Senior Branch Coordinator

Role Responsibilities

If you are looking to become part of a team of fantastic professionals that support Albertans to experience some of our most iconic landscapes, this is the job for you! 

The Senior Branch Coordinator assists in managing key projects, supports divisional priorities, and ensures timely, coordinated delivery of strategic planning as well as capital development initiatives. You would be at the heart of shaping Alberta’s parks agenda with a focus on communication, policy, and organizational excellence.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
•    Manage issues and initiatives to ensure timely progress.
•    Review and/or develop various documents resulting in appropriate communication, understanding of issues, and recommended actions.
•    Lead/participate/assist with divisional activities resulting in activity completion and initiative progress.
•    Communicate and liaise both within the department and externally to ensure important information and understanding are retained.
•    Support the Executive Director in organizing, coordinating, and communicating the divisional business plan items, operational plans, and quarterly reporting plans with the regions and the Assistant Deputy Minister's office and other divisions or departments.
•    Supervise administrative positions supporting divisional accountabilities.
 

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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.

Systems Thinking: Takes a long-term, holistic view of challenges and opportunities, anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives, and collaborates with others to align actions and plans with APS values.

Creative Problem Solving: Focuses on continuous improvement by asking questions to understand problems, exploring new ways to enhance results, sharing lessons from successful projects, and collecting diverse data and perspectives to inform decisions.

Drive for Results: Works to exceed goals by planning based on past experience, holding oneself and others accountable for results, partnering with groups to achieve outcomes, and aiming to surpass expectations.

Build Collaborative Environments: Collaborates across functional areas by encouraging broad thinking, eliminating barriers, facilitating communication, proactively addressing conflict, recognizing others' contributions, and promoting collaboration and commitment.
 

Qualifications

Education:
University graduation in a related field (such as parks, infrastructure, natural resource management, public or business administration) plus 4 years progressively responsible related experience; or equivalent as described below. 

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.

Additional Requirements:
•    exceptional organizational, communication and information management skills.
•    the ability to shift priorities in accordance with the evolving strategic requirements.
•    the ability to distill disparate pieces of information from a variety of sources in order to synthesize the information into a clarified, holistic product.
•    an ability to work within corporate processes to manage and resolve issues while ensuring information flow with the necessary individuals.

Assets:
•    Broad knowledge base related to parks, land use and resource management, environmental and outdoor recreation and tourism sectors. 
•    Some knowledge and experience in GoA contracting and procurement procedures, engagement, and strategic policies. 
•    Experience communicating with both internal and external stakeholders and rightsholders such as staff, indigenous groups, recreation groups, environmental organizations, municipalities, etc.
•    Proficiency with Microsoft Suite products including SharePoint, Teams, and PowerPoint. 

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

In your resume:
Include date ranges (month and year) associated with all education and work experience.
Indicate whether your work experience was casual, part time (PT) or full time (FT).
Example:  Executive Assistant: Jan 2016 – June 2019 (PT, 3 eight-hour shifts per week).

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 the GoA has to 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.
•    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 programs.