Competition # : 49312

Department: Elections Nova Scotia

Location: BURNSIDE

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

Closing Date: 29-Jul-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Our Opportunity

The Manager of Election Planning and Services serves as a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for overseeing a comprehensive portfolio of election readiness initiatives. This role directs a dedicated team in the implementation and execution of critical projects, ensuring Elections Nova Scotia remains prepared to deliver seamless by-elections and provincial general elections.

Primary Accountabilities

• Provide strategic leadership for program delivery, project execution, and enterprise risk management.
• Oversee project planning, budgeting, resource allocation, and performance to ensure operational excellence and successful outcomes.
• Lead business process optimization initiatives to enhance efficiency, consistency, compliance, and service delivery.
• Champion organizational change management strategies that support the adoption of new processes, systems, and technologies.
• Direct large-scale logistics operations, including vendor management, distribution planning, and business continuity measures.
• Lead procurement and sourcing activities, including RFP development, vendor evaluation, contract administration, and policy compliance.

Qualifications and Experience

As the ideal candidate for this position, you will have a bachelor's degree, plus several years of progressive and relevant experience. To be successful in this role, you possess:

• A positive and professional approach to leadership
• Strong relationship building skills
• Demonstrated experience managing:
• Independent projects and programs of projects
• Engagement with internal and/or external stakeholders
• Excellent writing, organization, and planning skills
• Highly organized, confident communicator and presenter
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to work under pressure
• Experience within government, specifically leading the development of recommendations and briefings to support key decision making, for senior leadership is considered an asset.

In addition to the above, you will also have excellent interpersonal skills and poses a high level of competence in both written and verbal communication. You have excellent judgement, a high degree of professionalism and integrity along with respect for discretion and confidentially of information as required. You must be able to effectively respond to high volumes of work.

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 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
• A Dynamic, client-focused office environment where service excellence and teamwork are our focus.

Pay Grade: EC 10

Salary Range: $3,247.28 - $4,059.12 Bi-Weekly