Senior Engagement Consultant (Program Admin Officer 4) (Designated)
The Government of Nova Scotia
Location
Nova Scotia | Canada
Job description
Competition # : 42150
Department: Labour, Skills and Immigration
Location: Multiple Locations
Type of Employment: Permanent
Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG
Closing Date: 15-Mar-24 ( Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
Designation Status
This opportunity is designated to applicants that identify as Indigenous Person and/or African/Black Nova Scotian and other Racialized Persons.
See the Nova Scotia Government’s Employment Equity Policy for more information, including additional details on the designated groups.
About Us
The Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration works to provide fairness, safety and prosperity for all Nova Scotians by helping them live, learn and work to their highest potential. We have a staff of more than 500 employees working from offices throughout Nova Scotia. Together we are responsible for workplace safety, fire safety, pensions, apprenticeship, adult education, and many other facets of everyday life.
The Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency (NSAA) is responsible for stewarding and operating a relevant, accessible and responsive industry-led trades training and certification system and improving access to and participation in the system for Indigenous Peoples, African Nova Scotians, Person with Disabilities, Newcomers, Women and members of other equity-seeking groups.
About Our Opportunity
The Senior Engagement Consultant is accountable for one or more projects on a strategic level within the department and horizontal delivery between other government departments. The Senior Engagement Consultant is pivotal to the reengineering of the Nova Scotia Apprenticeship and Trades Qualifications System according to industry demand to ensure that the system is successful in developing an available, skilled and certified trades workforce for Nova Scotia and the region.
The Senior Engagement Consultant is part of a team responsible for engaging the skilled trades industry, employers and equity-deserving groups and communities from across the province to consult, receive input and feedback on relevant issues and topics to enhance the trades training and certification system in Nova Scotia. This work will involve defining and managing overall projects that impact multiple internal and external stakeholders. The Senior Engagement Consultant is responsible for consultation, promotion, budgeting, contract management, communications, and/or development of the overall project and project plans.
As the Consultant you will also be responsible for leading Industry Sector Committee and Trade Advisory Committee meetings and other Agency engagement activities as assigned.
Primary Accountabilities
Key responsibilities include:
- Leads and facilitates assigned Industry Sector and Trades Advisory Committee meetings that provide advice to the Apprenticeship Board.
- Engages with employers, contrac
tors and equity-deserving groups and communities across the province to ensure input and feedback into the system. - Manages and delivers required outcomes for one or more projects while reporting to senior colleagues. Provides direction and/or development of the project and project plans working within an established project management plan. Activities include project scope development, business requirements analysis, advising on procurement, methodology selection, project management strategies, and resource and capacity management of direct and indirect project resources.
- 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 projects and providing processes and tools to provide the required information for inclusion on reports.
- Identifies shortcomings and suggests improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, then delivers a plan for a small element of a change management program in collaboration with senior colleagues and project team.
- Takes responsibility for delivering a prescribed budget for the project and conducts complex analyses on budget progress while working within established procedures. Allocates resources to appropriate places and develops strategies to ensure project management capacity meets the requirements. Delivers prescribed outcomes for a designated area of financial control. Develops action plans to address budget and/or operational business/project plan deviations as they occur throughout the fiscal year.
- Delivers on the established outcomes by managing day-to-day relationships with clients, contract service providers, and project team while working within an established contract management plan.
- Delivers outcomes by mentoring, coaching, and monitoring the project team to facilitate project objectives and ensures appropriate project management methodologies and best practice are followed.
- May perform other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications and Experience
You must hold a bachelors degree with 6 years related experience, or an equivalent combination of training and experience or a Certificate of Qualification in a skilled trade with 6 years of related experience.
You have experience and specialized knowledge that is essential in labour market development and planning, including labour market information analysis, information development, education and training programs, supports and services, employee development, human resource planning, succession planning, recruitment/attraction and retention and workplace culture.
You have knowledge of federal, regional, provincial, and local labour market partners, business climate, labour/management relations, and relevant programs and services is required. You can provide insight on the challenges faced by subject matter experts and their employees while building partnerships is essential.
You have effective leadership skills, proficiency in project management, planning and implementation, partnership development skills, and expertise in consultative services and practices with clients and stakeholders.
You also demonstrate strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize information quickly in order to develop sound advice on a broad range of challenging issues. You provide innovative solutions to problems and have the capability to proactively seek opportunities to add value to your responsibilities. You have superior verbal and written communications skills, including strong presentation and public speaking skills when delivering presentations to employers, business organizations, communities, community groups and other partners and stakeholders both internally and externally.
Equivalency
Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.
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
- Normal work week is 35 hours/week, 7 hours/day
- May be required to work overtime on occasion
- Travel is a requirement of this position.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and daily use of a dependable, safe vehicle.
What We Offer
- 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
Pay Grade: PR 17
Salary Range: $3,091.70 - $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 [email protected].
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