Job Information
Job Requisition ID: 85576
Ministry: Education and Childcare
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: July 20, 2026
Classification: Manager Zone 2
Salary: $3,920.66 to 5,276.07 bi-weekly ($102,329 - $137,705/ year)
Ministry of Education and Child Care
Alberta Education and Childcare supports students, parents, teachers and administrators from Early Childhood Services (ECS) through Grade 12. What we have heard from Albertans will help us as we move forward in developing our future direction—to ensure students can meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities of the 21st century.
The Childcare Transformation & Strategy (CCTS) Branch leads the planning, development, and management of Alberta’s childcare transformation, including the implementation of the $3.8 billion Canada–Alberta Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CACWELCC) Agreement. The Branch advances the Ministry’s goal of building an affordable, accessible, high-quality childcare system for Alberta’s children and families.
Reporting to the Director, Transformation, this position leads policy development and implementation to support Alberta’s childcare transformation under the $3.8B Canada–Alberta Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. It provides strategic advice to senior leadership, oversees multiple policy initiatives and manages issues related to system transformation.
The role supervises a team of policy analysts responsible for strategic analysis, decision briefings and research. It plays a key role in designing funding models, advancing early learning and childcare policy and supporting system-wide initiatives that impact parents and childcare providers. The manager fosters a collaborative, integrated approach across the department, ensuring alignment between strategy, policy, IT and service delivery. This includes driving work forward through a project management approach, ensuring complex projects are coordinated and effectively managed.
The role works across teams and divisions to support integrated strategies, policies and programs that advance Alberta’s childcare transformation.
Responsibilities Include:
Child Care Transformation Policy and Implementation
- Lead development of the provincial childcare funding model through research, analysis and evidence-informed policy design.
- Prepare reports, frameworks, decision documents, presentations, communications materials and briefing notes.
- Develop clear, evidence-based policy options, including jurisdictional scans, outlining key considerations, risks and implications for decision-makers.
- Support development of project and implementation plans, identifying timelines, milestones and required shifts across teams.
Strategic Issues Management
- Identify and analyze emerging policy issues related to childcare transformation and develop strategies and options for senior leadership.
- Ensure policy proposals align with provincial outcomes, government direction and federal agreement requirements.
- Identify risks and dependencies across the broader transformation initiative and collaborate with partners to develop mitigation strategies.
Strategic Integration Across Projects
- Support alignment of strategy, policy, programs and delivery across teams involved in childcare transformation.
- Lead cross-divisional working groups to support development and evolution of childcare funding models.
- Provide input into bilateral negotiations with the federal government, stakeholder engagement activities and projects led by delivery and policy teams across divisions.
Project & Contract Management
- Apply a project management approach to ensure complex initiatives have clear deliverables, timelines, accountabilities and critical paths.
- Lead contract management activities (when applicable), including oversight of deliverables, timelines and quality assurance, providing direction and feedback to contractors to ensure outputs meet project needs and align with schedules.
Leadership & Support to the Director
- Act for the Director as required and support achievement of branch and ministry goals.
- Coach and mentor policy analysts, fostering strong analytical skills, collaboration and continuous learning.
- Lead performance management processes, ensuring goals, development needs and achievements are clearly defined and supported.
- Manage employee relations issues with professionalism, diplomacy and adherence to HR policies and the Collective Agreement.
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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:
Drive for Results: Works to remove barriers to outcomes, sticking to principles:
- Forecast and proactively addresses project challenges.
- Removes barriers to collaboration and achievement of outcomes.
- Upholds principles and confronts problems directly.
- Considers complex factors and aligns solutions with broader organization mission.
Systems Thinking: Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them:
- Takes holistic long-term view of challenges and opportunities.
- Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives.
- Works towards actions and plans aligned with APS values.
- Works with others to identify areas for collaboration.
Build Collaborative Environments Collaborate across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict:
- Encourages broad thinking in projects and works to eliminate barriers to progress.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration.
- Anticipates and reduces conflict at the outset.
- Credits others and gets talent recognized.
- Promotes collaboration and commitment.
Agility: Identifies and manages required change and the associated risks:
- Identifies alternative approaches and supports others to do the same.
- Proactively explains impact of changes.
- Anticipates and mitigates emotions of others.
- Anticipates obstacles and stays focused on goals.
- Makes decisions and takes action in uncertain situations and creates a backup plan.
Develop Self and Others Plans according to career goals and regular development:
- Aligns personal goals with career goals.
- Leverages strengths: attempts stretch goals.
- Provides feedback and openly discusses team performance.
- Values team diversity and supports personal development.
University graduation in Arts, Social Sciences, Business, Public Administration or other related field plus 4 years progressively responsible related experience. Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis. A Master's degree in a related field is considered an asset.
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Knowledge Required:
- Knowledge of Ministry, divisional and government strategic business plans.
- Knowledge of government related policies, processes and legislation.
- Knowledge of policy development cycle, including implementation within the provincial government context.
- Knowledge and understanding of business planning, accountability processes and performance management are an asset.
- Knowledge of governance and project management methodologies, tools and practices.
- Understanding of the principles and practices of public administration and of the operations of the Alberta government with respect to decision-making, legislative planning, financing, contracting processes and practices, human resources, etc.
Skills Required for this Role:
- High-level systems and strategic thinking with the ability to influence senior leaders.
- Strong interpersonal skills and effectiveness in shared governance environments.
- Proven project management skills and ability to manage shifting, competing priorities.
- Advanced analytical, problem-solving,and information-synthesis abilities to support policy development.
- Demonstrated change-management capability with positive results across stakeholder groups.
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with staff, peers, partners and stakeholders.
- Experience overseeing implementation, monitoring progress and reporting on complex initiatives.
- Success working on high-profile, complex policy files requiring sound judgment.
- Ability to balance multiple needs and drive results in a dynamic environment.
Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.
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We are recruiting one permanent full-time position working 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Work location is 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 have to offer to prospective employees.
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- Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool –
- Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
- 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.
In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. For example, January 2006 - June 2009 (part-time). This example is provided for illustrative purposes only. Applicants are encouraged to present their information clearly and thoroughly, using a format that best conveys their experience.
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 Liliane Karara at [email protected].
