Grants & Business Services Manager

Role Responsibilities

Are you passionate about reducing drought and flood impacts, increasing community resilience and supporting a branch that delivers critical river information and public safety services? Consider applying to join us as our Grants and Business Services Manager!

Reporting to the Director, Resilience Infrastructure and Grants, the Grants and Business Services Manager oversees the branch's drought and flood grant programs. These capital grants are a key tool for the government to support Alberta municipalities, Improvement Districts, Special Areas, Métis settlements, and First Nations in building community resilience and protecting critical infrastructure from flooding and drought, and ensuring public safety.

Under the your leadership, a team of Grant Coordinators will deliver the new multi-year $125M Drought and Flood Protection Program (DFPP), oversee ongoing administration of $278M in grants under the Alberta Community Resilience Program (ACRP), oversee the closeout of remaining Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program (ICIP) and Flood Recovery and Erosion Control (FREC) grants, and manage a variety of other drought and flood mitigation grants.

You will also leads and empower the Environmental Knowledge and Prediction (EKP) Branch's administrative team, which supports all sections of the branch. The administrative team enables the ~80 FTEs in EKP to deliver on multiple departmental priorities by providing support in budgeting, financial tracking, procurement, operational planning, travel and meeting logistics, internal and external communications, and general administration.

Responsibilities include:
•    Leading staff in all aspects of grant management to ensure provincially funded projects effectively reduce risks to public safety and financial liabilities while following established departmental practices, including the adherence to reporting requirements.
•    Leading staff through annual and multi-year budget planning cycles, including the collection and refinement of project budgets, consolidation of branch budget needs and delivery to the Executive Director for approval. 
•    Providing leadership for administrative staff, including ensuring they understand assigned work and priorities. 
•    Leading the branch's business supports, including financial administration, general administration, and leading branch business planning, operational planning, annual reporting and input to Auditor General assessments and audits.

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

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

How Competencies will apply to this role: 

Agility: Adapting to changing environmental, political, and stakeholder directions requires the  manager to proactively address obstacles and modify approaches in order to achieve the desired outcomes of grant programs.

Drive for Results: Must work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to manage issues arising from competing needs, finite resources, and unforeseen challenges, ensuring the integrity of both the grant program and the government's reputation.

Develop Self and Others: Grow and develop the grants and administrative teams, ensuring they have the environment, knowledge, and skills necessary to perform to their full potential.

Develop Networks: Maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders requires open and transparent engagement. This fosters collaboration and ensures grant programs deliver the long-term outcomes expected by the department and elected officials.

Systems Thinking: To effectively deliver grant programs, knowledge of complex government financial and grant management systems, stakeholder expectations, and the associated political and environmental risks is key.

Qualifications

Required: 
•    A completed university degree in business, finance, public administration, law, science, natural resources, or other related fields.
•    Minimum of 4 years of related experience with increasing supervisory, grant and financial responsibilities. 

Equivalences may be considered: Additional related education considered in lieu of experience on a one-for-one basis. 

Assets
Sound knowledge and understanding of:
•    Government administrative and financial processes and systems.
•    Government contract and grant management, reporting and analysis.
•    Project management, change management and issues management. 
•    Related legislation, regulations, directives and policies. 
•    Government strategic business plans, goals, policy direction and mandates.
•    Government internal administrative policies, processes, and practices.
•    Strategic business and operational planning theories, methodologies, principles and techniques. 
•    Innovative and creative thinking as well as strategic thinking skills.
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to coach, mentor, and negotiate. 

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

•    This competition is for 1 full-time permanent position located in Edmonton. 
•    Monday – Friday, 7.25 hours per day / 36.25 hours per week.

Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.

Any costs associated with obtaining 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.

Instructions for your Resume:

For Employment Experience:
Please indicate duration of employment (month, year)
Please specify employment status (i.e. casual, part-time or full-time)
E.g.: Youth Worker, Jan 2006 - June 2009, Part-time (three, 8 hour shifts/week)

For any Post-Secondary Education:
Please specify your major and length of program
Please specify the year you graduated
E.g.: Bachelor of Social Work, 4-year Degree (Graduated 2017)

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees.

•    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.
•    Alberta Public Service Benefit Information –  https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
•    Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-human-resource-directives.
•    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 agreements.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.