Program Advisor

Role Responsibilities

Program Advisor
The Community Initiatives Support (CIS) Unit provides leadership and oversight of Alberta's approach to community-based crime prevention and community safety initiatives, including building and maintaining relationships with community and other stakeholders, and developing and managing approximately $10 million in grant funding to support community-based programs and services that aim to reduce crime and social disorder in the province. 

Community Initiatives Supports has two positions available for professionals looking to leverage their skills in a dynamic environment. Roles and responsibilities include:

1. Support the coordination and development of transformative community safety programs and initiatives.

• Completes environmental scanning, research, and analysis activities to determine strategic information, trends, and impacts pertaining to community safety programs and best practices.
• Develops materials for meetings with stakeholders, including meeting agendas, terms of reference, stakeholder analysis, summaries and charts and presentations.
• Supports the development of advice and recommendations for ministry representatives on strategic decisions relating to community safety in Alberta. 
• Monitor and addresses stakeholder questions and liaise with stakeholders to understand trends, issues and barriers surrounding community safety programs. 
• Attends stakeholder events and meetings to provide logistical support, direction and information to stakeholders.

2. Coordinates development of Action Requests and briefing/meeting materials and correspondence.

• Writes and edits ministerial briefings, action request responses, and correspondence, including presentation materials, on various topics relating to crime prevention and community safety strategies and initiatives, issues, meetings and events, including information requests from other departments.
• Coordinates across department to ensure ministry position and relevant division policies and programs are accurately reflected in responses and materials.
• Researches and verifies facts and information associated with work assignments.
• Composes responses, considering the author's style and position, and ensuring consistency, clarity, conciseness and accuracy of messages.
• Develops information products for leadership related to stakeholder initiatives, activities and events, including key messages, background materials, presentations. 
• Drafts original content for internal and external websites and communication materials. 

3. Build effective, collaborative relationships with external stakeholders.

• Facilitate the sharing of trends, issues and best practices by working closely with stakeholder organizations and facilitating connections across the system.
• Leverage subject matter expertise and advice from stakeholders to ensure management team is aware of critical issues and has appropriate information to make decisions. 
• Engage with diverse populations who possess varying levels of knowledge or lived experience related to crime prevention and community safety.
• Build and strengthen positive working relationships with and among Indigenous communities, community organizations, stakeholders and government.

Policy and Research Analyst

Reporting to the Manager, Indigenous Programs and Policy, the Policy and Research Analyst provides research, policy analysis, coordination and support relating to Indigenous people in the justice system and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The position performs all work with an integrated, systems approach, to ensure the interests and priorities of the department and of the Government of Alberta (GOA) are effectively represented. 

This position will provide support for the advancement of the Ministry's Indigenous policies and programs, as well as policy and research support more broadly. The position will support and assist others in the Community and Public Safety Services Branch, when needed.

The Strategy, Support and Integrated Initiatives Division fosters an enterprise-wide approach to policy development by coordinating policy and strategic initiatives across the ministry, and provides analysis, coordination, and support. The position requires strategic and systems thinking, and fosters collaboration, by liaising and engaging with staff in the branch, ministry, and across government, to achieve the required outcomes. The position requires work to be performed on multiple projects simultaneously with varying time lines. The work supports high-level decision-making within the department. When completing projects, the Analyst considers the results within the broader branch and ministry environment, drawing on the application and broad understanding of the branch and ministry's business functions and priorities.

The position requires a highly self-motivated individual with sound judgment and excellent communication skills.  This position is required to liaise with key internal and external stakeholders and will represent Alberta Public Safety and Emergency Services in cross-ministry project teams and external committees.

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
• Agility
• Develop Networks
• Drive for Results
• Creative Problem Solving

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements (all positions):

• University graduation in a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years related experience, or equivalent. Equivalencies will be considered based on one-year experience for one year of education or one year of education for one year of experience.
• Strong written communication skills and attention to detail, demonstrated in cover letter.

Assets (all positions):

• Experience in the completion of research and report writing.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel), Adobe Pro, Visio.
• Experience developing and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders or clients.

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

Full time permanent positions located in the John E. Brownlee Building, Edmonton.

Hours of work: 7.25 hours per day / 36.25 hours per week (Monday – Friday).

Successful 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. 

What we offer:

• 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.
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement.
• Leadership and mentorship opportunities.