Strategic Integration Analyst

Role Responsibilities

Are you a leader that promotes collaboration, engagement and process improvement in a team environment? A creative problem solver? A systems thinker? If so, we would like to hear from you.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Service Delivery and Communications, the Strategic Integration Analyst has a division-wide focus requiring awareness of organizational objectives and priorities to ensure issues are addressed in a strategic, integrated, and consistent manner. 

The position reflects the highest level of operational thinking with respect to tax legislation, policy, and practices. Working within multiple tax statutes and programs, the position must identify, analyze, evaluate, and formulate solutions for complex system and procedural problems that involve competing priorities and timelines.

The Strategic Integration Analyst ensures the appropriate level of organizational change management is planned, communicated, and executed for a wide range of complex organizational initiatives including strategic planning, project implementation, and operational improvements.

In this role, the Strategic Integration Analyst will:

• Promote intra-divisional collaboration; identify, influence and support opportunities for streamlining and standardizing processes across the division. Encourage sharing of information to promote consistency and reduce duplication of effort.
• Lead stakeholder engagements that are complex, integrated and involve multiple stakeholders and coordinate activities in accordance with the overarching strategic engagement and operational plans.
• Responsible for employing change management methodologies to maximize stakeholder adoption and minimize resistance.
• Provide expertise for the development and maintenance of integrated systems; promoting inter-branch cooperation to help ensure TRA's readiness and adaptability in respect of future challenges and opportunities.
• Work independently to determine solutions using research and well-established networks.

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: The work done within the APS is part of a larger integrated and inter-related environment. It is important to know that work done in one part of the APS impacts a variety of other groups/projects inside and outside the APS. Systems Thinking allows us to keep broader impacts and connections in mind.
• Creative problem solving: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.
• Agility: Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.
• Drive for Results: Sets and accomplishes goals and priorities to deliver outcomes consistent with government direction, departmental objectives and public expectation.

Build Collaborative Environments: leads sharing of expertise to achieve broader outcomes within the organization. Initiates strategic communication systems, linking up and down throughout the organization and with external stakeholders.
 

Qualifications

A university degree in Business or a related field plus 4 years of progressively responsible experience.

Equivalencies may be considered based on a one year experience for one year of education or one year of education for one year of experience. 

Assets:

• Expert knowledge of tax and revenue programs administered by TRA and ability to apply and interpret their related complex legislation, regulations, and policies.
• Ability to lead and coordinate the work of multi-disciplinary project teams involving professional staff and other government departments to develop and implement strategic approaches.
• Experience in gathering user requirements, preparing business analysis documents and working with technical resources.
• Exceptional communication skills and developing collaborative working relationships.
• Strong project management experience (including understanding of the tools and phases of the project life cycle) to guide consultation activities and support complex tax assignment and time frames.
• Experience applying change management principles, processes and tools in an organization.

A cover letter is required. The cover letter should outline how your experience relates to the qualifications of this role.

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

1 full time permanent position located in Edmonton.

Hours of work: 7.25 hours per day / 36.25 hours per week (Monday – Friday).

Candidates selected for interview may be asked to complete a written exercise as part of the assessment process.

Final candidates will be required to undergo a 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 has 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
• 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.