: You approach complex and sensitive cases with an investigative mindset that balances evidence-gathering with practical resolution. You adapt known investigative techniques to the specific circumstances of each file and identify alternative approaches when barriers arise. 

•    Systems Thinking: As a Workforce Investigator, you recognize how individual cases connect to the broader public service environment. You consider organizational structures, policies, and cultural dynamics when assessing allegations and formulating findings.,  

•    Drive for Results: You are committed to completing investigations in a timely, evidence-based manner while maintaining high standards of fairness and procedural integrity. Your focus on outcomes ensures that findings are clearly communicated, defensible, and aligned with legislation and policy. By delivering thorough and actionable reports, you contribute to effective decision-making and accountability within the Alberta Public Service.

Qualifications

Minimum recruitment standard: Bachelor’s Degree (equivalencies will be considered) in a related field such as Human Resources Management, Labour Relations, Business Administration, Psychology, Law or Legal Studies, Criminology or Sociology, Industrial Relations, or Public Administration, plus two years of related experience.

 
Equivalency: A related two-year diploma in social science discipline or a related discipline from a recognized post-secondary institution and  four  years of related experience or a related one-year certificate from a  recognized post-secondary institution and five years of related experience.

Role Requirement
•    Experience conducting workplace, regulatory or administrative investigations.
•    Experience Interpreting and applying employment legislation, organizational policies, in order to come to findings.  

Assets 
•    Experience working in HR or Labour Relations.
•    Experience conducting workplace investigations, such as harassment, sexual harassment, Code of Conduct violations and misconduct.
•    Experience working within a large, unionized environment.

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

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Location: Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, and Lethbridge. 

Hours of Work: 36.25 Hours per week, 8:15 to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
 
2 Temporary full-time positions.

This competition may be used to fill current and future vacancies at equal or lesser classification across the Government of Alberta.

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 the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

•    Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
•    Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
•    Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca.
•    Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
•    Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
•    Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
•    Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.