Manager, Benefits Administration - Edmonton, Canada - Government of Alberta

Government of Alberta

Verified Company

Edmonton, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Job Information
Job Requisition ID: 56301

Ministry:
Public Service Commission

Location:
Edmonton and Calgary

Full or Part-Time:
Full Time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Permanent/Temporary:
Permanent

Scope:
Open Competition

Closing Date:
April 22, 2024

Classification:
Manager Zone 2

Salary:
$3,147.32 to $4,235.37 bi-weekly ($82,145 to $110,543/year)

Role Responsibilities:

Group benefit plans and pensions are highly valued by employees and our team plays a stewardship role.

We work to ensure they are attractive, meet employee needs, are financially sustainable and position the Government of Alberta as an employer of choice.

Are you a human relations professional who sees how their role supports the organization achieve its broader goals?

Are you a people leader who enjoys mentoring and coaching a team to be effective and engaged?

Do you thrive on tackling new challenges?

Do you get excited dealing with variety and knowing that no two days are the same?

If so, this sounds like the opportunity for you.

Reporting to the Director, Benefits and Pension Policy, primary accountability for the Manager, Benefits Administration, is to oversee a team of professional staff, leading the efficient and solutions-focused administration of pension and employee group benefit plans.

The manager is accountable for program/administration gaps and opportunities, assessing challenges and trends, managing the development of proactive and innovative solutions to complex benefits and pension matters and leading specific priority initiatives through effective leadership and project management.

The Manager ensures strategic advice is delivered consistently, efficiently, and effectively to leadership on complex and sensitive benefits and pension issues.

This includes expert-level interpretation and advice on applicable legislation, regulations, policies, directives and guidelines, including implementation of new programs, policies and guidelines related to benefits and pension.

Responsibilities:

Provide effective leadership and engagement, including daytoday direction, to benefits and pension administration staff.
Lead benefit and pension policy operationalization ensuring consistent interpretation of prescribed policies, procedures and guidelines in consultation with Human Resource business partners and line department managers.
Lead issues management to ensure daytoday issues (including employee exception requests or cases) are resolved according to prescribed policies and administrative guidelines.
Lead strategic communications and the development of effective and plain language communication tools to ensure benefit plans and pensions are easy to understand and meet the needs of a wide variety of audiences.
Lead the administration of the Life Insurance plans.
Lead pension administration, compliance, and senior executive pension reporting.

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.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

Systems Thinking:

Incumbent requires systems thinking to design and develop processes and systems which address the short-term and long-term needs of the GoA as an employer and create innovative and sustainable solutions that also support the broader talent management framework.

At the same time, the position must balance a variety of needs (department specific versus enterprise-wide), assessing implications such as ensuring costs are reasonable and sustainable in the long-term, and consulting and partnering with the Union to achieve success in joint employer-union committees.

Creative Problem Solving:

It is critical that the incumbent provide innovative solutions and advice as well as lead and support projects related to the development and maintenance of policy within the APS while keeping informed of best practices and challenging existing processes and procedures for improvement and enhancement.

Drive for Results:
Incumbent must take accountability for outcomes and determine the most effective way to achieve desired results.

Agility:

Incumbent must take a proactive leadership role to anticipate, assess and readily adapt to changing priorities as well as be able to operate in a dynamic environment.

The incumbent must also be able to research and develop recommendations on policies, strategies and frameworks taking advantage of opportunities to readily adapt to changes required for organization success.

Build Collaborative Environments:
Incumbent must be a strong communicator and set up processes or structures to facilitate meaningful communication. The incumbent will also lead and/or support training initiatives and encourage exchange of information and ideas.

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