Senior Policy Analyst

Role Responsibilities

Are you passionate about driving clarity, compliance, and public trust by shaping robust Access to Information policies and practices? If yes, please read on!

The position offers a unique opportunity to provide strategic and coordinated leadership for building policy capacity for the Access to Information and King’s Printer branch. Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will be responsible for the development, maintenance and enhancement of policy instruments and the development of the policy framework associated with the Access to Information Act (ATIA).

Other key responsibilities for the role include but not limited to:

• Address Issues and Opportunities Related to Access to Information.
• Represent enterprise-wide perspectives on access to information, ensuring alignment with government priorities and values.
• Develop briefing notes for Cabinet Committee Chairs, the Premier or Deputy Ministry or Executive Council.
• Develop and manage project plans, including time-lines, deliverables, and resource requirements, to ensure successful execution.
• Develop and maintain policy instruments that are meant to guide a disciplined approach to access to information. These policy instruments must continue to align with these complex, ever-changing requirements.
  
  

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 how your access and privacy decisions impact not only the client ministry but the broader Government of Alberta, ensuring consistency and alignment with cross-ministry priorities. You recognize the interdependencies between legislation, policy, and public interest, applying this lens to develop sound, strategic recommendations.
• Build Collaborative Environments: You lead and contribute to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.   You will partner with diverse internal and external stakeholders with the opportunity to mentor and coach junior staff to provide consistent, effective and efficient access to information services.
• Develop Networks: You proactively build networks, connecting, and building trusted relationships with different stakeholders. Strong human relations skills such as diplomacy, political astuteness, conflict resolution, proactive problem-solving, negotiating, influencing, and sensitivity are desired skills to interact with stakeholders.
• Creative Problem-Solving: You have the ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions. You will seek clarity and, constructively challenge the process to eliminate barriers to encourage creativity and innovation. Strong critical-thinking skills will provide benefits to successfully identifying alternative solutions.
• Agility: You adapt quickly to shifting priorities, tight deadlines, and emerging challenges while maintaining accuracy and compliance.
  You remain composed and solutions-focused in high-pressure situations, responding effectively to unexpected or complex access issues.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree (4 year program) in areas including Public Policy, Political Science, Communications, Business Administration or any other related field.
• Plus a minimum of 4 years of progressively responsible experience related to policy development.  
  
  

The following equivalencies may be considered:

• Two Year diploma with a minimum six years of related experience.
• Certificate with a minimum of seven years of related experience.
• No formal education with eight years of related experience.
  
  

The following will be considered assets:

• Master of Public Policy or related degree.
• Experience with the public policy development process, including issue identification, research, analysis, decision making, consultation, and implementation.
• Experience interpreting legislation, regulations and/or policies including experience with Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and/or the Access to Information Act.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including clear and concise writing ability, strong listening skills, public speaking and presentation skills, and diplomacy and professionalism.
• Experience drafting briefing notes.
• Knowledge of policy development cycle in government entity or in a public sector environment.

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

The competition will be used to fill one (1) permanent Senior Policy Analyst role.

The successful candidate will be required to work in Edmonton, scheduled Monday to Friday, 7.25 hours per day for a total of 36.25 hours per week.  

A remote work or hybrid arrangement is not offered. 

Please ensure your resume highlights how your previous work experience is related to the qualifications and requirements for this position. Resumes should clearly state the employment dates on your resume with the month and the year. This will be used to evaluate written communication and attention to detail required by this position.

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.
• 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.