Job Title: Corporate Practice Manager

Job Family: Manager

Department: Professional Practice

Reports To: Director, Qualified Practice

Division: Regulatory

Location: Edmonton

Competition: 26-36

Employment Indicator: Full-time, Permanent

Position Summary

The Corporate Practice Manager is a critical leadership position in the Professional Practice Department and within APEGA, responsible for providing direction and best practices to ensure APEGA permit holders and licensed professionals understand their professional and ethical obligations, have described appropriate control measures in their Professional Practice Management Plans to fulfill their obligations in the practice of engineering and/or geoscience and to comply with the Act, Regulations, Bylaws, practice Standards, Bulletins and Guidelines.
As a professional practice ambassador of APEGA, the incumbent is a senior professional and leader that provides appropriate direction, advice, and counsel to all stakeholders - the Public, Licensed Professionals, Permit Holders. Focused on ensuring that public interest is protected, and that APEGA earns and maintains the confidence of its membership and the public, the Corporate Practice Manager advises permit holders, registrants and APEGA Staff as well as provides opinions to Director, Professional Practice, in practice review and permit to practice matters.

Responsibilities

- Manage APEGA’s Graduated Practice Review program to ensure permit holder and their licensed professionals’ practice competently and ethically in accordance with the EGP Act, General Regulations, and APEGA Standards, bulletins, and Guidelines by:




• Lead the execution of the GRAPH process for permit holder practice reviews to achieve the annual goals set by Director, Skilled Practice
• Providing recommendations on the status of permit holders practice reviews, trends in professional practice and emerging issues to Director, Professional Practice to allow timely self-regulation decisions as per APEGA policy and processes.
• Develop, implement, and maintaining policies and processes for initiating, executing, and finalizing permit holders practice reviews (GRAPH Process)
• Developing and managing professional practice databases to provide timely reporting that will allow successful follow up action and assist performance measurement and KPI development.
• Development and maintain of tools, templates, and standardized letters to ensure consistent execution of, and communication regarding practice reviews and practice standards to facilitate continual improvement.
• Communicate with engineers and geoscientists of all levels under the Permit to Practice, from senior executives to engineers-in-training in a respectful and qualified manner.
• Identify trends in professional practice to provide input into standards development and interpretation.

Be the subject matter expert for APEGA on all practice review and permit to practice matters:

- Ensuring APEGA is a definitive source of advice, expertise,



and information as a Regulator regarding the professional and ethical aspects of the practice of engineering and geoscience
- Providing timely and well researched responses to any questions or inquiries from the Public, Permit Holders or Licensed Professionals on permit holder practice reviews and professional and practice standards, bulletins, and guidelines
- Hold professional workshops for permit holders and professionals regarding the established interpretation of the Act, Regulations, By-Laws, Standards, Bulletins and Guidelines
- Continuously engage permit holders, professionals and related associations while providing excellent customer service that reflects positively on APEGA. Raise the bar of the profession in Alberta to ensure self-regulation.
- Provide recommendation and updates to the Practice Review Board, its subcommittees, Council (and successors). Supporting actions:
- Attending PRB meetings to provide updates on, and insights into, permit holders’ and licensed professionals’ engineering or geoscience practice.
- Facilitate the Practice Review Sub Committee (or its successor) meetings and providing advice and guidance to the committee on practice reviews, GRAPH process and trends in professional practice
- Providing research and information to support goals and objectives of the PRB and its subcommittees
- Provide position papers and opinions on professional practice to the PRSC, PRB, as requested by Director, Professional Practice
- Providing direction on the development and reporting of key performance indicators related to professional practice and compliance with the profession
- Providing advice and acting as a knowledge resource

📌 26-36 Corporate Practice Manager (Canada)
🏢 APEGA
📍 Canada