Leadership Development and Strategy Consultant

Role Responsibilities

Are you excited by the opportunity to help build leadership capacity across the Alberta Public Service through practical strategies, frameworks, programs, and tools that support leaders at all levels — from emerging leaders to senior executives?

Leadership capacity is essential to a strong, responsive public service. The Leadership and Talent Management Branch is strengthening its corporate approach to leadership development. We design and deliver strategies, frameworks, programs, tools, and learning experiences that support current and future leaders at key points in their development.

As a Leadership Development and Strategy Consultant, you will help translate workforce priorities, leadership frameworks, talent insights, and evidence into scalable, implementation-ready solutions. Your work will connect leadership development with talent management, performance, succession, and workforce planning priorities across government.

What You’ll Do:

As a member of this team, you will:

• Design, develop, and modernize leadership development strategies, frameworks, programs, learning resources, and supporting tools.
• Lead projects from concept through approval, design, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Use workforce, talent, assessment, program, and environmental scan data to identify leadership gaps and emerging development needs.
• Prepare briefing notes, presentations, reports, business cases, and recommendations to support senior leader decision-making.
• Plan and lead stakeholder engagement activities, including consultations, working groups, focus groups, and project meetings.
• Partner with senior leaders, HR portfolio teams, Talent Management, Executive Search, vendors, and corporate services partners.
• Develop communications, launch materials, project and implementation plans, and change supports to encourage awareness, adoption, and participation.
• Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, track deliverables, and coordinate activities across multiple partners and workstreams.\
• Support program evaluation by collecting feedback, assessing outcomes, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Provide advice and consultation to leaders, HR partners, and stakeholders on leadership development approaches, tools, and practices.

Why This Work Matters

This work helps ensure leaders across the Alberta Public Service have the support they need to navigate complexity, develop their teams, and deliver results for Albertans. By connecting leadership development with talent, performance, succession, and workforce planning priorities, this role contributes to a stronger and more prepared public service.

What We’re Looking For

We're looking for a strategic and practical consultant who can move initiatives from concept to implementation. The ideal candidate combines expertise in leadership development with strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and implementation skills.

Role Responsibilities (Continued)

What You’ll Gain 

This role offers meaningful exposure and growth for professionals who want enterprise-wide impact. You will:

• Help shape leadership development approaches, tools, and programs used across the APS.
• Work on high-impact initiatives that support leadership readiness, development, and long-term public service capacity.
• Gain exposure to enterprise strategy, executive development, talent management, and public sector leadership transformation.
• Contribute to work that supports leaders, strengthens organizations, and benefits Albertans.

Join Us

If you are energized by complex systems work, enterprise impact and building leadership capacity for the future of public service, this is a rare opportunity to do meaningful work at scale.

Bring your expertise. Make a difference. Grow with us.

The Job Description is provided for further details on 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.

Systems Thinking: Integrates broader context, organizational trends, workforce priorities and enterprise risks into leadership development strategies and program planning.

Agility: Identifies and manages change, anticipates obstacles and adjusts approaches in uncertain or shifting environments while keeping enterprise outcomes in view.

Drive for Results: Takes responsibility for complex outcomes, manages scope and timelines, and ensures leadership development initiatives deliver practical value for the APS.

Build Collaborative Environments: Involves senior leaders, HR partners, Talent Management, vendors and other stakeholders to build shared understanding and support for enterprise approaches.

Creative Problem Solving: Uses evidence, consultation, learning design, analytics and stakeholder input to improve complex leadership development systems and address emerging needs.

Qualifications

Minimum Recruitment Standard: 

• Education: University graduation in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Adult Learning, Education, Business Administration, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Experience: Four years of progressively responsible related experience in leadership development, talent management, organizational development, corporate learning, strategic HR consulting, program design, or a related area.

Equivalency: Two –way
Directly related education or experience may be considered on the basis of:

• One year of education for one year of experience; or
• One year of experience for one year of education.

Role requirements:

Candidates must demonstrate experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Leadership development, talent management, organizational development, or corporate learning.
• Designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating leadership programs, learning resources, curricula, frameworks, learning pathways, or enterprise development initiatives
• Lead projects from concept through approval, procurement, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement, including the development and management of project plans, timelines, governance requirements, risks, and deliverables.
• Conducting research, environmental scans, analysis, engagement, or consultation to inform recommendations.
• Using data, feedback, evaluation, or evidence to improve programs, strategies, tools, or services.
  
• Providing advice, consultation, facilitation, or support to leaders, HR partners, or stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong project and program management skills, including the ability to manage timelines, risks, deliverables, and competing priorities.
• Strong consulting, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• The ability to translate information, research, feedback, and data into practical recommendations and implementation plans.
• The ability to work collaboratively across teams, ministries, vendors, and stakeholder groups to achieve enterprise outcomes.
• Sound judgment and the ability to balance stakeholder needs with enterprise standards and strategic priorities.
• A practical understanding of leadership development, adult learning, talent management, and/or current HR best practices.
  

Qualifications (Continued)

Assets include:

• Experience working within the Government of Alberta or a broader public sector environment.
• Experience with leadership assessment tools, succession planning, workforce planning, or talent development processes.
• Experience with change management, learning design, e-learning design, or program evaluation.
• Experience managing vendor relationships, procurement activities, contracts, deliverables, or quality assurance.
  
• Familiarity with APS corporate systems and processes.

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

Notes

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

These are permanent full-time positions.

This competition will be used to fill multiple Leadership Development and Strategy Consultant positions and 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 we have to offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information
• Professional learning and development
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.