Manager, Legislative Services

Job Information
Job Title: Manager, Legislative Services
Job Requisition ID: 59222
Ministry: Jobs, Economy and Trade
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open competition
Closing Date: June 13, 2024
Classification: Manager Zone 2
Salary: ​$3,147.32 to $4,235.37 bi-weekly ($82,145 - $110,543/year)

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Role Responsibilities

The JET Legislative Services team provides legislative services to both Jobs, Economy and Trade (JET) and Immigration and Innovation (IM). The Manager, Legislative Services in JET is responsible for providing legislative planning, development and project management services to the Minister and Ministry of JET and IM. The Manager, Legislative Services provides legislative services to labour, workplace, jobs, immigration, multiculturalism, economy and trade files. The Manager ensures the delivery of high-quality legislative services within government policies and procedures, decision making and legislative processes, and provincial legislative drafting standards and practices, in line with the department's strategic priorities and goals. Legislative development activities may include oversight, design, development, advice, research, analysis, identifying issues and solutions, developing legislative documents, and the overall management of legislative development projects and processes. The role has a strong focus on legislative and legal instrument development, project management, process development, supporting the development of the department's policy and legislative analysis, and leading staff in a fast paced and complex environment. Responsibilities Include:

• Manage the JET and IM's legislative planning, review and development processes.
• Provide strategic advice regarding legislative and related matters.
• Assist in the implementation of strategies to enhance capacity for legislative excellence within JET and IM.
• Assess and coordinate Ministry legislation to review and mitigate risk.
• Guide and foster the coordination of legislation across the Ministry in alignment with Ministry and GOA goals, priorities and mandates.
• Coordinate or draft responses for requests related to other ministries' legislative planning initiatives, ensuring that the Ministry's position is clearly stated, and its interests clearly reflected.
• Liaise with other ministries and governments to represent the Ministry’s position on emerging legislative issues or initiatives.
• Coordinate response and provide legislative support for any private bills affecting the Ministry, ensuring that the Ministry's position is clearly stated, and its interests clearly presented to Parliamentary Counsel.
• Coordinate the process for the designation of entities as public bodies under the Lobbyists Act, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP Act).
• Lead and manage the Legislative Analyst positions.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Education, Public Policy, Public Administration, Social Science, Law or in a field related to the position assignment, supplemented by four (4) years related experience. Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis. The position requires the following experience and technical competencies:

• Thorough knowledge of and experience with GOA's legislative process.
• Experience with legislative and regulatory planning, development and drafting.
• Strategic thinking and planning skills, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong leadership skills for the development of consensual resolutions and legislative project management.
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills.
  

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 

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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: Critical Competencies:

• Agility – Proactively incorporates change into processes.
• Drive for Results – Works to remove barriers to outcomes, sticking to principles.
• Build Collaborative Environments – Recognizes and balances the competing interests of multiple clients, stakeholder groups and partners in order to resolve issues that may be local in nature or may exist province wide.
• Develop Networks – Makes working with a wide range of parties an imperative.  
• Systems Thinking – Integrates broader context into planning.
• Creative Problem Solving - Works in open teams to share ideas and process issues.
• Develop Self and others - Shares learning experiences with others and works with team to create a plan on how learning can be applied more broadly within the group.

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.

Notes

This is a full-time permanent position working 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Work location - Commerce Place Building, Edmonton. 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 - working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - .
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information -
• Professional learning and development -
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool –
• 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.

How To Apply
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. Candidates are required to apply for a job online. Please visit for more information. Please visit Recruitment Principles, for more information. It is recommended applicants who have completed post-secondary studies from outside of Canada obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS)( or from a recognized Canadian Credential Evaluator; please visit the Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada for more information (It is recommended that applicants include the assessment certificate from IQAS or any other educational assessment service as part of their application. 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 require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Jothinataraj at [email protected] .