Director, Modernization and Business Intelligence

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, Motor Vehicle Modernization with the Traffic Safety Services Division (TSS) of Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC), the Director role exists to lead transformational initiatives that improve services to Albertans. In addition, the Director also exists to transform how the Ministry of Transportation and Economic Corridors and its partners manage, understand, and leverage data as a strategic asset. The Director provides vision and oversight for modernization initiatives, business operations, enterprise data governance, performance analytics, and reporting that inform critical service delivery modernization, policy, and operational decisions for Alberta.

Responsibilities: 

• Establish and sustain a long-term enterprise data strategy that positions data as a critical asset. The department guides strategic initiatives across Traffic Safety Services, and embeds predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning into decision-making.
• Design and lead a robust data governance ecosystem by creating policies, standards, and collaborative mechanisms including inventories, data dictionaries, and metadata systems that ensure ethical, secure, and high-quality data use throughout the organization.
• Lead business modernization and IMT projects through analysis of leading-edge practices in Traffic Safety programming and service delivery to inform design, technical requirements, and implementation.
• Leading the development or refinement of strategies to address the need for evidence-informed operational and strategic decisions.
• Lead the team through effective articulation of initiative goals, focusing on development, support, and coaching.

The Director's key accountability is to provide a range of services to senior leaders in order to transform legacy systems into new accessible architecture or implement significant Division-wide initiatives in order to make business modernization goals/priorities a reality.

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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: Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them. Takes holistic long-term view of challenges and opportunities.  Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives.  Works towards actions and plans aligned with APS values.  Works with others to identify areas for collaboration.  
• Drive for Results: Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes. Uses variety of resources to monitor own performance standards. Acknowledges even indirect responsibility. Commits to what is good for Albertans even if not immediately accepted. Reaches goals consistent with APS direction.
• Develop Networks: Makes working with a wide range of parties an imperative. Creates impactful relationships with the right people. Ensures needs of varying groups are represented. Goes beyond to meet stakeholder needs. 
• Creative Problem Solving: Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues. Engages perspective to seek root causes. Finds ways to improve complex systems. Employs resources from other areas to solve problems. Engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks. 

Qualifications

Required:  

• University degree in Information Science, Library Sciences, Computer Science, Data Management or related, PLUS 7 years related experience or equivalent as described.

Equivalency:

• Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of 1 year of education for 1 year of experience, or 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.
  
  

For Example: 

• Related 1 year certificate PLUS a minimum 10 years of experience.
• Related 2-year diploma PLUS a minimum 9 years of experience.
• Related minimum 11 years of experience.

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

Qualifications cont.

The successful candidate MUST also have: 

• Strong experience in metadata management, knowledge of data standards, data cataloguing, tagging, lineage, data quality and delivering data products within a data governance framework.
• Consultation, interpersonal, and facilitation skills to consult, negotiate, and resolve conflict with senior representatives and stakeholders having often widely varying perspectives, expectations, requirements, and priorities.
• Leadership and influencing skills to promote innovation, build consensus, motivate others to accept and adopt innovative concepts and approaches, and lead teams.
• Exceptional business acumen, and ability to liaise with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Superior organizational skills in planning, project management and task coordination
• Interpersonal and negotiation skills and diplomacy to support senior Traffic Safety Services Division and Ministry representatives and advance their decisions and priorities for Traffic Safety Services. 
• Relationship management skills to develop and maintain collaborative working relationships within the Division, across the Ministry, and with stakeholders.
• Critical, analytical, research, and problem-solving skills, including ability to analyze complex issues and information, determine risks, identify options, and make decisions in alignment with strategic and business plan goals. 
• Demonstrated skills to simultaneously lead multiple complex projects in ambiguous situations, with multiple interruption and conflicting deadlines.
• Organizational change and transition management skills and leads effectively within a complex organization and continually changing business environment. 
• Experience leading succession planning initiatives, demonstrate commitment to leadership development, continuous improvement, innovation and building capacity.

Assets: 

• Project Management experience is an asset, including leading projects using recognized project management methodologies.   Professional training and certification in change management is also an asset. 

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

Notes

Additional Position Details:

• Term of Employment: Temporary, Full-time position - up to 2 years.
• Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week.
• Location: Edmonton.

Recruitment Process:

• Cover Letter: Please provide a cover letter outlining your skills, knowledge and experience as they relate to this role. 
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.