JOB INFORMATION

Job Requisition ID: 69734
Ministry: Education
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: June 20, 2025
Classification: Program Services 4 Market Adjustment
Salary: $2757.39-$3604.17 bi-weekly ($71,967-$94,068/year)
Alberta Education, with technical input from Alberta Infrastructure, reviews submissions from school boards for new building and building renovation projects to determine priorities for capital funding decisions as part of the Alberta Government’s capital plan. In addition to developing the provincial school capital plan, Alberta Education develops policies and procedures for the effective planning of the school facilities capital program.
Capital Planning is an integral part of the Financial Services and Capital Planning Division, providing leadership to school boards, francophone authorities and Charter school societies to provide new facilities and upgrade supported capital infrastructure. Capital Planning representatives are required to liaise with school jurisdictions and other stakeholders to review, recommend and provide direction all aspects of capital planning.

QUALIFICATIONS

University graduation degree (preferably in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Infrastructure, etc.) in a related field plus at least two years’ experience working in an environment related to facility design and/or capital planning for public infrastructure, or equivalent as described below.
For application consideration, you must attach a cover letter explaining your qualification and suitability for this role.

RELATED EDUCATION OR EXPERIENCE CONSIDERED:

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

Reporting to the Stakeholder Manager, the Senior Analyst is the ministry lead for developing capital partnerships with school jurisdictions. In this capacity, the Senior Analyst is responsible for identifying millions of dollars worth of potential capital partnerships, developing capital funding agreements, and tracking progress of their inclusion in capital projects. Additionally, as the Education lead on disposition of property and real property governance, this position is responsible for identifying sites of potential educational interest throughout the province, conducting technical and feasibility analysis of these sites, and matching them with the capital needs of school jurisdictions. The position is required to make field-level decisions which have a direct impact on the investment of multi-million dollar capital budgets. This position requires excellent written and personal communication skills as the Senior Analyst will collaborate and liaise with a variety of stakeholders across the province.

The position is responsible for execution of the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Developing and formalizing standard operating procedures to manage the planning, execution, and monitoring of partnership agreements.
• Developing and implementing processes and procedures to evaluate potential properties for educational use, recommending sites for acquisition, identifying the school infrastructure needs of school jurisdictions, and making recommendations to senior leadership on real property opportunities.
• Monitoring disposition of property applications, evaluating all real property available to government for possible educational use, and tracking disposition of property deadlines and approvals.
• Working directly with school jurisdictions, ministry staff, cross-ministry partners, and external stakeholders.
• Collaborating with Capital Planning staff to establish schedules that incorporate critical events, the operational requirements of the ministry, cross-ministry partners, school jurisdictions, and external stakeholders, and legislated deadlines.
• Preparing comprehensive, accurate, and well-written action request responses, correspondence, reports, and financial analyses.
• Providing advice and recommendations relating to issues, opportunities, risks, and challenges relating to partnership agreements, disposition of property applications, site investigations, three-year capital plans, and capital project proposals.
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships within Capital Planning, Education, Infrastructure, school jurisdictions, municipalities, and other and internal and external stakeholders.
• Participating in committees as assigned.
• Representing the ministry on cross-government working groups, promoting the ministry’s interests, and sharing information.

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