Director, Program Management & Integration

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, Enterprise Performance, the Director, PM&I provides strategic leadership for capital project controls, portfolio performance, data governance, analytics, executive reporting, and capital decision support.

The Director establishes ministry-wide standards, processes, and integrated information frameworks that enable a consistent and reliable view of capital portfolio performance, proactively identify emerging risks, and support evidence-based funding, prioritization, and delivery decisions. The role leads a multidisciplinary team of 11 staff through two direct-report managers, provides strategic advice to senior and executive leadership, and ensures PM&I activities are aligned with legislative requirements, government direction, and ministry priorities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Monitor capital portfolios against approved scope, schedule, budget, funding and outcome commitments.
• Recommend corrective actions and escalate significant performance issues to senior and executive leadership.
• Establish a ministry-wide capital project data strategy, common data model and performance measurement framework.
• Recommend options and actions to improve affordability, value for money and alignment with government priorities.
• Provide project and portfolio-level financial advice and recommend funding reallocations, cash-flow adjustments and corrective actions for executive approval.
• Oversee responsible predictive analytics and AI-enabled forecasting and build organizational data literacy.
• Oversee regular and ad hoc reporting for the Minister, Deputy Minister, Treasury Board, Cabinet and ministry executive committees.
• Accountable for the quality and timeliness of responses to urgent information requests and significant emerging issues.
• Monitor compliance with approved standards and direct or recommend corrective action where requirements are not met.
• Build team capability through coaching, succession planning, knowledge transfer and professional development.
• Lead implementation of new project controls, reporting, data and analytics practices, including adoption plans, training and success measures.

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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.

Drive for Results – The position 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 and reaches goals consistent with APS direction.

Creative Problem Solving – The position 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 and engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.

Agility – The position identifies and manages required change and the associated risks, identifies alternative approaches and supports others to do the same, proactively explains impact of changes, anticipates and mitigates emotions of others, anticipates obstacles and stays focused on goals and makes decisions and takes action in uncertain situations and creates a backup plan.

Develop Networks – This position builds trust to fairly represent every party, uses network to identify opportunities, establishes credibility and common purpose with a range of people, actively represents needs and varying groups, creates strategic impression by inspiring and connecting with values and beliefs.

Systems Thinking – This position 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 and works with others to identify areas for collaboration.

Qualifications

Required:

• A University degree in business administration, public administration, finance, engineering, economics, project management, data analytics, or a related field supplemented by five years progressively responsible experience.
• Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

Assets:

• Knowledge of accounting, financial management and reporting theories and concepts including Generally Accepted Auditing Standards.
• Knowledge of public sector accounting and auditing standards and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Professional designation or certification in project management, finance, engineering, analytics or change management.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, analytics, business intelligence and integrated reporting environments.
• Knowledge of relevant accounting standards, legislation, regulations and policies, specifically the Financial Administration Act, Sustainable Fiscal Planning.
• Knowledge of Government of Alberta business and fiscal planning processes and procedures, and knowledge of the budgeting and forecasting principles and procedure.

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

Notes

Hours of Work – 36.25 hours per week (full time), Monday to Friday.

Term of Employment – Full-time.

Location – Infrastructure Building, Edmonton.

Note: Candidates may be considered on a secondment basis, subject to approval from their home position/department. There may be an opportunity for the appointment to be extended beyond the initial term.

Final candidates will be required to undergo an academic credentials verification.

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

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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