Board Member
The Safety Codes Council (the Council) is a regulatory organization established under the Safety Codes Act (Act) of the Province of Alberta. The Council is responsible for reviewing, formulating, and managing significant components of the administration of Alberta’s safety codes system.
In recent years, Safety Codes Council has made significant improvements to adapt to an evolving industry and to modernize the organization, allowing it to improve service levels and to materially impact the reduction of ‘red tape’ for those impacted by Alberta’s safety codes system. With a relatively new CEO and a Board that is very much focused on good governance and oversight, the new Director will be joining a well-performing and future-focused organization.
Alberta’s public safety codes system depends on a strong partnership between Alberta Municipal Affairs and the Safety Codes Council. The primary goal of the partnership is to administer the safety codes system to ensure it is effective, accountable, comprehensive, and sustainable, and maintains public confidence in the system.
Individual Board Members will be recruited from various professional backgrounds to ensure a diversity of the necessary skills and professional experience required for the good governance of the Council.
To support the discharge of the legal and fiduciary requirements of the Board in its governance role, the board comprises diverse skill sets and competencies including but not limited to:
- Expertise in governance
- Finance
- Public policy
- Information technology/systems and cybersecurity
- Regulatory and compliance
- Strategy development
- Government relations
- Municipal governance
- Human resources
- Business transformation
The ideal candidate will have:
- Extensive governance experience.
- A high level of integrity and exceptional reputation, both individually and within the area of their professional experience.
- Executive level experience and is an experienced leader.
- Solid and demonstrated understanding of the role, fiduciary responsibilities, and legal duties of a Board Member, board governance, principals, practices, and structures.
- Experience working within an organization with a public interest focus, either regulatory or other public service agency.
- Institute of Corporate Directors Designation or a similar Board governance credential is preferred.
- Board experience including but not limited to:
- A public or not-for-profit organization;
- A private or for-profit organization; or,
- A Provincial Agency, Board, or Commission.
Candidates must be residents of the Province of Alberta and cannot be employed by the Government of Alberta.
Applications are encouraged immediately and should be submitted online ideally by Dec 16, 2022 at www.odgersberndtson.com/en/careers/18428. For more information, please contact Jennifer Ward, Partner or Amelia Keller, Consultant of Odgers Berndtson. We thank all those who express an interest, however only those chosen for further development will be contacted.
Safety Codes Council is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessible Canada Act, 2019 and all applicable provincial accessibility standards, upon request, accommodation will be provided by both Odgers Berndtson and Safety Codes Council throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.
Odgers Berndtson is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in all the work that we do. As part of our efforts to better understand our ability to reach as broad a pool of candidates as possible for our searches, our DEI team would like to encourage you to take a moment and access our Self-Declaration Form.
