Government of Alberta

Manager, Child Intervention

Government of Alberta

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Lethbridge • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$99,348 - CA$133,694 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Provide leadership, guidance, and support to a team of front-line staff.
  • Ensure services are aligned with regional strategies and business goals.
  • Reflect and uphold the vision of the region, department, and ministry while complying with legislation, regulations, provincial standards, regional policies, and fiscal targets.
  • Champion the implementation of programs and new initiatives that support the strategic direction of the ministry and region.
  • Drive the shift from child protection to healthy families by fostering positive communities and promoting collaborative partnerships to achieve better outcomes for children, youth, and families.
  • Apply a systems-thinking approach by considering trends across program environments and broader impacts to ensure culturally appropriate and safe services.
  • Utilize experience working with diverse communities to confidently employ a variety of diversity and inclusion strategies to initiate, support, and evaluate working relationships.
  • Demonstrate anti-oppressive practices when working with urban and rural Indigenous communities, integrating Indigenous ways of knowing with standard Western approaches.

Requirements

  • Preferred education is a Bachelor of Social Work with four (4) years of related experience including supervisory in a child protection environment.
  • The following equivalencies may be considered : Master of Social Work and three (3) years of experience; OR Related university degree with four (4) years of related experience; OR Related diploma plus six (6) years of related experience.
  • Preference will be given to those who have experience in : Child protection responsible for providing a full range of child protection duties delegated under a provincial or equivalent child welfare legislation.
  • Safety Phase and Intake Workflow.
  • Leading and managing a diverse team that does complex work.
  • Managing systems and processes including performance management, budgeting, and forecasting processes, human resources.
  • Extensive experience working with Indigenous and diverse communities.
  • Developing, evaluating, implementing policy initiatives, programs, and services.
  • Demonstrated capacity to build effective partnerships with internal and external customers, clients, staff, and stakeholders essential to this position.
  • Strong planning, analytical, issues management and consultative skills are required.
  • Assets : Project management.
  • Proficient computer skills.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Share Point.
  • Working knowledge of the Child, Youth, and Family Enhancement Act, Child Intervention Practice Framework, Signs of Safety.
Benefits
  • Northern Allowance – additional allowance of $241.38 for each bi-weekly pay period served.
  • Attraction Bonus – Fort McMurray and positions above the 57th Parallel - 25% of based salary paid out in the first year of employment (2-year return service agreement)
  • Retention Allowance - annual retention bonus of $6,000 ($3,000.00 paid out in March and $3,000.00 paid out in September).
  • Management Employee Pension Plan (MEPP) – https://www.mepp.ca/page/mepp-home

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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