Job Detail

Job Information

Job Requisition ID: 25672

Ministry: Jobs, Economy, and Innovation

Location: Edmonton/Calgary

Full or Part-Time: Full-time/Permanent

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Scope: Open Competition

Closing Date: August 10, 2022

Classification: Program Services 4

About Us

Jobs, Economy, and Innovation is responsible for leading efforts to grow Alberta’s economy by supporting Alberta’s entrepreneurs and job creators, attracting investment, growing trade, strengthening Alberta’s key sectors and ensuring Alberta has an innovative and competitive business environment.

Role

The Investment Service Advisor (ISA) is accountable for coordinating and supporting stakeholders in investment attraction and providing client service delivery excellence to key stakeholders: the Investment and Growth Community of Practice (CoP), and Team Alberta (TA). This position is key to providing a one-window point of contact for the GOA in support of Jobs, Economy and Innovation (JEI), other ministries, Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC), municipalities and other facilitators of investment, such as the Government of Canada, and Invest in Canada, in order to coordinate Investment Service Delivery, policies and cooperation mechanisms.

This position works in close cooperation with a wide variety of internal and external clients and partners on a municipal, provincial, national and international level to coordinate the attraction of business, jobs and capital to the province. Stakeholders, processes and models continue to evolve and the ISA will have to be flexible in this changing environment using their networks, skills, and knowledge and use them to deliver customized for information needed to secure investment. The role will establish, maintain, influence, and coordinate where appropriate, resources within and external to the ministry to bring to bear specific expertise required to advance investment in Alberta.

Role Continued..

1. Develop, coordinate and maintain internal stakeholder investment ecosystem Coordination: Investment and Growth Community of Practice (CoP).

• Implement a GoA governance model to coordinate investment attraction activities across ministries and clearly define accountabilities for addressing barriers to investment and helping investors navigate government and regulatory processes.
• Actively encourage continued commitment through developing personal relationships, providing coordination tools such as a dedicated SharePoint site, coordinating regular meetings, providing value-added learning, and providing analysis as needed to upper management or elected officials.

2. Develop, coordinate and maintain external stakeholder investment ecosystem coordination - Team Alberta (TA)

• Implement a service delivery model that provides seamless end-to-end investment concierge service for investors across orders of government: federal, provincial, and municipal; and economic development or investment agencies.
• Provide secretariat support to TA, which includes proactive strategic planning, researching and recommending initiatives of interest to group, developing agendas with suggestions from TA, take minutes during meetings and distribute minutes after meetings.

3. Develop, coordinate and maintain a high standard of communication and reporting.

• Create, market and maintain SharePoint sites as required by the investment ecosystem, providing support for members as needed and showing initiative for constant improvement.
• Communicate regularly with internal and external investment ecosystem partners to ensure that members and executive leaders have information necessary for decision making, and ensuring that inquiries that come to the system have responses within the established time frame standard.

4. Continuously develop and maintain a high level of competency in the area of Investment attraction and industry competitiveness.

• Monitor industry trends; keep updated on industry decision makers, competitiveness, domestic and global investment trends, opportunities and barriers, policy issues, program development and regulatory challenges.
• Research and maintain knowledge on best practices utilized by competing jurisdictions to promote investment, and influence the creation of new strategies based on best practices that will support investment attraction to Alberta.

5. Support the Unit with issues management, using current policies, procedures and processes to resolve issues.

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with branch, division and department staff to ensure strong working relationships and to gather intelligence for issue resolution.
• Coordinate responses to requests for information including Action Request documents such as briefing notes, letters and emails, as well as additional ad hoc requests from department and Government colleagues and stakeholders.

Qualifications

University graduation in a related field plus 4 years progressively responsible related experience; or equivalent as described below;

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

APS Competencies

Essential Competencies for this role include:

Systems Thinking: Provides clarity. Considers and plans for how current policies, processes and methods might be affected in the short, medium, and long-term by broader trends.

Creative Problem Solving: Seeks clarity. Identifies several analytical techniques and sources of knowledge to break apart complex problems.

Agility: Anticipates changes. Maintains awareness of changing organizational priorities and proactively shifts strategic focus and activities as appropriate.

Drive for Results: Knowing what outcomes are important and maximizing resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organization, while maintaining accountability to each other and external stakeholders.

Develop Self and Others: A commitment to lifelong learning, and the desire to invest in the development of the long-term capability of yourself and others.

Build Collaborative Environments: Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.

Developing Networks: Identifies people that have significant potential for contribution, and finds ways to make personal connections.

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. The link below will assist you with understanding competencies:

Salary

$2,683.10 – 3,507.0 bi-weekly. ($70,028 - $91,534 / year)

Notes

• This position works normal GOA business hours - 36.25 hours per week
• This competition will be used to fill 2 positions, one temporary and one permanent
• Final candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment checks.

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service –
• Pension plans:
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) –
• Leadership and mentorship programs
• Professional learning and development
• Positive workplace culture and work-life Opportunity to participate in an interim hybrid work schedule (per Alberta Public Service policy) of up to two days working from home office and three days in the office.

How To Apply

If you are not currently an employee with the Government of Alberta, the first step in applying for a job is creating your candidate profile within our online application system,

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.

Resources for applicants:

It is recommended that applicants who have obtained educational credentials from outside of Canada and have not had them previously assessed, obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS)

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 Abhishek Apte at Abhishek.apte@gov.ab.ca.

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