Role Responsibilities Reporting to the Executive Director, you will provide strategic leadership for ministry-wide reviews, executive issue management, environmental scanning, and organizational improvement initiatives.

You will guide the identification and assessment of emerging risks, opportunities, and cross-ministry issues, while establishing governance processes, performance expectations, and quality standards that support effective decision-making and continuous improvement.

This opportunity is ideal for a strategic thinker and people leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, excels at navigating complexity, and is passionate about driving organizational excellence through evidence-based analysis and collaboration.

This role offers the prospect to shape enterprise approaches to policy alignment and system integration, while supporting high-stakes decision-making at the Executive and Cabinet level.

The job responsibilities include: Plans strategic priorities, methodologies, and quality standards for system reviews, and strategic analysis activities.

Serve as the liaison for forward planning activities, leading integrated project planning processes, coordinating dependencies, and maintaining enterprise schedules to ensure initiatives are aligned, prioritized and delivered effectively.

Directs the identification, assessment, and analysis of emerging issues affecting ministry and government priorities.

Provides recommendations regarding strategic priorities, policy options, operational approaches, and implementation considerations for senior leadership consideration.

Partner with Technology and Innovation and business partners to manage project interdependencies, coordinate planning activities and maintain integrated project schedules.





Establishes quality assurance standards for briefing materials, issue analyses, executive recommendations, and decision-support products.

Directs environmental scanning, jurisdictional analysis, and strategic assessments to identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends affecting ministry objectives.

Direct the Ministry System Review Function Establishes governance, intake, prioritization, escalation, and accountability processes for ministry-wide system review activities.

Determines priorities, resource allocation strategies, and work plans required to achieve branch and ministry objectives.

Oversees development of system review methodologies, program measures, and performance indicators.

Ensures system review activities align with government priorities, ministry strategic objectives, and executive direction.

Provides leadership on implementation of recommendations arising from ministry reviews and executive decisions.

Directs cross-functional teams responsible for system review initiatives and organizational improvement activities.

Strategic Executive Integration and Issues Management Maintains standardized templates, guidance, and briefing materials to support consistent output quality without direct oversight Ensure the Executive Director remains equipped with timely, relevant, and strategic information for decision-making.

Coordinate information flow on behalf of the Executive Director, ensuring alignment of messaging and actions across branches and resolving information gaps or inconsistencies.

Represent the Executive Director in meetings, working groups, or project discussions as assigned, ensuring commitments are tracked, followed up, and communicated appropriately.

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📌 Manager, System Review (Edmonton)
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Edmonton