Immigration Partnerships Advisor

Role Responsibilities

The Ministry of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as an Immigration Partnerships Advisor!

Reporting to the Manager, the Immigration Partnerships Advisor is responsible for providing specialized knowledge, analysis and information, as well as stakeholder engagement and partnership development, to support the Province's economic immigration strategies and initiatives, as well as Alberta's federal-provincial-territorial relations.

The Advisor's role is to provide subject matter expertise, engagement and advocacy support, and policy development on inter-government and international immigration initiatives, and support key engagement activities such as executive and Minister-level federal-provincial-territorial meetings, stakeholder engagements, and support inter-department collaboration and partnerships.

In your role as an Immigration Partnerships Advisor, you will:

• Support the development of international and federal-provincial-territorial networks and partnerships that support Alberta's immigration, labour and economic goals.
• Liaise with various key internal and external stakeholders to plan and execute strategic international and federal-provincial-territorial meetings, and forums.
• Provide subject matter expertise, research and analytic support to develop economic immigration strategies by assessing the political, immigration and labour environments in Alberta, Canada and international markets.
• Provide subject matter expertise, research and analytic support to develop Alberta perspectives and positions, strategic options, and direction/advice to senior decision-makers on international and federal-provincial-territorial immigration-related activities.
• Assist in external stakeholder engagements to highlight Alberta's strengths.
• Planning and managing projects to meet delivery timelines.
• Develop and maintain a level of competency in specific sectors and related subject areas in order to ensure a "leading edge" level of expertise to serve the department and partners.
• Provide feedback on issues and activities to aim towards the accomplishment of identified key branch results and strategies.
• Draft responses to Albertans and other stakeholders. Ensure Alberta's interests are reflected appropriately.
• Draft responses to action requests related to the unit's work. 

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.

In this role, you will contribute to our team by demonstrating the following behavioral competencies: 

• Agility - Sees the need and readily steps in to help others on the team; anticipates change and adapts behaviour accordingly, is nimble and open to changes; takes advantage of opportunities to improve program development and implementation processes.
• Build Collaborative Environments - Creates opportunities for project teams and stakeholder to share information; respects others' point-of-view, encourages or facilitates conflict resolution, recognizes performance of all groups involved.
• Develop Networks – To develop and maintain strong working relationships with various stakeholders to understand their needs and enable them to achieve success. Must work collaboratively.
• Drive for Results - Set and accomplish goals and priorities, factor in complexity of issues and align plans based on government direction, remove barriers to collaboration, provide informed advice.
• Systems Thinking – Consider relationships among initiatives and relation to department priority and expected project outcomes; integrates emerging trends; considers implications of different options when making decisions; thinks broadly about programs to consider how changes will be integrated and transitioned into existing operations.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• University graduation degree in a related field plus 4 years progressively responsible related experience; or equivalent as described below.
• For application consideration, you must attach a cover letter explaining your qualification and suitability for this role.
   

Equivalency:
 

• Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:  
• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience  
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education  
   
  
  

The following knowledge or experiences are considered as assets: 

• Knowledge of key concepts in Canadian intergovernmental relations, as well as international labour mobility. 
  Knowledge of economic immigration policy objectives and programs and ability to align work activities with those objectives.
• Knowledge of policy and strategy development, and research and analytic techniques. 
  Understanding of current international, economic, political and social issues.
• Experience with developing briefing notes, conducting research, preparing reports, presenting and conducting analysis.
• Experience in stakeholder engagements.
• Foreign Language(s) skills and superior English verbal and written skills.
• Experience in developing and retaining cross-divisional, ministerial, and external stakeholder relationships.
• Demonstrated skills in the area of project management.
• Organization and prioritization skills to balance multiple ongoing projects at one time and ability to meet tight timelines and a strong attention to detail.

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 is a temporary full-time position working 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday.  

This position is located Edmonton, Alberta.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Also, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part time or full time.

As part of the interview, short listed applicants may perform a written assignment.

The final candidate may undergo pre-employment checks and reference checks.

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 Governement of Alberta has to offer to prospective employees:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.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.
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.