- Student-centered post-secondary education system where all learners thrive.
- High-quality, relevant, accountable, and sustainable post-secondary education system.
- Post-secondary education system that advances excellence and equity in research and innovation.
- Manages and delivers required outcomes for one or more programs, offered directly by a department or indirectly through various organizations throughout the province, while reporting to senior colleagues.
- Administers Act(s) and/or its regulations in the province, and may perform and exercise any of the powers, privileges, duties, and functions of the Minister as specified in the legislation and the designation.
- Administer grants and assistance programs for strategic, research or innovation programs and projects.
- Identifies and designs evaluations and planning for future direction of programs and policies for post-secondary institutions. Activities include program(s) development, business analysis, providing advice and policy recommendations, and may include the resource and capacity management of direct and indirect program resources.
- Responsible for reviewing and evaluating proposals from post-secondary institutions that require government support and providing sound, evidence-based recommendations. This includes data analysis, use of statistical software where applicable and development of data visualizations, dashboards and prepares knowledge translation products to communicate findings with decision makers.
- Develops and/or delivers a plan for significant aspects of internal and external communications with guidance from senior colleagues. This includes ongoing monitoring and reporting of programs and providing processes and tools to provide the required information for inclusion in reports.
- Identifies shortcomings and policy incoherence and makes suggestions for improvements to existing processes, policies, systems and procedures,
- Contributes to the development of change management plans in collaboration with senior colleagues and project team.
- Allocates resources to appropriate places and develops strategies to ensure project management capacity meets the requirements.
- Delivers on the established outcomes by managing day-to-day relationships with partners, and team while working within an established contract management plan.
- Successfully developing and delivering strategies, plans and programs.
- Developing and delivering review and evaluation process from proposals to plans for a variety of audiences (large and small initiatives).
- Providing leadership, support, and facilitation for partnership engagements and program development and evaluation processes.
- Applying an equity, diversity and inclusion lens to your work, and encouraging colleagues to do the same.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Building strong and sustainable relationships.
- Listening to understanding different perspectives.
- Working with various audiences including, executives, managers, subject matter experts and service providers.
- Effectively managing multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Utilizing tools and methodologies required to successfully analyzing data, information and trends.
- Analyzing feedback, preparing reports and dashboards, and building action plans to support improvement.
- Proficient using Microsoft Office programs (Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, etc.), statistical analysis programs and data visualization programs.
- Knowledge of structure, processes, and key players in government;
- Familiarity with legislation which falls under the Advanced Education mandate;
- Experience leading/contributing to projects that have utilized a design thinking process (ideation, prototyping, testing, and scaling) and/or knowledge of principles of human centered/person centered design;
- Understanding of the provincial post-secondary education system including knowledge of the role of government and the post-secondary education system in public sector driven innovation globally, nationally and within Nova Scotia;
- Experience using root-cause analysis and/or similar techniques;
- Experience participating in developmental evaluations.
- Experience with Tableau and R.
- Normal work week is 35 hours/week, 7 hours/day.
- May be required to work overtime on occasion.
- Occasional travel may be required for this position.
- Career development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career
- Engaging workplace: our employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in, we have forward-thinking policies and strategies
- Countless career paths
- Department specific flexible working schedules
Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Program Lead - Halifax, Canada - Government of Nova Scotia
Description
Competition # : 42324
Department: Advanced Education
Location: HALIFAX
Type of Employment: Term
Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG
Closing Date: 29-Mar-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
About Us
The Department of Advanced Education (AE) works in collaboration with its partners to help ensure Nova Scotia has a:
AE is also committed to ensuring equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility are the foundation for Nova Scotia's post-secondary system and these lenses are applied into our policy, funding and strategic guidance for the system.
AE has approximately 70 employees and has oversight responsibility over the ten universities and the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) and regulates over 40 private career colleges and ten language schools. The Department is also responsible for administrating the Canada Student Loan Program and the Nova Scotia Student Assistance Program, which provide financial assistance to students to enable them to obtain a post-secondary education.
This position will support the Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Division in the Strategy, Policy and Partnerships Branch of the Department of Advanced Education. The Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Division oversees strategic direction for the post-secondary education system including strategy development, partnership engagement and funding for research and innovation.
If you want to join a dynamic organization, we have an exciting opportunity for you to explore as a Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation Program Lead (Program Administration Officer 4).
About Our Opportunity
We're looking for someone that thrives on shaping and delivering strategic and innovative solutions. Reporting to the Director, Strategy, Partnerships, and Innovation, you will work with the Manager of Research and Evidence as well as our partners: post-secondary institutions, government departments, agencies, boards and commissions, municipalities and crown corporations as well as key organizations in the health, education, research and innovation sectors.
As the Strategy, Partnership and Innovation Program Lead you be responsible for providing specialized program administration or management work for one or more strategic, research and innovation programs with impacts across the province. Responsibilities include overall administration and coordination of programs offered directly by a department or indirectly through various organizations throughout the province. You will be responsible for identifying and designing evaluations and planning for future direction of strategic, research and innovation programs and policies. You will also support the review and evaluation proposals requiring government support.
You will be responsible to track, measure, and report on status, risks, issues, and opportunities related to strategic, research and innovation programs (provide regular reports and updates weekly, monthly etc.). You will facilitate discussions with team members to develop strategies and action plans based on emerging opportunities and challenges.
Primary Accountabilities
Qualifications and Experience
The successful candidate will hold a bachelor's degree plus 6 years related experience; or master's degree plus 3 years related experience or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
In addition, you have experience with:
Assets Include:
We will assess the above qualifications and competencies using one or more of the following tools: written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.
Equivalency
Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application. Equivalences include a related 2-year Diploma and 8 years of experience.
Benefits
Based on the employment status and Union agreement, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as Health, Dental, Life Insurance, Pension, General Illness (Short and Long Term), Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. Click here to learn more about our various benefits offering and eligibility criteria.
Working Conditions
Additional Information
This is a Term employment opportunity with an anticipated end date of November 29, 2025. The appointment status ('term', 'temporary' or 'casual') is dependent on the start date of the successful candidate.
What We Offer
Pay Grade: PR 17
Salary Range: $3, $3,631.17 Bi-Weekly
Employment Equity Statement:
Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.
This is a bargaining unit position initially restricted to current civil service employees represented by the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU). If applying from outside a government office, employees must apply correctly via this link:
Failure to apply correctly means that your application will not be given first consideration as a bargaining unit applicant, and will only be included if external applications are pursued.
External applicants and current casual employees will only be considered if there are no qualified civil service bargaining unit candidates. PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.
Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to