Job Information

Job Requisition ID: 35728

Ministry: Children's Services

Location: Edmonton

Full or Part-Time: 1 Permanent position

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Regular/Temporary: Ongoing

Scope: Open Competition

Closing Date: December 16,2022

Classification: Subsidiary 06B 3625 Human Services Worker 7

About Us

The Government of Alberta is committed to a diverse and inclusive public service that reflects the population we serve to best meet the needs of Albertans. Consider joining a team where diversity, inclusion and innovation are valued and supported.

Children’s Services focuses on early intervention, child development and delivering supports and services to children, youth, and families. It works to ensure that children in Alberta have the tools they need to thrive in healthy families and communities. The ministry engages with Indigenous leaders and communities, the Government of Canada, other Government of Alberta ministries, community agencies and other stakeholders.

The Department of Children’s Services leads childcare & intervention, early childhood development, foster & kinship care, adoption, and improvements for children & youth.

Role

The Contract Specialist plays an integral role in program planning, consultation, contract negotiation, monitoring and evaluation. The role ensures that contracted resources provide quality services to children and families. This position is greatly involved in strategic initiatives, capacity building and best practices for contracting and procurement approaches.


As a Contract Specialist, you will negotiate, review and monitor contracts and grants to ensure the quality and quantity of services provided. You will also be required to play a key role in the contract planning and procurement processes. This position works as part of a high performing team of professionals focused on ensuring positive outcomes for children and families.

The ideal candidate will possess the following skills:

• Systems Thinking: Taking a broad scale, long-term view, assessing options and implications; understands the strategic direction of the organization.
• Creative Problem Solving: Informed decision-making; ability to assess options and implications to identify a solution and work towards resolution when necessary.
• Drive for Results: Know what outcomes are important; Accomplish tasks effectively and efficiently and independently
• Building Collaborative Relationships: Understanding, meeting or exceeding stakeholder needs. Work collaboratively with stakeholders (community services providers and CS staff) to provide clients with exceptional service delivery.

Qualifications

Experience/Skills:

• Preferred minimum of 2 years of related experience in:
• contract management,
• contract planning,
• procurement
• financial acumen
• knowledge of practice related to providing trauma-based services and supports to children and families
• awareness of relevant legislation applying to Children’s Services familiarity working with Microsoft Office is required (Outlook, Excel, Adobe)
• experience working with various stakeholders, and building effective relationships is essential
• an understanding of Indigenous world views and the impact of colonization on the children and families we serve.

The following equivalencies may be considered; Master of Social Work and 1-year related experience; a related university degree with four years of related experience; or a related diploma plus five years of related experience; or a related certificate and 6 years of related experience.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviours 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. The link below will assist you with understanding competencies:

Salary

$2,907.15 to $3,764.70 bi-weekly: ($75,876 to $98,258/ yearly)

Notes

Hours of work are Monday to Friday - 36.25 hours per week.

For more information on the Government of Alberta hiring process, view this link:

How To Apply

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Existing employees should access the Career tile in 1GX to submit their application in order to be recognized as an internal applicant.


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Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience and relevant examples of required competencies.


Resources for applicants:


It is recommended that applicants who have obtained educational credentials from outside of Canada and have not had them previously assessed, obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS)

Closing Statement

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

If you require any further information on this job posting or a copy of the role profile, and/or require a disability related accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Dawn Bradbury at dawn.bradbury@gov.ab.ca

If this competition closes as per the date noted above, please continue to check