Job Description

Competition # : 37104

Department: Communities, Culture, Tourism & Heritage

Location: TRURO

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG

Closing Date: 11/14/2022 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

Nova Scotia's culture and heritage contribute to vibrant communities and enrich the quality of life in every part of the province. The Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage invites Nova Scotians to experience and participate in our rich cultural expression.

By exploring our past, we appreciate where we came from. This enriches our lives today and gives us insight for times ahead. Through investing in our future, we help realize the potential of our people and talents. We foster an environment that embraces ideas and innovation. Jobs are generated and our creative economy flourishes. Encouraging cultural expression brings life to our communities. We each contribute to the province we call home through distinct perspectives and traditions. Together, our diversity defines the uniqueness of Nova Scotia.

About Our Opportunity

As the Regional Manager (Program Admin Officer 4), you provide leadership to the coordination of services and programs, building community wellbeing in sport, recreation, and physical activity in the Fundy Region (East Hants, Cumberland County, and Colchester County).

As the Regional Manager you serve as the primary contact for the Department in the region by overseeing initiatives and services, ensuring the effective operation of the regional office. You develop, maintain multi-sectoral partnerships, while supporting the Department's goal of being an equitable and inclusive workplace that, at all levels, reflects and respects the diversity of Nova Scotia's population, where all employees feel welcome and valued. As the Regional Manager. You will work horizontally across government to ensure your work is aligned with key government priorities such as Let's Get Moving Nova Scotia, Count Us In: Nova Scotia's Action Plan in Response to the International Decade for People of African Descent, the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action, and the work of the Accessibility Directorate.

This position reports to the Director of Regional Services.

Primary Accountabilities

The Regional Manager has working relationship with a diverse group of partners and stakeholders, specifically Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities and works collaboratively, both internally and externally, using best practices and being well informed on emerging trends that enable a range of services. We are seeking a champion of equity, diversity, and inclusion who has a demonstrated record of:

• Promote active living and healthy communities
• Regional Manager uses a community development approach to creating supportive and sustainable recreation, sport and physical activity environments in the region.
• Builds community sport and recreation capacity by providing resources and knowledge for partnership, organizational, and leadership development
• Identifying and removing barriers that prevent applicants of equity-deserving groups from accessing programs and services, ensuring the lens of equity, diversity and inclusion is woven into policy, operations, and service delivery
• Contributes to a collaborative model of service delivery by providing networking opportunities, developing and maintaining multi-sectoral partnerships, and supporting inter-departmental and inter-governmental relationships.
• Ensures the effective operation of the regional office by serving as the primary sport and recreation contact for the Province in the region
• Provides supervisory and mentoring support to the regional team, administers and advises on CSR grant programs, and administering the regional office budget.
• Coordinating resources and efforts aimed to facilitate participation in quality physical activity, sport and recreation, building community and organizational capacity
• Provides quality information and expert advice to government officials, municipalities, community recreation and sport organizations, other regional/provincial partners and the public through briefing notes, reports, and consultative services

Qualifications and Experience

To be successful in this role, you will have a Bachelors' degree plus 6 years related experience. An equivalent combination of training and experience will be accepted. Experience and knowledge working with racialized communities including Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities is required.

You also have:

• Experience engaging partners and stakeholders, leading strategy and policy development, designing and implementing initiatives and services
• Ability to be creative and forward thinking and to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external)
• Knowledge in the recreation, physical activity, and sport sectors
• Appreciation for the role that sport, recreation and physical activity can play in fostering environmental stewardship
• Experience managing staff, budgets and grant programs
• Commitment to advancing equity and anti-racism in sport and recreation

You possess strong presentation, facilitation, and communication skills (verbal and written). You are knowledgeable, skilled in consulting and facilitation processes and prepare well written and professional documents, reports, and presentations. You are also creative, outcome focused and strive for innovation, using technology and online applications to capture, manage and share information.

We will assess the above qualifications and competencies using one or more of the following tools: written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.

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.

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.