Senior Intergovernmental Officer

Role Responsibilities

Are you interested in supporting Alberta’s priorities through meaningful intergovernmental collaboration? The department is seeking a strategic and highly organized professional to support Federal Provincial Territorial (FPT) and international relations work that advances key departmental and cross government priorities.

In this role, you will provide centralized coordination and strategic support for FPT activities, working closely with internal partners, other Government of Alberta ministries, and counterparts across Canada. You will support senior leaders through high quality briefings, relationship building, and effective coordination of complex files.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and support departmental FPT and international relations activities to ensure Alberta’s priorities are clearly represented.
• Prepare and coordinate briefing materials for the Minister, Deputy Minister, and Assistant Deputy Minister(s).
• Lead and coordinate the work of policy staff supporting the FPT portfolio.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal partners and FPT counterparts.
• Identify emerging issues and provide strategic advice to support informed decision making.
• Coordinate information sharing across divisions and maintain FPT tools, including SharePoint.
• Support or represent Alberta at FPT working groups, as required.
  
  

If this opportunity aligns with your experience, we encourage you to apply.

Please click on this link to view the job description.

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.

• Agility: Regularly adapts to changing priorities, adjusts projects and deliverables to take advantage of opportunities, explains the impact of changes to tasks to management.
• Drive for Results: Works in projects teams to complete tasks and own performance, and ensures assigned actions are completed in a way consistent with direction and required timelines.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Uses own enthusiasm and commitment to higher-level goals to motivate and guide others to achieve results.
• Systems Thinking: Considers the whole system when evaluating, researching, and conducting policy analysis, including shifting political and policy realities in jurisdictions across the Canadian federation and internationally.
• Creative Problem Solving: Uses research and analysis to find ways to improve systems. Employs subject matter experts from other areas to solve problems
• Develops Networks: Cultivates positive relationships internally in the department with key partners to support the effective coordination of intergovernmental initiatives. 

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements: 

• University graduation in a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years related policy experience.
  
  

Assets:

• Experience with Canadian federalism.
• Experience with government systems, policy cycle and policy approval processes.
• Experience in project management, especially across diverse functional areas, stakeholders and teams (e.g., stakeholder groups, cross-ministry teams, pan-Canadian and international stakeholders, governments).
• Experience preparing documents, reports, briefings and/or presentations providing recommendations to senior leadership.
  
  

Please outline how your qualifications relate to the role in your cover letter.  Providing a cover letter is strongly encouraged as your written skills will be evaluated through your cover letter. Ensure to upload the cover letter when applying to this Job ad, not in your general profile.

The following equivalencies may be considered:

• Masters plus 2 year's related experience.
• Diploma plus 6 years' related experience.
• Certificate plus 7 years' related experience.
• 8 years of related experience in lieu of formal education
  
  

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

• (2) full-time permanent positions
• Location: Edmonton, AB. Consideration may be given to an alternate Calgary location, subject to operational requirements. 
• Hours of work: 7.25 hours per day / 36.25 hours per week (Monday – Friday).
• Successful candidates will be required to undergo 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.

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.