Executive Director, Organizational Strategy and Performance

Government of Alberta•Calgary, AB

6d•CA$153,903 - CA$202,256•Onsite

About The Position

This is an opportunity for a seasoned, forward-thinking leader to help shape something significant: the future of the Alberta Sheriffs Police Service. Reporting to the Chief, the Executive Director, Organizational Strategy & Performance will bring creativity, structure, and strategic discipline to a Service that is evolving with purpose and ambition. For a leader who sees possibility in complexity, this role offers space to innovate translating bold ideas into practical systems, sharper governance, stronger performance, and measurable progress across the organization. The successful candidate will be someone who can challenge conventional thinking with confidence, energize teams around a clear vision, and build the planning, alignment, and accountability frameworks needed for a modern policing environment. Working alongside senior leaders, operational divisions, government partners, and communities, the Executive Director will connect strategy to action and help ensure ASPS is positioned to meet emerging public safety demands with agility, credibility, and impact. For an experienced leader ready to bring fresh energy, innovative thinking, and a builder’s mindset, this is a rare chance to leave a lasting imprint on a growing provincial police service and the communities it serves. You bring executive level competencies, including adaptability, agility, and inclusive, decisive leadership.

Requirements

Extensive senior/executive leadership experience.
Seasoned strategic leader with vision, discipline, and creative edge to help build a modern policing organization from the inside out.
Senior experience in planning, performance, governance, organizational transformation, or similarly complex public sector environments.
Senior leader experience leading enterprise level initiatives and managing strategic functions, planning and business cycle within leadership teams.
Innovative and practical.
Confident advising executive leaders.
Ability to translate complex issues into clear recommendations.
Ability to use evidence, insight, and curiosity to solve problems before they become barriers.
Experience with performance reporting.
Experience with continuous improvement.
Experience with public safety partnerships.
Experience with change leadership.
Ability to energize teams.
Ability to foster accountability.
Ability to lead with credibility in a dynamic, high-pressure environment.
A combination of related education and experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

Translate bold ideas into practical systems, sharper governance, stronger performance, and measurable progress across the organization.
Challenge conventional thinking with confidence.
Energize teams around a clear vision.
Build the planning, alignment, and accountability frameworks needed for a modern policing environment.
Connect strategy to action.
Ensure ASPS is positioned to meet emerging public safety demands with agility, credibility, and impact.
Design enterprise-wide frameworks that sharpen alignment, measure progress, and turn bold ideas into meaningful action.
Advise executive leaders.
Translate complex issues into clear recommendations.
Use evidence, insight, and curiosity to solve problems before they become barriers.