Strategic Planning Analyst III - Manager, Research and Innovation Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 54116)

Description

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) requires a highly effective leader to manage the Research and Innovation Section within the Strategy and Innovation Branch. This role will be responsible for the management and prioritization of research and innovation at EPS. This will include leading and coordinating relevant EPS research internally and externally. It will also include leading strategic foresight, employee innovation, and evidence-based decision making at EPS. This role will manage the work of the Research and Innovation team.

Responsibilities will include:

• Lead research and innovation functions to establish EPS as a forward-thinking police service.
• Lead the research and innovation team, including capacity building, supervision, and other people management functions.
• Oversee strategic foresight activities to ensure EPS is using leading ideas to anticipate and better prepare for change.
• Oversee employee innovation including formal programs to gather, develop, and test ideas that impact the programs and services EPS delivers.
• Lead research related to strategic initiatives being planned and implemented at EPS.
• Lead jurisdictional scanning through close relationships with other similar police services.
• Oversee the Research Community of Practice and the Research Advisory Council.
• Maintain strong working relationships with current operational and investigative police members to solicit ideas and feedback with respect to finding solutions to existing challenges/gaps.
• Develop concise briefing notes and reports to document and communicate the findings and recommendations of research studies to internal and external stakeholders, including executive members and the Edmonton Police Commission.
• Effectively integrate innovations and research into relevant work areas of the EPS to ensure sustainability.
• Keep current with criminological and policing research and innovations.
• Coordinate, prioritize and manage externally led research requests and proposals.
• Performing other related duties as required.