Senior Policy Analyst

Competition # : 47660

Department: Link Nova Scotia

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Closing Date: 09-Jan-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

Building and maintaining our provincial infrastructure is no small job. Link Nova Scotia is a provincial Crown corporation tasked with long-range strategic transportation planning across Halifax and surrounding communities. We work across jurisdictions and levels of government to promote collaboration. Halifax and surrounding communities have been growing at a rapid pace recently, and population and economic growth are key priorities for the province.

Planning for such growth requires collaboration across all levels of government, businesses, communities, and interest groups, and a long-term strategy to ensure the region’s transportation system can provide support in a sustainable and resilient manner.

About Our Opportunity

The Senior Policy Analyst with Link Nova Scotia provides policy leadership and expertise to multiple branches on major policy, regulatory, and legislative initiatives. This position is consistently called upon to lead from start to finish a variety of complex policy projects while developing legislative, regulatory, policy, and process initiatives that that are strategically aligned with Link Nova Scotia priorities.

The Senior Policy Analyst provides mentorship to analysts and leaders within Link NS on effective policy development and has overall responsibility for policy requirements. This position also makes effective recommendations with a focus on strategic decision-making and impact of recommendations, provides policy analysis and strategic advice to the senior leadership team at Link NS to promote effective planning, policy development, implementation and evaluation of programs and policies related to land use and transportation infrastructure to ensure evidence-based decision making.

Will also lead projects and participate in multi-disciplinary, interdepartmental and intergovernmental teams of senior staff in the identification and analysis of options and recommendations to respond to a broad range of policy issues. Additionally, the Senior Policy Analyst will play a major role in supporting informed, effective decision-making within Link Nova Scotia, coordinate and participate extensively in areas of policy development and legislative change, and lead the Agency's business planning process and accountability requirements to assure good governance.

Primary Accountabilities

As the Senior Policy Analyst, you will be responsible for leading a variety of complex policy projects from start to finish, including developing legislative, regulatory, policy, and process initiatives that that are strategically aligned with Link Nova Scotia priorities. This work requires conducting comprehensive research, analysis, measurement, and evaluation of complex policy issues to provide strategic advice to senior leadership. This involves expert knowledge of research methods, coordination of multi-disciplinary teams to develop and/or review a wide range of deliverables, including reports, presentations, briefing notes, submissions, and other materials.

Within a typical day you will also be responsible for:

• Developing and evaluating policy options and related background material.
• Independently leading aspects of the policy and legislative process, including preparation of submissions to Executive Council.
• Leading and/or participating in working groups on specific policy issues and playing a leadership role to ensure project deadlines are met and senior staff are aware of progress.
• Preparing briefing notes and correspondence for senior staff on a wide range of matters related to Link Nova Scotia’s mandate.
• Seeking out and developing effective working relationships across a variety of departments, crown corporations, and levels of government to ensure joint policy and planning development.
• In conjunction with the Department of Public Work’s Policy and Corporate Services department, ensuring submissions to Treasury and Policy Board and Executive Council reflect a coordinated approach to policies and priorities, and…