Senior Credential Evaluator

Role Responsibilities

Ensuring qualified educators are certified to teach in Alberta—locally and globally!

The Senior Credential Evaluator completes the assessment of Canadian and international teacher credentials to support Alberta teacher certification. This role works collaboratively with licensing bodies, post secondary institutions, and education stakeholders to ensure assessment standards are accurate, current, and consistently applied.

Key Responsibilities

• Consults with professional licensing bodies, post secondary institutions, and stakeholders to support best practices in credential recognition
• Monitors national and international education systems and assesses impacts on Alberta teacher certification standards
• Leads and supports the development and application of provincial credential assessment standards and principles
• Interprets and applies Labour Mobility Agreements for Canadian certificated teacher applicants
• Provides technical advice to committees, institutions, and individuals on teacher certification matters
• Interprets and explains certification policies and documentation requirements to applicants and stakeholders
• Maintains working knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations, policies, and certification practices in Alberta, Canada, and internationally
• Conducts complex research based assessments of Canadian and foreign academic and professional credentials
• Verifies authenticity of documentation through direct contact with institutions and education authorities
• Determines eligibility for teaching authority, bridging requirements, language proficiency, and total years of education
• Communicates assessment decisions clearly and professionally and monitors applicant progress toward meeting Alberta standards
• Processes applications under international agreements and prepares special authorizations to teach
• Supports consistency, quality assurance, and training of new Credential Evaluators
• Participates in system testing (e.g., TWINS Teacher Registry) to support operational improvements

This role requires strong research, analytical, and written communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work collaboratively with a broad range of education partners.

Please click on the 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: This position is critical to teacher certification processes and supports certification process to the best of known and current legislated timelines and goals, while also anticipating and pivoting to alternate plans in response to an ever-changing environment.

• Creative Problem Solving: This position will be expected to solve problems through a thorough review of a wide variety of data sources, including offering options that evaluates the alternatives and considers the implications of proposed solutions.

• Drive for Results: This position will identify areas of improvement and suggest efficiencies and implement them as needed. It will also align the work of the unit to the department's business plan, mandate items and adhere to legislated timelines and requirements

• Systems Thinking: This position involves a consistent review and analysis of the effectiveness of both policy and communication as it pertains to the teacher certification. It is important to have a confident working knowledge of policy, legislation and their components.

• Build Collaborative Environments: This position works collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to inform and actively shares information across the department. This position creates opportunities for sharing and interacting with all stakeholders in an open, honest, and non-defensive way. The position also understands, considers, and respects the impacts that differences may have before taking action.

Qualifications

Education

University degree in a related field supplemented by two years progressively responsible experience. 

Other Requirements:

• A cover letter must be provided that clearly and concisely outlines how the candidate meets the requirements outlined in the job ad in paragraphs. The candidate’s resume and cover letter will be used to evaluate writing ability and could disqualify them from the competition. 

The position requires the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Minimum of two years full-time experience in evaluation of foreign educational credentials is desirable.
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work independently in a continuously changing environment and within a team
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders, partners and clients
• A high degree of knowledge and confidence in using technology (i.e., TWINS, MS Suite, Adobe, ARTS)
• Ability to read French is desirable

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

There is one permanent full-time position working for 36.25 hours per week located in Edmonton.

Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.

Please attach a cover letter to your application clearly explaining your suitability for the role. Applications without a cover letter may not be reviewed.

In your resume, please include tenure of each employment (in months and years) associated with all education and work experience. Also, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part time or full time.

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.