Regulatory Excellence Officer

Role Responsibilities

Are you ready to step into a role where your ability to think critically, analyze complex information, and communicate with clarity truly makes an impact? As a regulatory excellence officer with Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction, you’ll draw on your policy expertise and research methodology experience to uncover insights, evaluate evidence, and craft well‑reasoned recommendations that drive effective decision‑making. If you thrive on thoughtful analysis and turning complexity into actionable understanding, this role is built for you.

Reporting to the Director, Strategic Policy, as the Regulatory Excellence Officer, you bring a solid understanding of policy, research, analysis, and data management to support and advance strategic priorities in relation to the Government of Alberta RTR mandate, along with key internal and external engagement activities.

In this position, you will provide project management and outreach support to the Government of Alberta's regulatory excellence efforts and support cross-ministry efforts to track, measure, and reduce regulatory burden. This position requires a broad knowledge of project management, government decision-making processes, policy development, data management, and an understanding of stakeholder engagement principles and creative engagement strategies.

Your main responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Drafting briefing notes, correspondence, and related written materials for multiple audiences, considering the audience's needs and level of knowledge.
• Tracking departmental RTR initiatives.
• Assisting with the development and management of tools to support the estimation and reduction of regulatory compliance costs.
• Supporting the planning and development of RTR legislation.
• Working across government to review, analyze and organize priority stakeholder submission data along with public form submissions and email correspondence.
• Researching and applying cross-jurisdictional best practices in regulatory excellence.
• Supporting projects and strategic programming related to government's RTR mandate, including permit decision times and implementation of the Automatic Yes policy and toolkit.
• Reviewing documents with a creative and engagement lens.
• Supporting strategic engagement with industry and other external stakeholders, through methods including roundtables.
• Supporting a strong community of practice across the government of Alberta to facilitate implementation of RTR priorities.

As the regulatory excellence officer, you will also communicate with other government partners on regulatory burden tracking and actively promote a culture of regulatory excellence when engaging with both internal and external stakeholders.

To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

• Agility and the ability to adapt and be flexible.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office with particular emphasis on Excel.
• Ability to work with a wide variety of data, and summarize and present draft findings and reports.
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Good judgement.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to function pro-actively and independently while contributing effectively within a team.
• Strong writing capability, on various platforms and the ability to write for multiple audiences.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

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 – you consider interrelationships and emerging trends to attain goals.
• Agility – you identify and manage required change and the associated risks.
• Drive for results – you take and delegate responsibility for outcomes.
• Creative problem solving – you engage the community and resources at hand to address issues.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• A bachelors degree in Political Science, Public Administration, or Economics. Other related fields may be considered.
• Equivalencies will be considered on a basis of one year of related experience for one year of education.
  
  

Experience or knowledge that will be considered and asset:

• Theoretical knowledge of research methodologies, data analysis, and program development.
• Work experience in program or policy research.
• Experience with or knowledge of government structure and processes.
• Experience with or knowledge of program delivery from inception to completion, including program evaluation.
• Experience with or knowledge of research methodologies and techniques, statistics, economics, and project planning.
• Work experience in project management.
• Work experience with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Work experience in SharePoint and CRM (Dynamics).
• Work experience summarizing and presenting a wide variety of data.
  
  

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: 7.25 hours a day / 36.25 hours a week.

Term of Employment: There are 2 full-time, temporary opportunities available for one year with the possibility of extension.

Pre-employment checks:
Pre-employment checks will be completed to assess the candidate’s suitability for a role. These checks can include (but are not limited to): references, criminal record check, academic verification, driver’s abstract, et.c. 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.
• 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.