JOB INFORMATION

Job Requisition ID: 73892
Ministry: Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full-time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Temporary
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: August 1, 2025
Classification: M41Z2 - Manager Zone 2
Salary: $3339.00 to $4493.32 bi-weekly ($87,147.90 - $117,275.65/year)
Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction (SARTR) is the government’s solution provider and supports the significant events in Albertans’ lives, like having a child, getting married, mourning the loss of a loved one, getting a driver’s license, or buying a home.
Our ministry is responsible for protecting consumers in an increasingly complex economic environment; overseeing registry activities, like vehicle, business and land registrations; and cutting red tape by one-third to reduce costs, speed up approvals, and make life easier for hard-working Albertans and businesses.
The iGaming team supports the Red Tape Reduction, Audit and Investigations (RTRAI) Division in Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction through the design and development of legislative and strategic policy frameworks supporting Alberta’s online gambling model. The team ensures legislation and policy align with ministry and government priorities. This policy development work impacts multiple ministries, stakeholders and Albertans, with broad social and economic outcomes.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors Degree (4 year program) in a relevant field including Law, Business, Economics, Public Administration or a similiar area of specialization
• PLUS four years of related experience

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Does an opportunity to showcase your leadership skills in compliance, innovation, and public trust that will help shape the future of responsible online gambling in the province of Alberta inspire and excite you? Is policy development your passion? If so, this is your opportunity to be an essential part of a transformative initiative leading the development of Alberta’s regulated iGaming framework and ensuring fairness, integrity, and social responsibility in a growing digital space.
Reporting to the Director, iGaming Policy, you will perform a crucial role in the development of Alberta’s online gambling (iGaming) strategy. You will have a unique opportunity for a wide reaching policy analysis to support a high profile project, showcase complex project management and stakeholder engagement skills and create lasting impacts on the iGaming sector in Alberta.
In the role, you will be providing recommendations and advice, identifying risks and migrating solutions along with developing required materials to be used to facilitate the policy decision making process of executive leadership so they can make evidence based decisions.
As the Manager, Policy and Engagement, you will play an integral role in stakeholder engagement, building strong working relationships and ensuring regular and effective communication with several diverse internal and external stakeholders. You will be responsible for coordinating and developing materials to support engagement with iGaming and land based industry, First Nations, and charitable organizations while also working closely with a variety of government departments.

ROLE CONT’D

Other responsibilities include:

• Provide expert advice to senior and executive leadership, including the Deputy Minister and Minister on matters related to the development and implementation of Alberta’s iGaming Strategy and other related policy matters
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement, building relationships, supporting collaboration and liasing regularly with relevant GoA ministries, agencies and external stakeholders
• Align policy development with government priorities, identifying and migrating risks and anticipating and communicating impact of proposed changes on stakeholders and government revenue
• Provide policy support across the branch to ensure alignment between multiple streams of work and bridge any gaps

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong computer proficiency utilizing Windows-based applications such as word, excel, outlook, sharepoint and powerpoint

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