Manager, Strategic Evaluation

Role Responsibilities

The Corporate Accountability and Planning (CAP) Branch is seeking an enthusiastic leader with considerable experience defining, leading, designing, implementing and coordinating evaluation activities to ensure that evaluation-related activities are undertaken in support of the ALSS Performance Management Framework (PMF) and program-level Performance Management (Accountability) frameworks.

The Strategic Evaluation function is responsible for the ministry’s strategic evaluation schedule and is mandated to establish and maintain a coordinated and consistent approach to evaluation in ALSS, an evaluation planning approach, and to lead strategic evaluations of the ministry’s priority initiatives, policies, programs and services.

The Manager, Strategic Evaluation exists to provide leadership, strategic direction, technical expertise, capacity building, and advice to ministry representatives across divisions and regions involved with evaluation initiatives and projects. The manager leads the development of the ministry’s strategic evaluation function, promotes the utilization of evaluation findings, and ensures that evaluation activities reinforce the ministry’s accountability and performance reporting committments.

This position supervises a team of permanent analysts and serves as a member of the management team for the branch and performs the duties of the Director of the QAA unit or Executive Director of the CAP branch, during their absences and when requested.

This position reports to the Director, Quality Assurance and Accountability and would be working within the scope of relevant legislation and policies.

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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.

Qualifications

Required:

• A minimum of a social science or related undergraduate degree (graduate degree preferred) or equivalencies (social sciences, human ecology, public policy, public administration, education, or other related discipline).
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience leading and managing evaluation projects and initiatives.
• Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.
• Advanced knowledge of social science and evaluation research design and methodologies, quantitative analytics, and outcomes data collection.
• Advanced understanding of how to communicate, disseminate, and mobilize evaluation findings for decision-making and continuous improvement. 
• Significant demonstrated experience in project management. 

Assets:

• Experience supervising and leading staff.

Other:

• Cover letter is a requirement. 
  
  

As part of the candidate assessment process, the cover letter and resume will be evaluated on grammatical accuracy (spelling, grammar, etc.), clarity, and logical structure.

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: 36.25 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

One full time permanent position to be filled in Edmonton, AB.

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.

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.