Director, Apprenticeship Delivery & Industry Support Services

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, Apprenticeship Delivery and Support Services, the Director, Apprenticeship Delivery & Industry Support Services (ADISS) plays a key leadership role in advancing Alberta’s apprenticeship and skilled trades system. Leading a talented multidisciplinary team, the Director oversees the standards that underpin apprenticeship education, industry training, and certification across provincially designated trades.

This highly collaborative role brings together professional, technical, and administrative expertise and works closely with industry and other partners to translate evolving workforce needs into strong, responsive program standards and certification practices. For a leader who thrives on collaboration, complex problem-solving, and making an impact at a system level, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the future of apprenticeship and skilled trades in Alberta.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Advice and Priority Delivery: Support the Executive Director with strategic analysis, advice, and briefings; track emerging issues and risks; develop solutions to operational barriers; and collaborate across ministries on designated-trade labour mobility requirements under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.
  
  
• Program Standards and Industry Support: Coordinate the unit’s professional, technical, and administrative work; oversee provincial Red Seal activities and related policy; support the Alberta Board of Skilled Trades in maintaining trade scopes and certification criteria and promoting skilled trades; and support Red Seal secretariat services for other Canadian jurisdictions. Work with institutions and industry on apprenticeship education, industry training, and certification criteria, and monitor dual credit coordination and policy development.
  
  
• Issues Management and Risk Resolution: Build collaborative relationships that encourage transparent communication, establish expectations for raising and resolving issues, assess risks proactively, and ensure stakeholders share a consistent understanding of roles and responsibilities.
  
  
• Operational Planning and Implementation: Collaborate with executive leadership and other branches on operational plans, align initiatives with unit capacity, monitor delivery and risks, and coordinate resources and division partners to keep operations on track.

The Job Description is provided for further details on 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.

• Systems Thinking: Considers how decisions affect learners, industry, and government partners, and develop plans that support long-term outcomes and efficient use of ministry resources.
• Creative Problem Solving: Brings together people and information to develop practical, innovative solutions to complex apprenticeship education and trade certification challenges.
• Agility: Adapts quickly to changing priorities, strategies, and processes while maintaining focus on key outcomes and keeping partners informed.
• Drive for Results: Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes, address operational limitations constructively, and ensure executive leadership has the information and resources needed to support sound decisions.
• Develop Networks: Builds trusted relationships with the Alberta Board of Skilled Trades, industry, post-secondary institutions, and government partners to establish common purpose and represent diverse stakeholder needs.

Qualifications

University graduation in a field related to the position assignment, supplemented by six years progressively responsible experience.

Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one-for-one basis.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated Senior Leadership Experience
• Strong Project Management Skills with the ability to handle multiple time sensitive projects.

• Strong Communication and Presentation Skills
• Experience managing projects and processes with multidisciplinary teams of professionals and technical specialists.
• Strong analytical and evaluative skills to synthesize complex information, assess risks, and develop strategic advice and briefing materials.
• Ability to facilitate stakeholder discussions, reconcile divergent views, and resolve complex operational and policy issues.
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Assets

• Instructional or educational experience, or experience administering an education or training program.
• Knowledge of Alberta’s apprenticeship education and professional trade certification systems
• Familiarity with Federal and Provincial Protocols.

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

Notes

This is (1) one Temporary full-time position for 18 months working 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday. The successful candidate is expected to work out of the Edmonton Office.

We require a Cover Letter clearly demonstrating a Senior leadership experience and explaining how you would go about building a strong team.

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.
• Management Employee Pension Plan (MEPP).
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information.
• Professional learning and development.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.