Policy Analyst

Role Responsibilities

As a Policy Analyst, you bring your expertise and practical experience in the application of the policy cycle and experience working with legislative tools to your projects. You understand all stages of the policy cycle and have experience in most of the stages, including issue identification, research and analysis, stakeholder engagement, preparing materials for decision making, implementation, and evaluation, and you bring an awareness of how different policy levers can be used to achieve the Government of Alberta’s objectives. You have strong critical thinking skills and are ready to influence positive changes within the mental health and addiction services system of care.

Leveraging your relationship building competencies, you develop networks with key stakeholders and build collaborative environments. You ensure success in policy development and implementation by applying your strong communication skills to write clear and concise plans and summaries, briefing materials and correspondence, options and recommendations, and you bring consultation skills that will strengthen the team’s capacity to engage with key players, such as Recovery Alberta, Indigenous people and communities, community agencies and cross-ministry partners, in order to understand complex issues.

You are able to demonstrate your systems thinking and understand the complexity of the addiction and mental health service delivery field and come up with creative solutions that are grounded in your knowledge of the system. You are motivated to deliver results that address the issues at hand and use your agility to navigate an environment where priorities change rapidly with quick turnaround times and multiple competing demands. You have strong project management skills and leverage these skills to plan work, understand priorities, and achieve deliverables.

Qualifications

A minimum of graduation from a 4-year baccalaureate degree is required.

Minimum two (2) years of directly related experience is required in :

• Policy development related work, specifically in social science research, and developing options and scenarios for decision makers
• Project management and implementation (including but not limited to managing grants, academic projects etc.)

Preference will be given to candidates who have experience reviewing and critically analyzing legislation or legislative tools to support policy development.

The following experience is considered an asset :

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