Executive Director, Child Care Administration

Job Information

Job Title: Executive Director, Child Care Administration

Job Requisition ID:   85588

Ministry:  Education and Childcare

Location:  Alberta (Edmonton, Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Fort McMurray or Grande Prairie)

Full or Part-Time:  Full Time

Hours of Work:  36.25

Regular/Temporary:  Regular

Scope:  Open Competition

Closing Date:  July 24, 2026

Classification:  Executive Manager I

About Us

Alberta Education and Childcare supports children, students, parents, teachers and administrators from childcare and Early Childhood Services through Grade 12.

For further information, visit the ministry website at https: https://www.alberta.ca/education-and-childcare

Role

Reporting to the Assistant Deputy Minister, Child Care Delivery, the Executive Director is directly accountable for overseeing more than $2 billion in funding for child care programs to support families and early childhood educators across Alberta. The role plays a key part in advancing child care affordability objectives while strengthening accountability, fiscal oversight, and service delivery across the system. The Executive Director is also responsible for maintaining financial standards established in legislation and agreements with the federal government for the distribution of child care grant funding. This includes ensuring strong financial stewardship, timely payments, and streamlined delivery systems, continuous improvement, and effective risk management. 

This position provides leadership and strategic direction to the Child Care Administration Branch across early learning and child care programs, services, initiatives, and projects throughout the province. Through strategic thinking and results orientation, the position develops and implements policies and programs to ensure the business plan goals and objectives are achieved. The Executive Director role also requires responsiveness to stakeholder inquiries and provides strategic leadership for maintaining partnerships with public and private sector child care programs, partnerships with other ministries, governments, community and contracted provincial/federal associations, academic institutions, and others, all with the aim of engaging communities and individuals to enhance quality child care and positive outcomes for children and families. This position is accountable for maintaining fiscal standards set out in legislation and agreement with the federal government. It also interacts with senior officials across jurisdictions, within the government and child care sector.

Qualifications

You are an influential and credible leader with extensive senior leadership experience and exceptional financial acumen. You bring expertise in financial controls, grants, contracts, procurement, and debt instruments, along with a proven track record of strengthening programs, enhancing controls, driving efficiencies, and leading change within complex, high-profile, multi-stakeholder environments. Recognized for delivering results, you demonstrate strong strategic leadership and experience in policy development and implementation. You exercise sound judgment and effectively navigate competing priorities, politically sensitive issues, and emerging challenges. As an agile and effective leader, you motivate teams to achieve results and foster a culture of accountability and high performance. Knowledge of government decision-making processes is considered an asset. Success in this role requires strong executive leadership capabilities and the ability to provide strategic financial oversight and direction.

A Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation or equivalent professional credential is preferred, and a Certified Internal Audit or Chartered Financial Analyst designation is considered an asset. Experience in positions with a high level of financial management and oversight is essential. Success in this role requires strong financial acumen, negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, as well as a solid understanding of issues management. The ability to inspire high performance, build effective relationships, and apply well-developed political acumen and agility will be critical to achieving organizational priorities.

Bachelor’s Degree is required, ideally supplemented with a CPA or CIA Designation.

Salary

$5,896.65 - $7,749.28 bi-weekly ($153,902.57 - $202,256.21 yearly)

Notes

Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening. 

Travel Required – Up to 20%

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer:

• Compensation Overview – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca
• Working for the Alberta Public Service – https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx 
• Pension plans:
  • Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) – https://www.mepp.ca
• Leadership and mentorship programs
• Professional learning and development
• Opportunity to participate in an interim hybrid work schedule (per Alberta Public Service policy) of up to two days working from your home office.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca

Please see the attached position profile for more information on position responsibilities. Search Profile

How to Apply

Click on the “Apply Now” button.  

Candidates are required to apply for a job online. Please visit https://www.alberta.ca/navigating-online-jobs-application.aspx to learn more about creating a candidate profile and other tips for the Government of Alberta’s online application system.

If you are not currently an employee with the Government of Alberta, the first step in applying for a job is creating your candidate profile within our online application system, click here to access the main log in page where you are able to ‘Create an account’, reset your password (‘Forgot your password’) or ‘Sign In’ should you already have an account.

Existing employees should access the Career tile in 1GX to submit their application in order to be recognized as an internal applicant.

Once you have created your candidate profile, visit the Alberta Public Service job site to apply for jobs at https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-jobs.aspx

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.  

Resources for applicants:

https://www.alberta.ca/apply-for-jobs-with-the-alberta-public-service.aspx

https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-hiring-process.aspx

https://alis.alberta.ca/look-for-work/

It is recommended applicants who have completed post-secondary studies from outside of Canada obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS) or from recognized Canadian Credential Evaluator; please visit the Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada for more information.  

Closing Statement

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

If you require any further information on this job posting or a copy of the role profile, and/or require a disability related accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Executive Search at psc.executivesearchservices@gov.ab.ca.

If this competition is closed as per the closing date noted above, please continue to check http://www.jobs.alberta.ca for a listing of current career opportunities with the Government of Alberta.