Manager, Data Collections

Role Responsibilities

Do you have a librarian’s soul? A drive to organize the chaos, implement standards, and automate processes? Do you wish we could find high quality information quickly and easily?

As the Data Collections Manager, you will lead core post‑secondary data collections for Advanced Education, ensuring the Department and advanced learning system have high‑quality, reliable enrolment, application, financial, and tuition data for analytics, accountability, and policy development.

In this role, you will build strong stakeholder relationships: balancing business requirements with red tape reduction, and supporting post-secondary institution contacts to submit and access learning system data.

You will play a critical role in making data accessible, reliable, and usable for government, post-secondary institutions, and the public.

To do this work, you will apply key legislation including the Tuition and Fees Regulation, the Protection of Privacy Act, and the Post‑Secondary Learning Act.

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.

• Systems Thinking - Understands and acts with an awareness of the many stakeholders involved in data management across the department’s business areas and IT supports. Demonstrates strong analytical skills and sound judgment to move siloed data systems and processes toward a more integrated model. Clearly articulates a desired future state to engage partners and build support for change.

• Creative Problem Solving - Encourages creativity in themselves and in staff to enable novel solutions. Asks the right questions to deepen understanding of human, business, and IT issues. Demonstrates strong communication skills across all settings.

• Drive for Results - Plans for and delivers results, from concrete deliverables to process improvements, managing resources effectively, and ensuring attention to detail.

• Build Collaborative Environments - Focuses on authentic relationships that leverage the expertise, ingenuity, and effort of staff and colleagues across the Department, government, and the advanced learning system.

Qualifications

University graduation in Library Science, Data Science, Arts, Public Administration, and Economics or in a field related to the position assignment, supplemented by four years related experience. Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

The position requires strengths in the following areas:

• Leading healthy, innovative teams
• Managing stakeholder relationships
• Implementing continuous improvement in data management and governance, including standard data documentation (data dictionaries, business glossaries, data models, etc.)
• Communicating complex data to an executive audience
• Analyzing data, especially descriptive statistics
• Familiarity with concepts related to post-secondary learning delivery, measurement, and credentials such as full-load equivalent, work-integrated learning, etc.
• Experience working with databases and data warehouses, including writing and automating queries in SQL, Python, etc.

The following knowledge and skills will be considered assets:

• Experience applying artificial intelligence tools to data management and governance in a public sector context
• Experience bringing a data lens to IT system builds
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations including the Protection of Privacy Act and the Tuition and Fees Regulation.
• Knowledge of Alberta's advanced learning system (providers, sectors, governance)

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 full-time position working onsite 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

The position location is Edmonton.

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.

A cover letter outlining how your experience relates to the qualifications of this role is required.

As part of the selection process, shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a written assignment as part of the interview process.

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 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.