Policy Analyst

St. John's, NL
Hybrid
Posted Oct 15, 2026
1 position

$72–$85 / hour

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Office presence: 3 days per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Advance the Policy Modernization Initiative by researching, drafting, reviewing, and finalizing policy instruments, while coordinating stakeholder consultation and governance approvals. Develop implementation and communications plans, maintain project controls and status reporting, and complete the project handover by March 31, 2027.

Job details

Hiring: Policy Analyst Location: St. John’s, Newfoundland, Hybrid (3 days a week in office) Duration: October 26, 2026 – March 31, 2027 Hourly Rate: $72/hour - $85/hour (based on experience) Client: Public Sector Foundational work has already been completed, including governance frameworks, policy templates, draft policies, dashboards, and project tracking tools. The Policy Analyst will lead the completion of remaining policy development activities and support the approval and implementation process. Responsibilities: The Policy Analyst will work under the direction of the Corporate and Strategic Services Branch and will be accountable for advancing the existing Policy Modernization Initiative from its current stage through further development, review, approval, implementation planning, and project closeout. Policy Inventory, Prioritization and Work Planning The Policy Analyst will: Review the existing policy modernization framework, policy inventory, governance model, templates, draft instruments, dashboards, decision logs, and project plans. Confirm the status, scope, dependencies, approval path, and priority of each outstanding policy, standard, procedure, guideline, and supporting governance document. Policy Inventory, Prioritization and Work Planning Policy Research, Analysis and Drafting The Policy Analyst will: Conduct jurisdictional, legislative, regulatory, policy, and leading-practice research relevant to the assigned policy instruments. Assess operational, governance, privacy, security, information management, financial, legal, human resource, and service-delivery implications, as applicable. Complete and refine assigned policies and related standards, procedures, guidelines, roles and responsibilities, definitions, compliance requirements, exception processes, and supporting tools. Ensure documents are clear, internally consistent, practical to implement, aligned with the approved OCIO policy framework and templates, and written for the intended audience. Maintain traceability between consultation input, analysis, decisions, revisions, and final policy wording. Stakeholder Consultation and Validation The Policy Analyst will: Plan and facilitate interviews, workshops, working sessions, and document reviews with OCIO subject matter experts, policy owners, operational teams, and other stakeholders. Prepare consultation materials, capture feedback and decisions, analyze competing requirements, and recommend practical resolutions. Validate that proposed requirements are operationally feasible, appropriately risk-based, and supported by clear accountabilities and implementation considerations. Escalate unresolved issues, policy conflicts, material risks, and decisions requiring executive direction. Governance, Approval and Executive Support The Policy Analyst will: Coordinate the review and approval cycle for each policy instrument, including quality assurance, document control, version management, records of decision, and required signoffs. Prepare decision notes, briefing notes, presentations, approval packages, Treasury Board submission materials, and other executive documentation, as required. Present policy analysis, options, recommendations, risks, and implementation considerations to senior leadership and governance committees, as required. Incorporate approved changes and prepare final publication ready documents and authoritative records. Implementation, Communications and Project Control The Policy Analyst will: Develop implementation and communications plans that identify audiences, key messages, sequencing, responsibilities, training or awareness needs, transition activities, and measures of completion. Prepare supporting implementation products, which may include FAQs, guidance, checklists, templates, process maps, compliance tools, and presentation materials. Maintain the project dashboard, schedule, action log, issue and risk log, decision log, document register, and progress reports. Provide regular status updates that clearly identify progress, upcoming milestones, dependencies, decisions required, and risks to the March 31, 2027 completion date. Transfer completed documents, working files, research, consultation records, and project controls to designated OCIO team at assignment close. Key Deliverables and Completion Requirements The Policy Analyst will: Review policy inventory and prioritized work plan for all remaining modernization activities. Completed draft and final policy instruments, including associated standards, procedures, guidelines, and governance documents assigned during the engagement. Consultation plans, records of feedback, decision logs, issue analyses, and documented recommendations. Complete executive and approval materials, including briefing documents and Treasury Board submission support where required. Communications and implementation plans, together with supporting tools and materials for approved policies. Update current project dashboard, schedule, document register, action log, risk and issue log, and final status report. Complete handover package and knowledge transfer session before March 31, 2027. Must Haves: Post-secondary education in Public Administration, Political Science, Business, Communications, Information Management, Information Technology, or a related field. Minimum 5 years’ experience in policy analysis, policy development, governance, or a related field. Demonstrated experience in development and modernization of government policies, standards, directives, procedures, or legislative and governance frameworks. Demonstrated experience with executive briefings, Treasury Board submissions, decision notes, or other senior-level approval materials. Demonstrated experience in collaborating with subject matter experts to research, analyze, draft, validate, and finalize policy content. Demonstrated experience with policy implementation, communications, and project controls. Demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and written and oral communication. Demonstrated experience with facilitation of policy review, revision, approval, communication, and adoption. We appreciate all interest; however, only candidates whose experience fully meets the posted requirements will be considered. Interested? If you meet the above criteria apply now! **AI is not being used in the application/recruitment process for this position**

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Requirements

Requires post-secondary education in a relevant field and at least five years of experience in policy analysis, development, governance, or a related area. Candidates must have demonstrated experience with government policy modernization, senior-level approval materials, stakeholder consultation, policy implementation, communications, and project controls.