Job Description

Competition # : 36547

Department: Environment and Climate Change

Location: Multiple Locations

Type of Employment: Temporary

Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG

Closing Date: 9/16/2022 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change's role is to protect the environment, human health and farm animal welfare through regulatory excellence, conservation, partnership, and promotion. To achieve this, we strive to develop legislation, regulations and policies, process notifications, applications, and approvals for regulated activities based on sound scientific knowledge and expertise. Our goal is to educate, inspect, and enforce to ensure compliance with legislation and regulations. We also proactively respond to environmental, farm animal welfare, and human health risks and work to develop programs and deliver services to enhance protection in these areas.

This position is in the Regional Integration of Compliance and Enforcement (RICO) Unit within our Inspection, Compliance, and Enforcement (ICE) Division. The ICE program ensures effective regulatory oversight and operational delivery across multiple disciplines and is foundational to the key objectives, outcomes, and deliverable of all the departments program areas.

About Our Opportunity

The Integrations and Operations Coordinator is responsible for working across the department with a variety of stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of complex and dynamic programs province wide within the ICE Division. As the Integrations and Operations Coordinator, you provide leadership for the integration of new and existing programs and initiatives by engaging with internal teams, providing leadership for managing change, and ensuring alignment with the division's business practices and ICE program goals. The Integration and Operations Coordinator is responsible for developing operational policy, planning, playing a leadership role in project work and implementing the division's quality assurance and onboarding programs.

As the Integrations and Operations Coordinator, you contribute to the ongoing development, implementation, and promotion of the ICE program, by helping to implement plans and working with internal teams to monitor program implementation for process efficiencies. In consultation with the ICE team, you identify opportunities to further develop and strengthen consistency in program implementation strategies that align with the department's strategic goals and objectives.

Primary Accountabilities

• Developing new or updating existing operational procedures, policies, and tools to ensure the ICE program is meeting its legislated requirements.
• Participating or leading key divisional projects to improve the delivery and integration of the ICE program and input into strategic decision making.
• Lead the development and implementation of program quality assurance and quality control reviews to evaluate outcomes, performance, service standards, and interpretation and application of ICE program policies and procedures.
• Participate or lead continuous improvement initiatives of key ICE program components to ensure program effectiveness.
• Assisting with planning for future direction of the ICE program including design, recommendation of methodologies, planning, implementation, and evaluation strategies.
• Implements the divisions onboarding program by mentoring new inspectors and officers through the program components in collaboration with management.
• Provides leadership and expertise on change management and internal communications.
• Identifying process improvement opportunities and leading or participating in implementation and evaluation.
• Regular communication, engagement, and consultation with internal and external stakeholders.
• The position will present, inform, and make effective recommendations to leadership with a focus on strategic decision-making and impact of recommendations.

Qualifications and Experience

As the successful candidate, you will have a bachelor's degree in a related field plus 6 years related experience; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

The ideal incumbent will be knowledgeable in NSE's mandate, processes, and strategic priorities; possess a high degree of patience, compassion, and understanding; demonstrate strong organizational and time management skills while working in an often fast paced environment; demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience providing advice and developing recommendations to senior leadership, including the preparation of briefing notes, reports, and presentations; possess enthusiasm and positivity for working and communicating with others in a team environment; demonstrate the ability to establish genuine and collaborative relationships internal and external to the department; possess strong problem solving and decision making abilities; the ability to consider multiple view points and manage competing perspectives diplomatically; demonstrate innovation and be solution orientated. Having project management skills and experience; knowledge of NSEs technology platforms including SNAP-ATS and FileNet; and having training or experience in change management will be considered assets.

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 to learn more about our various benefits offering and eligibility criteria.

Working Conditions

Some travel within Nova Scotia may be required and occasionally to other provinces.

Additional Information

This is a TEMPORARY employment opportunity for 2 positions with the anticipated end date of March 31, 2023 for both positions. The appointment status ('term', 'temporary' or 'casual') is dependent on the start date of the successful candidate.

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: $3,001.65 - $3,525.41 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 Competitions@novascotia.ca.