Senior Capital Planner

Role Responsibilities

Children and Family Services is seeking an experienced professional to lead the development and delivery of the ministry’s accommodation capital plan—ensuring facilities that support vulnerable children, youth, and families are safe, sustainable, and aligned with future service needs.

Reporting to the Director of Accommodations, Capital Planning and Administration, the Senior Capital Planner is responsible for leading development, implementation and ongoing management of the Children and Family Services (CFS) ministry accommodation capital plan and annual capital project submission.  This includes a wide range of capital planning activities including assessment of existing ministry occupied and ministry supported agency occupied infrastructure as well as long-term strategic facility planning. You will conduct financial analysis and risk assessments to support strategic decision making and guide recommendations to senior officials. 

The position will develop and lead a prioritized facility renewal and maintenance capital grant program with targeted risk-based assessments. As required, the Senior Capital Planner will participate in project delivery, engaging with Infrastructure and ministry Senior Accommodation Planners and stakeholders to ensure projects are implemented to meet ministry operational requirements.

To be successful in this role, you will collaborate extensively with internal partners, other ministries, providers, and industry organizations to build consensus, coordinate priorities, and operationalize capital plans. 

Key Responsibilities:

•    Lead ministry-wide capital planning and budgeting: Coordinate the annual capital plan, small tenant improvement projects and capital equipment budgets, and quarterly fiscal updates; review, analyze, and prioritize
     capital project submissions to support decision-making.
•    Assess, evaluate, and prioritize capital project proposals: Analyze and score capital proposals using established criteria; prepare recommendations, scoring reports, and capital submission documentation.
•    Develop and maintain the capital planning framework: Research current and future capital needs, maintain scoring tools and processes, identify policy or process gaps, and recommend improvements to strengthen
      transparency and consistency.
•    Provide strategic oversight across the capital project lifecycle: Support early project definition and provide oversight during implementation by monitoring scope, budget, schedule, risks, and alignment with approved
     business cases and funding.
•    Lead the Unsolicited Proposal (USP) process and capital grants: Manage review of USP submissions, liaise with partners and INFRA, prepare capital grant documentation, and monitor funded projects for compliance and
     performance.
•    Build partnerships and support governance and reporting: Collaborate with Corporate Finance, INFRA, Treasury Board and Finance, NGOs, and internal stakeholders; prepare briefings, reports, and updates to support
     governance, accountability, and continuous improvement.

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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.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following competencies:

-    Build Collaborative Environments: Encourages broad thinking on projects and works to eliminate barriers to progress.
-    Agility: Proactively explains impact of change on roles and integrates change in existing work.
-    Systems Thinking: Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives.
-    Creative Problem Solving: Engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.
-    Drive for Results: Uses variety of resources to monitor own performance standards

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements: 

University graduation in a related field (Public Administration, Economics, Architecture, Construction Management, Planning, etc.) plus a minimum of 4 years of progressive experience. Project Management Professional certification is a strong preference.

Equivalencies: 

Directly related experience or education considered on the basis of one year of education or one year of education for one year of experience.

Assets:

•    Experience supporting full cycle project management of complex projects including diverse stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams. 
•    Extensive experience in capital planning, construction project scope development and project implementation, budgeting and financial acumen.
•    Strong grasp of market research and research methods, asset management principles (condition, risk, lifecycle), and the interrelationships among province, municipalities, for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and
      industry associations.
•    Experience with legislative/statutory requirements relevant to capital planning, project management, procurement and contract management in a public sector or infrastructure context.
•    Experience using Autocad.
•    Active Project Management designation or certification. 

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 are Monday to Friday – 36.25 hours per week.

Application Requirements:

As part of the application process, you are required to:
•    Complete all pre-screen questions.
•    A cover letter outlining why you are applying to this role and how your experience relates to the qualifications is required.
•    Complete any applicable pre-employment documentation requirements.

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.