Director, Talent Management

Role Responsibilities

Are you ready to influence leadership at the highest levels and build a stronger future for Alberta? As Director, Talent Management, you’ll lead enterprise-wide strategies that ensure leadership continuity, talent readiness, and organizational capacity across the Alberta Public Service.

Why This Role Matters
Your work will directly shape how the Government of Alberta develops its next generation of leaders. You’ll design and deliver programs that strengthen executive talent pipelines, integrate succession planning with leadership development, and provide actionable insights to senior decision-makers.

What You’ll Do
•    Lead Strategic Talent Initiatives: Design and implement government-wide programs for executive assessment, succession planning, and leadership development.
•    Drive Data-Informed Decisions: Oversee talent reviews, assessment methodologies, and dashboards that inform executive appointments and development.
•    Champion Equity & Consistency: Establish policies and tools that ensure fair, transparent, and aligned talent practices across departments.
•    Collaborate at the Highest Level: Partner with deputy ministers, senior executives, HR portfolio teams, and external vendors to deliver integrated talent strategies.
•    Inspire & Lead a High-Performing Team: Guide a diverse team of specialists in talent management, analytics, and program design.

What You Will Bring
•    Proven ability to lead diverse teams and influence senior stakeholders.
•    Expertise in data-driven decision-making, program design, and change management.
•    Experience in large, complex public sector environments is an asset.
•    Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills to work effectively with executives and external partner.

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

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviours 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: Integrates broader context into planning.
•    Drive for Results: Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes.
•    Creative Problem Solving: Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues.
•    Develop Networks: Makes working with a wide range of parties an imperative.
•    Build Collaborative Environments: Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict.

Qualifications

Minimum recruitment standard: University graduation in Public Administration, Business, HR Management or other related field, supplemented by seven years of progressive experience in Talent Management, Leadership Development, or executive HR functions.

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

Role requirements:
•    Talent assessment methodologies.
•    Data analytics and dashboard reporting.
•    Policy development and program design.
•    Strategic thinking and influencing senior leaders.
•    Strong communication and negotiation.
•    Change management and collaboration.
•    Leadership and team development.

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.

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

 This is a permanent full-time position.

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

Final candidates will 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. 

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.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.