Senior Policy Analyst

Role Responsibilities

Are you a strategic thinker and an analytical problem solver with a passion for developing impactful policies in a dynamic and evolving environment? As a Senior Policy Analyst on the iGaming team, you’ll take the lead in crafting and managing legislative and strategic policy frameworks that support Alberta’s innovative iGaming model. This role requires a sharp analytical mind to navigate complex, high-priority challenges, anticipate regulatory impacts, and deliver creative, evidence-based solutions. With a strong focus on collaboration, you’ll work closely with government ministries, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to build consensus and ensure alignment with Alberta’s strategic goals. If you thrive on solving intricate policy issues, managing diverse projects, and driving meaningful change, this is the perfect opportunity to make a real difference. Join us and put your analytical expertise to work shaping Alberta’s iGaming future!

Reporting to the Manager, Strategic Policy and Social Responsibility, as the Senior Policy Analyst, you will function within applicable government and ministry legislation, policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards. You will collaborate with the iGaming team and take a lead role to:

• Develop and project manage legislative and strategic policy frameworks supporting Alberta's iGaming model, including social responsibility; policies and appointments pertaining to agencies, boards, and commissions as required; briefing and Cabinet materials, correspondence, and corporate policy priorities in support of the ministry's strategic planning goals and objectives.
• Work collaboratively and liaise regularly with relevant Government of Alberta (GoA) Ministries and other stakeholders as needed to ensure Ministry, Cross-Ministry, GoA, and FPT planning/reporting/policy/special-project requirements are met in a timely and effective manner.
• Maintain awareness of government direction and anticipate how changes will impact stakeholders and relevant regulations and legislation.
• Work directly with other RTCGLCP staff to ensure that iGaming policy considerations are embedded within the strategic plan, and performance measure development.
• Perform other duties, as assigned.
  
  

In this position, you will utilize your skills of attention to detail, creativity, originality and innovation, independent research, writing, and review. You will be required to define issues and develop creative, appropriate strategic policy solutions. Strong analytical skills, the ability to work with complex policy, and attention to detail and accuracy are essential to succeed in this role.

Projects involved are usually diverse and deal with strategically sensitive and complex issues. Issues involved are often unique in nature, with limited precedent to be found within the ministry or government.

You will be required to work collaboratively and develop good working relationships with staff at all levels, both internal and external to the ministry, developing a meaningful network that enables them to meet deadlines, goals, facilitate collaborative processes and ultimately to do their job efficiently and effectively. Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders plays a key role in achieving success.

To be successful in this role, you will be required to prioritize work on multiple projects with multiple deadlines, to multi-task and use strong organizational skills to meet changing priorities and timelines; and to facilitate, collaborate, and mediate among various groups with competing priorities to draft common briefing materials and reach consensus.

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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: The work done within the APS is part of a larger integrated and inter-related environment.  The Manager, Policy and Engagement’s work affects the entire department as well as a large clientele including key agencies, external stakeholder and partners as well as government revenue and the social and economic frameworks throughout the province of Alberta.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes through demonstrated leadership skills to plan, lead and facilitate cross-divisional and cross-ministry teams.  This will require effective and well-developed skills with people, judgement, problem-solving, organization, team building and personal accountability.
• Develop Networks: Proactively building networks, connecting, and building trust in relationships with different stakeholders is vital. The Manager, Policy and Engagement will identify internal and external clients, partners and stakeholders and establish and maintain positive, effective working relationships through engagement, written communication and collaborating to gain a better understanding of their priorities and advance the departments interests.
• Creative Problem-Solving:  The ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions is key. The Manager, Policy and Engagement will be required to demonstrate a high level of analytical and problem-solving and creative thinking will be critical when performing policy analysis and navigating and managing complex issues.
• Agility: Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.  As a new initiative, many policies have minimal written comparator polices and established practices, requiring creative thinking and to demonstrate analytical thinking and problem solving to achieve positive outcomes. 

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

•  A Bachelor’s Degree in public administration, public policy, political science, business, or another related field
• Supplemented by four years of progressively related experience in policy analysis and development
• Equivalencies will be considered on a one-for-one basis (one year of related experience for one year of related education).
  
  

Experience or knowledge that will be considered and asset:

• Significant understanding of government or public sector policy development and decision-making processes.
• Knowledge of government or public sector business planning, reporting and decision-making processes and structures.
• Knowledge of the land-based and online gaming industries and the implications of these.
• Computer proficiency utilizing Windows-based applications (such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of ARTS.

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: Full-Time, Permanent

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, and etcetera.

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.