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Job Requisition ID: 43796

Ministry: Children's Services

Location: Edmonton

Full or Part-Time: Full-time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Scope: Open

Closing Date: June 19, 2023

Classification: Manager Zone 2

About Us

A successful society is defined by its people and the opportunities available for them to participate in all aspects of life and provide for their families fully and actively. Children’s Services works to foster a society in which families are secure and resilient, individuals have safe, sustainable employment, vulnerable Albertans have the supports they require, and no one is left behind. You can be part of helping us make a difference!

To find out more about our work visit:

Role

Are you looking for a rewarding and challenging opportunity to use your strategic thinking and enhance your analytical skills? Do you have what it takes to join a group of professionals committed to making a real difference in the lives of children, youth and families?

We are looking for a collaborative, motivated and creative individual who can lead a team delivers high-quality information that will impact child care programs and services by providing support in managing data analytics, including data collection, data analysis and interpretation, data visualization, data modelling, forecasting and reporting writing.

Reporting to the Director, PIEPM, the Child Care Data Analysis and Reporting Manager is responsible for managing statistical analysis and reporting for wide-ranging audience target groups within Children's Services. This position is also expected to complete a combination of data and trend analysis, environmental scanning, foresight and other research activities working with a variety of internal and external partners. To support planning and policy development processes, the Manager leads the data analysis team in ensuring forward-looking research and trend analysis are conducted consistently and presented in insightful and easy-to-understand formats. This position will provide strategic direction, advice and specialized support related to the annual research/data plan, data analyses, strategic intelligence reports, visual representations and other information products as determined.

The Manager works within a team environment to provide intelligence for strategic and business planning and evidence-based decision-making. This position ensures that sound research methods and approaches are used and ensures that stakeholder needs are identified and addressed. The Manager promotes the use of quality assurance and continuous improvement best-practices and encourages proactive sharing of results and analytical information.

This position manages two data analysts and two senior data analysts and will lead the ministry through the transition from legacy reporting systems to new technology. The manager will do this through their strong strategical thinking skills and ability to anticipate stakeholder needs and innovate future reporting.

Responsibilities include:

• Data Management
• Reporting Management
• Knowledge Management
• Direction and Supervision

Qualifications

University graduation in a related field (such as, but not limited to Social Sciences, Business, Public Administration, Economics or Statistics) combined with a minimum of six years’ progressively related experience is required. Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

• Experience must include demonstrated experience leading and managing data analytics, including data collection, data analysis and interpretation, data visualization, data modelling and reporting writing.
• Experience in Microsoft Excel, PowerBI and SQL are required
• Experience with ARC GIS, Power Query and Microsoft SRS Report Builder are assets
  

Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

Preferences:

• Master’s degree
• Demonstrated experience in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, statistical analysis methods, statistical modelling, forecasting and socio-economic research.
• Background and training in data science
  

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

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:

If you haven’t included competency information in the “Role” section, you can include the critical competencies with examples of how they relate to the role being recruited to in this section; below is a list of the APS Competencies to assist you:

• Agility - Must be able to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience, and work
• Drive for Results - Sets goals and prioritizes work to accomplish them. Follows through on duties and tasks and reports on progress.
• Develop Self and Others – Desire to invest in the development of the long-term capability of self and others
• Build Collaborative Environments - Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.
• Develop Networks – Proactively builds networks, connects and build trust in relationships with different stakeholders
• Systems Thinking – Understands how work contributes to the achievement of departmental effectively in changing environments goals. Anticipates changes in own area based on activities in other areas.
• Creative Problem Solving – Have the ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.
  

Salary

$3,062.51 to $4,121.25 bi-weekly: ($79,931 to $107,564/ year)

Notes

Hours of Work
36.25 hours per week (full time) Monday to Friday, 8:15am to 4:30pm

Location
Edmonton

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. As well, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).

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.

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• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) –
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) –
• Leadership and mentorship programs
• Professional learning and development
• 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 agreements

How To Apply

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Existing employees should access the Career tile in 1GX to submit their application in order to be recognized as an internal applicant.

Once you have created your candidate profile, visit the Alberta Public Service job site to apply for jobs at

Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience and relevant examples of required competencies.

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Closing Statement

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

If you require any further information on this job posting or a copy of the role profile, and/or require a disability related accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Dawn Bradbury at [email protected].

If this competition is closed as per the closing date noted above, please continue to check