Associate Director, Navigation & Associate Director, Recovery Pathways

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Job Title: Associate Director, Navigation & Intake

Job Requisition ID: 80171

Ministry: Mental Health and Addiction

Location: Edmonton

Full or Part-Time: Full Time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Permanent/Temporary: Permanent

Scope: Open Competition

Closing Date: May 19, 2026

Classification: Manager, Zone 2 (M41Z2)

Salary: $3,806.46 to $5,122.39 bi-weekly ($99,349 - $133,694 annually) The Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction is transforming Alberta’s health system to the Alberta Recovery Model, which adopts a recovery-oriented approach for addiction and mental health.

For more information see: . A recovery-oriented system of care is a coordinated network of personalized, community-based services for people at risk of or experiencing addiction and mental health challenges. It provides access to a full continuum of services and support, from prevention and intervention to treatment and recovery.

The vision is for every Albertan to have the opportunity to pursue recovery and live a healthy and productive life. The Ministry also liaises with the Office of the Alberta Health Advocates and Recovery Alberta. To learn more about Alberta Mental Health and Addiction and what we have to offer, follow this link: .

The Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction (MHA) is building Alberta’s new Compassionate Intervention (CI) program, supporting vulnerable youth and adults through a coordinated, recovery-oriented system of care is hiring into a leadership role that will help shape and operate this groundbreaking provincial program. This position offer the opportunity to influence real system-level change, lead high impact teams, and contribute to an innovative, recovery focused service for Albertans. As the Associate Director of Navigation & Intake, you will lead the OSD’s public-facing operations – the starting point for every client journey.

Your team helps individuals, families, service providers, and referring parties understand the CI process and access appropriate supports. In this role, you will: Guide the delivery of compassionate, trauma informed navigation services for people seeking help. Oversee the end-to-end intake and application process, ensuring applications are complete, timely, and compliant with legislation.

Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure a health-focused, coordinated approach to apprehension and conveyance. Coordinate the collection of critical records and information from law enforcement, health professionals, and community agencies to support Commission hearings. Work directly with the Compassionate Intervention Commission and Recovery Alberta to advance applications and ensure applicants receive timely assessments.

Coach, support, and develop intake staff, fostering a high performing team grounded in service excellence and legislative accountability. Develop, strengthen and refine operational procedures, privacy safe practices, and quality improvement measures across Navigation & Intake.

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process. This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

Competencies Create Problem Solving – Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues. Engages perspective to seek root causes. Finds ways to improve complex systems. Employs resources from other areas to solve problems. Engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.

Systems

Thinking – Takes a long-term view towards organization's objectives and how to achieve them. Takes holistic long-term view of challenges and opportunities. Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives.

Works towards actions and plans aligned with APS values. Works with others to identify areas for collaboration. Drive for Results – Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes. Uses variety of resources to monitor own performance standards.

Acknowledges even indirect responsibility. Commits to what is good for Albertans even if not immediately accepted. Reaches goals consistent with APS direction.

Build Collaborative

Environments – Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict. Encourages broad thinking on projects and works to eliminate barriers to progress. Facilitates communication and collaboration. Anticipates and reduces conflict at the outset. Credits others and gets talent recognized. Promotes collaboration and commitment. Qualifications

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