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Competition # : 50345
Department:Natural Resources
Location:Flexible
Type of Employment:Permanent
Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG
Closing Date:18-Nov-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
About UsNova Scotia is rich in natural resources – including biodiversity, forests, provincial parks and the land we manage. Natural Resources is responsible for the development, management, conservation and protection of forests, parks and wildlife resources and the administration of the province’s Crown land. Together we are working with Nova Scotians to build a better future through sustainable natural resource management.
About Our OpportunityThe Program Lead is responsible for providing advanced specialized program administrative or management work for programs with province-wide impacts. Responsibilities include overall program administration and coordination of programs. The incumbent will be responsible for identifying and designing future programs as well as developing, reviewing and evaluating proposals requiring government support.
Specifically, the incumbent of this position will provide leadership and coordination for GIS, integrated resource planning, and spatial analysis activities that are currently dispersed across multiple groups.
Primary Accountabilities- Manages and delivers required outcomes for one or more programs.
- Administers Act(s) and/or its regulations in the province, and may perform and exercise any of the powers, privileges, duties, and functions of the Minister as specified in the legislation and the designation.
- Identifies and designs programs to assist with the evaluation and planning for future direction of programs and policies for municipal and provincial organizations. Activities include program(s) development, business analysis, providing advice and policy recommendations, and may include the resource and capacity management of direct and indirect program resources.
- Acts as a consultant within government and with provincial and national organizations through the development of training programs and developing, reviewing and evaluating proposals requiring government support.
- 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 programs 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.
- Delivers a prescribed budget for the program and conducts complex analyses on budget progress while working within established procedures. Allocates resources to appropriate places and develops strategies to ensure program 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 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 team while working within an established contract management plan.
This may be the right opportunity for you if you have a bachelor's degree, along with six years of related experience or an equivalent combination of training and experience. Relevant experience would include: experience supervising or providing technical leadership to GIS, geospatial, modelling, or other technical professionals; and/or experience applying geospatial information to natural resource management.
As the successful candidate, you also have previous experience managing projects and/or programs within the desired cost, time, and quality parameters. You are focused on continuous improvement as you focus on assessing, measuring, and improving performance. You have strong analytical skills which allow you to synthesize data from multiple sources to draw appropriate conclusions and make suitable recommendations.
You also have strong relationship building and interpersonal skills which allow you to develop extensive contacts and working relationships with various internal and external stakeholders. Your expertise will assist in facilitating the integration of analysis into program development,…
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