Job Information

Job Title: Manager, Child Intervention - Grand Prairie, AB

Job Requisition ID: 86936

Ministry: Children and Family Services

Location: Grande Prairie

Full or Part-Time: Full Time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Permanent/Temporary: 1 Permanent and 1 Temporary (Travelling)

Scope: Open

Closing Date: November 04, 2026

Classification: Manager Zone 2 (M41Z2)

Salary: $3,920.66 to $5,276.07 bi-weekly ($102,329 to $137,705 / year)

The Ministry of Children and Family Services funds programs and services to support vulnerable children, youth, families, and individuals to live safely and succeed in Alberta. This includes providing services and resources to protect children and youth from abuse and neglect and effectively address harm that has placed them in need of intervention. Mentoring and support services are available to youth transitioning into healthy, productive adults. The ministry also invests in community-based groups that support prevention and early intervention services such as Family Resource Networks, youth emergency shelters as well as programs that raise awareness and help respond to family violence, sexual violence, and abuse.

To find out more about our work visit: https://www.alberta.ca/children-and-family-services.

Role Responsibilities

Are you a transformational leader with a passion for strengthening children, youth, families, and communities? Children and Family Services – North Region is seeking an experienced Manager, Child Intervention to lead dedicated teams delivering critical intervention services across Northern Alberta.

Reporting to the Director, Child Intervention, in this role, you will provide strategic and operational leadership, support excellence in frontline practice, and help create lasting, positive outcomes for children and families while working in partnership with Indigenous communities, service providers, and community stakeholders.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

• Provide strategic leadership to multidisciplinary Child Intervention teams by coaching, mentoring, and supporting staff to deliver high-quality, client-centered services while fostering employee engagement, wellness, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Lead the delivery of Child Intervention services by exercising delegated authority under the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act, ensuring programs, practices, and decisions comply with legislation, provincial standards, ministry policies, and regional priorities.
• Champion continuous improvement and organizational change by implementing ministry and regional initiatives, applying systems thinking to enhance service delivery, improve practice outcomes, and strengthen supports for children, youth, families, and communities.
• Build and sustain collaborative partnerships with Indigenous communities, community agencies, service providers, and other stakeholders to deliver culturally responsive, relationship-based services that integrate Indigenous ways of knowing alongside Western practices and promote diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppressive practice.
• Provide strategic oversight of program operations by monitoring service quality, managing complex and emerging issues, ensuring compliance with quality assurance standards, and aligning operational planning and resource allocation with regional and ministry objectives.
• Lead people and resource management by overseeing recruitment, performance management, staff development, succession planning, budgeting, forecasting, and the effective stewardship of financial and operational resources.
• Promote healthy families and community well-being by leading the shift from a child protection-focused approach to one that emphasizes prevention, family preservation, collaboration, and sustainable outcomes for children, youth, and families.

Qualifications

Preferred education is a Bachelor of Social Work with four (4) years of related experience including supervisory in a child protection environment.

The following equivalencies may be considered:

• Master of Social Work and three (3) years of experience; OR
• Related university degree with four (4) years of related experience; OR
• Related diploma plus six (6) years of related experience.

Preference will be given to those who have experience in:

• Child protection responsible for providing a full range of child protection duties delegated under a provincial or equivalent child welfare legislation.
• Safety Phase and Intake Workflow.
• Leading and managing a diverse team that does complex work.
• Managing systems and processes including performance management, budgeting, and forecasting processes, human resources.
• Extensive experience working with Indigenous and diverse communities.
• Developing, evaluating, implementing policy initiatives, programs, and services.
• Demonstrated capacity to build effective partnerships with internal and external customers, clients, staff, and stakeholders essential to this position.

Additional Role & Application Requirements

This role requires that you have a valid Class 5 Driver's License and access to a reliable vehicle. The ability to travel within the region is required.

As per the Health Professions Act successful applicants must: be registered and maintain their registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW). For more information, visit www.acsw.ab.ca.

Internal Candidates must have completed or be in the process of completing the Foundations, and Relationship and Culture pathways in the Ministry’s ICUF to be considered for the role. You may be asked to confirm training completion as part of your application.

A cover letter outlining why you are applying to this role and how your experience relates to the qualifications is required.

Closing Statement

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level. We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.