Manager, Municipal Viability

Role Responsibilities

The Manager of Municipal Viability leads a dedicated team that works with municipalities across Alberta to support their long-term sustainability. This role is central to implementing the province’s legislative framework for municipal restructuring and guiding decisions that address current and future needs.

As a strategic leader, you will foster collaboration, provide direction, and ensure excellence in delivering programs related to municipal viability, including dissolutions, amalgamations, and other structural changes. You will also provide expert advice in complex or sensitive situations, requiring innovative approaches and strong analytical skills.


Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Municipal Restructuring & Viability Reviews: Manage the viability review program and oversee restructuring processes such as dissolutions, amalgamations, and status changes.
• Policy & Legislative Implementation: Apply the Municipal Government Act and other provincial legislation to guide restructuring and viability initiatives.
• Strategic Leadership: Empower and support staff to achieve program objectives, remove barriers, and track deliverables.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build trust and maintain relationships with municipalities, councils, and internal/external partners.
• Project & Change Management: Drive multiple concurrent initiatives, applying innovative solutions to complex and politically sensitive issues.
• Human Resource Management: Supervise, coach, and develop staff while fostering a culture of collaboration, respect, and innovation.
• Special Initiatives: Support ministry-wide projects and manage appointments of official administrators or supervisors for municipalities.
  
  

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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.

• Build Collaborative Environments– Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict. Consults with internal stakeholders on policy approaches to legislated intervention processes to ensure procedural fairness and minimize legal risks
• Agility – Creates opportunities for improvement and is aware of and adapts to changing priorities.
• Drive for Results  – Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes
• System Thinking – Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them
• Creative Problem Solving – Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues, engages perspective to seek root causes, finds ways to improve complex systems.
  
  

Qualifications

Required:

• University Degree in the following (but not limited to) areas: Public Administration, Political Science,  Business, Social Science or a related field plus 4 years of progressively responsible related experience with program delivery for municipal clients.
• Experience leading a team in a high-volume work environment is required. Knowledge of the Municipal Government Act is also required.
  
  

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; OR 
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.
  
  

Assets:

• In depth knowledge, understanding and application of provincial legislation affecting municipalities, specifically the Municipal Government Act, the Local Authorities Election Act and the Access to Information Act, and respective regulations, with a specific emphasis on municipal governance, administration, and restructuring.
• In depth understanding of the social, political and organizational processes of implementing and managing change and communicate this knowledge and understanding to staff and senior management.  
• Extensive knowledge and experience with program development for complex municipal operations, administration and governance with a focus on council responsibilities, administrative reporting, services and finances.  
• Extensive knowledge of consultation processes, project management, conflict resolution and facilitation of major change management processes.  
• Working knowledge of municipal structure and operations including governance, finance, planning, taxation and assessment, and how the relationship between the administration and council operate.
• General knowledge of other legislation affecting municipalities, including how other Ministry's grant programs or legislation impact restructured municipalities or types of regional services commissions.
  
  

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

Applicants are required to submit a cover letter along with their resume. Only applications with a cover letter will be reviewed.

• 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.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• 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.