Data Specialist

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Manager of Corporate Projects, the Data Specialist provides a strategic role in capital maintenance planning for government owned facilities. This position develops and maintains a comprehensive data management strategy to ensure the accuracy and completeness of facility maintenance data.

The Data Specialist enhances the capital maintenance planning process by ensuring executive managers have access to comprehensive strategic information to make decisions, and facility operations staff have a clear and efficient process to track maintenance requirements. This position acts as a key liaison between facility operations staff, maintenance advisors, business analysts, technical software consultants, and the Facility Evaluations team. This role is also responsible for the administration of software application(s), providing training and technical support to facility operations staff – including external property management contractors – and potentially supporting the migration of branch facility maintenance data to a new software application.

The primary responsibilities for the Data Specialist include, but are not limited to: 

• Establish and implement data management policies and procedures to improve and maintain data quality to support the planning, prioritizing, and delivery of CMR projects 
• Monitor and analyze maintenance data to identify trends and issues, and to propose opportunities for improvement to identified issues
• Create and maintain clear, organized, and efficient resources (i.e. eCourses), and provide coaching and professional support to facilities staff who are responsible for keeping facility maintenance data up to date
• Manage and administer application(s), including the coordination of technical software issues, and testing technical fixes in collaboration with software consultants and others as needed

Experience and/or knowledge of the following will be considered strong assets:

• Data management and data analysis 
• Capital maintenance planning software (such as VFA), or related software
• Creation of eCourses and advanced use of Microsoft programs 
• Construction and/or project delivery 

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

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

Systems Thinking - Considers the impacts of data standards on the overall program of capital maintenance and renewal planning and prioritization and related business deliverables, processes, applications, and participants.

Creative Problem Solving - Continuously assesses programs, processes, and evolving priorities to identify opportunities to adjust approach to system and data management.

Build Collaborative Environments - Builds professional relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to keep lines of communication open as one method of assessing need for adjustments or improvements to system and/or data management.

Qualifications

Requirements:  University graduation in computer information science, business administration, mathematics/statistics, engineering, political science, or a related field PLUS a minimum of four (4) years of related experience.

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered equivalent on the basis of: 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

Assets:
•    Graduate degree in a related field 
•    Experience with capital maintenance planning software (such as VFA), or related software
•    Experience with creation of eCourses and advanced use of Microsoft programs
•    Advanced knowledge of data management practices and data analysis 
•    Ability to continuously assess and identify opportunities to improve processes

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, Alberta 
Hours of Work: 7.25 hours per week, 36.25 hours per week 
Term of Employment: Full-time, Permanent 

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
•    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
•    Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work  schedule agreement
•    Leadership and mentorship programs