Program Policy Analyst (Research & Stat Officer 4)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada · On-site
$79k–$96k/yr
Senior
Competition # : 49589 Department: Education & Early Childhood Development Location: HALIFAX Type of Employment: Permanent Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG Closing Date: 25-Aug-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM At…
Skills: Policy Analysis, Strategic Planning, Governance Support, Research, Data Analytics
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Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada · On-site
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$79k–$96k/yr
Full-time
bachelor degree, postgraduate degree
Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, General Illness, Short Term Disability
Posted 1d ago
Apply by Aug 26
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Program Policy Analyst provides independent policy analysis, strategic advice, and governance support to advance key initiatives within the Early Years Branch. They are responsible for conducting research, developing evidence-based policy recommendations, and modernizing analytical practices through the use of emerging technologies.
Requirements
Candidates must possess a Bachelor's degree with seven years of experience or a Master's degree with five years of experience in policy development, research, or a related field. Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills are required, along with experience in governance and cross-functional collaboration.
Full job description
Competition # : 49589
Department: Education & Early Childhood Development
Location: HALIFAX
Type of Employment: Permanent
Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG
Closing Date: 25-Aug-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
About Us
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (EECD) is leading the transformation of the early years and public education system in Nova Scotia. We are doing this by designing an innovative curriculum, facilitating excellence in teaching and learning, ensuring an inclusive education experience, and working closely with our partners in early learning and education. This will provide children, students, and families with a strong foundation for success. This department is a perfect fit for those that want to be part of the future of early learning and public education in the province by supporting student learning in a progressive and responsive policy environment.
About Our Opportunity
The Early Years Branch is seeking a highly skilled policy professional to support operational policy development and coordination across a complex and evolving portfolio of initiatives.
As the Program Policy Analyst, you will provide independent policy analysis, strategic advice, governance support, and coordination services that help operational and project teams advance key priorities. Working across multiple initiatives, you will assess complex issues, develop policy options and recommendations, identify risks and interdependencies, and support informed decision-making by management and senior leadership.
You will support projects and operational teams through structured, time-limited assignments involving policy analysis, governance support, policy inventories, environmental scans, issue assessment, and policy framework development. Working closely with operational and project teams, Legal Services, Corporate Policy, and senior leaders, you will help ensure policy work is coordinated, evidence-informed, and aligned with branch priorities.
In addition to providing policy analysis and advice, you will play an important role in improving how policy work is conducted across the branch. This includes identifying opportunities to strengthen policy development processes, governance practices, policy coordination, research approaches, analytical tools, and decision-support activities to improve efficiency, consistency, and quality. The successful candidate will be expected to help modernize policy and analytical practices through the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and other emerging tools that enhance policy development, analysis, documentation, and decision-making.
Primary Accountabilities
Conduct research, environmental scans, jurisdictional reviews, and analysis to support operational policy development and policy change initiatives.
Assess complex policy issues and develop evidence-based options, recommendations, and advice for management and senior leadership.
Evaluate policy risks, trade-offs, impacts, and emerging issues, and recommend practical courses of action.
Develop and maintain policies, standards, procedures, frameworks, and other policy instruments.
Prepare briefing materials, issue analyses, discussion papers, and other decision-support documents.
Support coordination of policy development activities across projects, programs, and operational initiatives.
Identify policy interdependencies, risks, gaps, and alignment issues across initiatives and provide recommendations to support decision-making.
Support governance processes through policy analysis, documentation of decisions, and development of recommendations and supporting materials.
Maintain effective working relationships with operational teams, project teams, Legal Services, Corporate Policy, and other partners.
Support the development and continuous improvement of policy frameworks, methodologies, tools, governance processes, and policy lifecycle practices.
Maintain policy inventories, policy mapping, and information required to support coordination, prioritization, and alignment of policy work.
Conduct business, operational, and stakeholder impact analysis related to policy and program initiatives.
Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, quality, and consistency of policy development, analysis, governance, and decision-support activities.
Support modernization of policy and analytical practices through the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI), automation, digital tools, and other emerging technologies.
Qualifications and Experience
As the successful candidate, you will have one of the following:
A Bachelor’s degree in public administration, political science, economics, social sciences, business administration, law, public policy, or a related field, plus seven years of related experience; or
A Master’s degree in one of the above fields, plus five years of related experience.
Your related experience must include progressive work in policy development, policy analysis, research, strategic planning, governance support, business analysis, or a related discipline.
Preparing briefing materials, reports, discussion papers, policy documents, business cases, or other decision-support materials for management and senior leadership.
Providing analysis, advice, and recommendations to management, senior leadership, governance committees, or decision-making bodies.
Working on complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, governance processes, and cross-functional collaboration.
Applying business process improvement, workflow analysis, continuous improvement, or related approaches to support policy development, governance, analytical, or decision-support activities.
You demonstrate strong analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills. You are able to independently assess complex issues, evaluate risks and trade-offs, and develop practical, evidence-based recommendations.
You also have demonstrated experience using artificial intelligence, automation tools, digital technologies, or knowledge management solutions to improve policy development, research, analysis, documentation, decision support, operational efficiency, or continuous improvement activities. The successful candidate will be expected to identify and advance opportunities to modernize policy and analytical practices through the responsible use of emerging technologies.
Experience using data, analytics, performance information, or evidence-based approaches to support policy, operational, or strategic decision-making.
Experience supporting policy development within early learning and child care, education, health, human services, community services, or other publicly funded service delivery environments.
Training or certification in Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Business Analysis, Continuous Improvement, Process Improvement, Project Management, Change Management, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, or related disciplines.
Benefits
Based on the employment status and union agreement, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here: Benefits for government employees.
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 15
Salary Range: $3,029.89 - $3,693.39 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.
Accommodation Statement: We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Candidates may request accommodations based on any grounds protected by the Human Rights Act. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].
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.
If you are receiving a pension from the Nova Scotia Public Service Superannuation Plan (PSSP) or any related plans, you cannot receive pension payments while contributing to the same plan. If you accept a position that requires PSSP contributions, your pension payments must be stopped. Please contact the Nova Scotia Pension Services Corporation for more 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 [email protected].
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