Manager, Accommodations and Operations

Role Responsibilities

Are you ready to take on a pivotal leadership role where your systems thinking, agility, and strategic insight will directly shape the future of justice infrastructure in Alberta?
Join a dynamic team that delivers innovative vertical infrastructure solutions for the Ministry of Justice—everything from parking and telecom upgrades to furniture strategies, operational moves, and large scale capital projects for law court facilities across the province.

About the Role
As the Manager of Accommodations, you will lead the ministry’s annual Capital Planning Initiative (CPI) submission, working collaboratively with partners across Accommodations, Alberta Infrastructure (INFRA) Capital Planning, and Justice Financial Planning to advance high value, high impact capital project proposals to Treasury Board and Finance. Based in Edmonton and reporting to the Director, Accommodations, you will provide strategic and people leadership to a multidisciplinary team of Senior Accommodation Planners, a Facilities Coordinator, and a Parking & Administration Coordinator. Together, this group drives accommodations planning, service delivery, budget strategy, and long term capital visioning for the ministry.

What You’ll Do
In this role, you will:

• Oversee the full lifecycle of capital planning and capital project development—from early feasibility and business case creation through design, construction, and occupancy.
• Guide the assessment of evolving space requirements and translate them into capital project submissions and annual ministry priorities.
• Direct support services including furniture and equipment planning, office moves, maintenance coordination, and parking administration.
• Lead development of internal parking standards and manage allocations aligned with government policy.
• Strengthen processes, elevate service delivery, and cultivate strong, trust based relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Oversee work completed by external partners such as Infrastructure planners, project managers, furniture vendors, dealers, and consultants.

What You Bring

You are proactive, politically astute, and energized by fast paced, complex work. You thrive in environments where collaboration, creativity, and clear communication are essential. Your leadership experience enables you to guide teams through change, inspire high performance, and drive results.

You have:

• Significant experience leading complex teams and delivering multifaceted projects.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience with ARTS submissions, briefing notes, reports, and presentations.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Teams, the Microsoft Office Suite, database systems, and tools that support planning and project delivery.
• A proven track record of meeting timelines and delivering high quality results.
• (Assets) Working knowledge of project management methodologies and AutoCAD.
  
  

Why Join Us?

You’ll be part of a high energy team that takes pride in delivering impactful infrastructure solutions for justice facilities across Alberta. Your work will help shape safe, functional, and innovative spaces that support the justice system today and into the future.

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.

• Agility: the ability to adapt to ever-changing shifts in priority, available resources and political climate.
• Creative Problem Solving: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.
• Drive for Results: Knowing what outcomes are important and maximizing resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organization, while maintaining accountability to each other and external stakeholders.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.
• Develop Networks: Proactively building networks, connecting and building trust in relationships with different stakeholders.

Qualifications

University graduation in a related field such as Social Sciences, Business Administration or Public Administration/Management, or related discipline, plus a minimum of four years related experience is required. 

Equivalencies may be considered:

• A related Masters and two (2) years’ experience; Diploma and six (6) years’ experience.
• A related one-year certificate and seven (7) years’ experience; No post-secondary education and a minimum of eight (8) years’ related experience.
  
  

Required:

• Please outline how your experience relates to the qualifications in detail in your cover letter.  Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. 
• Experience supervising or leading staff (formal /informal). 
• Experience in Microsoft 365 Suite including (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook).
  
  

Assets:

• Demonstrated understanding of how to interpret stakeholder business needs and then translate them into recommendations.
• Experience in negotiation and dispute resolution.
• Experience working and collaborating with diverse groups of people, including facilitating multi-stakeholder groups. 
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative research approaches, including data analysis.
• Experience in the government financial/budgets, and planning cycles. 
• Experience and knowledge of project management principles, methodologies, processes and techniques.
• Understanding of GoA (Government of Alberta) procurement and contracting processes is considered an asset.
  
  

Candidates with lesser qualifications may be considered at a lower classification and salary.

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

Hours of work: Monday – Friday, 8:15 am - 4:30 pm (36.25/week).

Positions currently available: One (1) permanent.

Location: ATB Place North, 10025 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 1S6.

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.