Director, Premier's Investment Council and Data Analytics

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, the position provides strategic leadership on advancing the coordination of Alberta's investment ecosystem and leading the implementation of enterprise-wide solutions that facilitate information sharing and performance monitoring.

Your key responsibilities include:

Stakeholder Engagement

• System stewardship of stakeholder relationships: Provide strategic direction over Alberta's investment-related stakeholder landscape, ensuring relationships are purposefully aligned to advance a coordinated, investor-centric provincial ecosystem.
• Strategic partnerships and alignment: Build and sustain senior-level relationships across divisions, ministries, agencies, and external partners to strengthen alignment, reduce fragmentation, and enhance the strategic effectiveness of the Premier's Investment Council.

Policy, Analytics, and Program Enablement: 

• Strategic governance leadership: Provide strategic oversight of the governance model for the Premier's Investment Council, ensuring structures, processes, and accountabilities support effective executive-level decision-making.
• System enablement: Lead the strategic design and evolution of enterprise-level tools and initiatives, such as stakeholder intelligence platforms, investment dealbooks, and reporting frameworks.

Strategic Leadership, Talent Development, and Culture: 

• Executive-level leadership and advice: Provide strategic advice, analysis, and leadership to senior executives related to the Premier's Investment Council, ensuring strong linkages between policy, international engagement, intelligence, and investment outcomes.
• Systems leadership: Lead the team with a system-thinking lens, identifying interdependencies, risks, and unintended consequences across governance and investment portfolios, and ensuring decisions reflect whole-of-government impacts.

Executive Briefings and Decision Support 

• Executive-quality decision support: Oversee the preparation of high-quality, decision-ready briefings, correspondence, and presentations that enable timely, informed executive and ministerial decision-making.
• Strategic coordination and clarity: Ensure alignment through the Executive Director and executive offices as required, while enabling staff to synthesize diverse inputs into concise, strategic reporting for senior audiences.

Branch Administration 

• Strategic planning and alignment: Lead integrated business and strategic planning to ensure unit priorities, resources, and activities align with government direction and Alberta's investment objectives.
• Results-oriented priority setting: Establish outcomes-focused goals and performance expectations that support system-wide investment effectiveness and accountability.

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.

Build Collaborative Environments: Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively.

Agility: Adapts quickly to change, managing risks and uncertainty while keeping goals on track.

Creative Problem Solving: Approaches challenges with innovation, fostering collaboration and generating impactful solutions.

Systems Thinking: Considers broader trends and political dynamics to guide informed, long-term decision-making.

Develop Self and Others: Build capacity within your team and across the organization. 

Qualifications

Minimum Recruitment Standards 

• A related university degree (e.g., Business, Economics, etc.)  supplemented by seven years progressively responsible experience; or equivalent as described below.

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 application consideration, you must attach a cover letter outlining your qualification and suitability for this role. Please clearly demonstrate how your experience aligns with this position.

Assets:

• Advanced expertise in public-sector governance and executive committee leadership, including advising and supporting a high-profile, cross-government advisory council.
• Demonstrated understanding of the Government of Alberta's strategic direction and mandate for investment attraction.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Government of Alberta structures, decision-making processes, and accountability mechanisms, and how these intersect with and shape the mandate, governance, and operating model of the Premier's Investment Council.
• Proven experience supporting boards, councils, or senior committees by providing strategic guidance on governance frameworks, accountability requirements, reporting practices, and executive-level decision support.
• Working knowledge of Alberta's priority international markets and key growth sectors.
• Exceptional verbal, written, listening and interpersonal communications skills.

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

Notes

This posting is for one (1) permanent full-time position.

Hour of Work: 36.25 hours/week, Monday – Friday in office

Location: Edmonton, Alberta

A cover letter that demonstrates how your education and work experience makes you the ideal candidate for the job is required.

Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience and relevant examples of required competencies.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Please also indicate whether your work experience was part-time or full-time. For example: January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Executive Director of Job Title (Full time)

Final candidates may be required to undergo a security screening.

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.

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