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.
Systems Thinking: Considers inter-relationships and emerging trends to attain goals, seeks insight on implications of different options, analyzes long-term outcomes, focus on goals and values, and identifies unintended consequences.
Creative Problem Solving: Engages with stakeholders and uses resources at hand to address issues and to seek root causes, finds ways to improve complex systems. Employs resources from other areas to solve problems, engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.
Drive for Results: Works to exceed goals and partners with others to achieve objectives. Plans based on experience, holds self and others responsible for results, partners with groups to achieve outcomes and aims to exceed expectations.
Develop Networks: Leverages relationships to build input and perspective, looks broadly to engage stakeholders, open to perspective towards long-term goals, actively seeks input into change initiatives and maintains stakeholder relationships.
Build Collaborative Environments: Works in an open honest manner with colleagues, creates sharing opportunities, actively shares, accepts, and listens to others, recognizes conflict, respects, and discusses opinions openly, supports group even to learn from mistakes and recognizes differing interpretations.
