Policy Advisor

Location: Edmonton
Status: Full-Time
Posting Date: March 23, 2011

Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is looking for an experienced and self-motivated Policy Advisor to join the Alberta & The North Regional office. The Policy Advisor will be responsible for overseeing the policy development process from start to finish. Core responsibilities include regularly advising and briefing the Alberta & The North Regional staff on regional policy & legislative development, working closely with the Policy Development department and the Communications department on the development of policies, as well as overseeing stakeholder policy consultation initiatives.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide sound strategic policy advice to the Alberta & The North Region, particularly about property & automobile insurance.
• Lead, perform, and coordinate with the Policy Development department about highly complex and politically sensitive policy analysis and development activities to support new policies or proposed regulations. This includes anticipating issues through research and developing innovative solutions, strategies or responses for a broad range of issues.
• Liaise and coordinate with the Vice-President, Alberta & The North, and regional Policy Advisors, to strategically position IBC policy and to ensure consistency in policy approaches and integration with overall government relations goals and objectives.
• Assist in the development of a variety of comprehensive research, training, briefing and policy materials for the purposes of IBC internal and field use and for government approvals.
• Represent IBC Alberta & The North Region at meetings with stakeholders, IBC staff, and internal and external committees to develop and sustain positive relationships and networks; gather information, opinions and attitudes; identify stakeholder needs; provide interpretation and clarification; develop response options; and generate cooperation and buy-in to IBC policy initiatives.
• Develop contacts in the insurance industry to seek out information and monitor developing issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in political science or a related discipline.
• Minimum five years’ experience in or exposure to political/government policy development.
• Strong conceptual, analytical and interpretive skills and the ability to deal at the highest levels of intellectual engagement in complex and multidimensional policy issue discussions.
• Policy and technical subject matter knowledge, and expertise in the property and casualty insurance field, particularly about automobile insurance will be a definite asset.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Advanced stakeholder presentation skills.
• Project management experience an asset.

Please send résumé to:

Human Resources Department
Contact: Paul Godfree
E-mail: careers@ibc.ca

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