Director, Privacy Policy and Services

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, this position is accountable for the delivery of high quality privacy services to government departments (with the exception of Health and Mental Health and Addictions), including managing complex, highly sensitive issues, as well as delivery of comprehensive privacy policy and advice. This includes leading a team of professionals, liaising with key partners across the department, government and privacy sector, and providing exceptional training for Executive Management as well as staff across the Alberta Public Service. To be effective in this role, the position must have a strong knowledge of Alberta's privacy legislation, collaborate across the department and government to ensure effective delivery of services as well as compliance with legislation and policies. The position must have strong time-priority management and communication skills as the work often operates under tight timelines.

Responsibilities Include:

1. Leading the delivery of high quality enterprise privacy services for government ministries, with the exception of Health and Mental Health and Addictions.
2. Leading the development, enhancement and maintenance of Alberta privacy legislation and policy, including but not limited to legislation, policy, frameworks, standards, directives and guidelines.
3. Leading the Privacy Policy and Services unit, supervising and coaching staff, managing business administration, human and financial resources.

The position leads, coaches and develops staff, and manages issues and challenges related to service delivery and unit resource allocation.

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:

Systems Thinking: This positions requires strong understanding of privacy legislation as well as the broader policy and legislative system and government operations. It is essential to take a broad and long-term view of objectives and how to achieve them, anticipate outcomes and potential impacts, seek stakeholder perspectives and work with others to identify areas for collaboration.

Develop Self and Others: As a leader and manager, strong leadership and developing self and others is important to building and maintaining a high functioning team.

Agility: This position works in a fast paced, highly sensitive environment. The ability to proactively incorporate changes into processes, readily adapt, and remain objective under pressure and support others is critical.

Drive for Results: This position is critical to delivery the Government of Alberta’s privacy program. The ability to forecast, proactively address challenges, remove barriers to outcomes, and consider complex factors and align solutions with broader organization goals is essential.

Qualifications

Required:
University graduation in a field related to the position assignment (Public Policy, Public Administration, Political Science, and Law) PLUS seven years progressively responsible experience or equivalent as described. Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

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

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

The successful candidate MUST also have:

• In-depth knowledge of Alberta's privacy legislation, specifically the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and Personal Information Protection Act;
• Strong understanding of the linkages between policy, planning, regulatory decision-making, policy evaluation and report, political environment in which the Ministry operates, and government business plans, policy directions, legislation and structure;
• Experience with program or service delivery with a government setting;
• Expertise in policy development and department and government decision-making processes;
• Familiarity with department legislation, regulation and policies.

Assets:

• Strong organizational and time-priority management skills to effectively balance multiple priorities and demands;
• Excellent leadership and management abilities;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills - ability to present complex information in a clear and concise format;
• Ability to build strong working relationships.

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

Notes

Term of Employment: Permanent Full Time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Location: Commerce Place, Edmonton, Alberta

Candidates may be required to participate in a written assessment as part of the screening process.

Final candidate will be required to undergo security screening.

Cover Letter:
Candidates are required to include a cover letter that demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.

Resume:
For Employment Experience, please indicate duration of employment (month, year). Please specify employment status (i.e., Casual, part-time, or full-time) Ex: Youth Worker, Jan 2006 - June 2009, Part-time (three 8 hr. shifts/week)

For any Post-Secondary Education: Please specify your major and length of program and the year you graduated. Ex: Bachelor of Social Work, 4-year Degree (Graduated 2017).