Epidemiologist / Biostatistician

Work environment

The Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) provides scientific expertise and laboratory capacity for infectious disease monitoring, detection, investigation and outbreak response to support national and international public health action. NML strives to be the employer of choice for Canadian and international scientific and non-scientific staff. Our employees contribute leadership, ingenuity, expertise and innovation to safeguard the health of Canadians and the global community.

Intent of the process

This process will initially be used to staff one indeterminate position. The result of this selection process will also be to establish a pool of qualified candidates that may be used for future acting, specified period, deployment, assignment, secondment or indeterminate appointments within the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Other qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. Some essential and other qualifications will be assessed through your application. It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples that illustrate how you meet each qualification. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

• Degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in economics, public health, sociology, or statistics and an acceptable specialization in epidemiology**
**The courses for the specialization do not necessarily have to be part of a degree program, but may also be obtained through an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

• Experience in conducting synthesis research, analyses, and writing summary reports or peer-reviewed publications concerning zoonotic or vector-borne disease public health issues.
• Experience in writing project reports.
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations.
• Experience publishing peer-reviewed papers.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS:
• MSc or PhD degree from a post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in economics, public health, sociology, statistics or epidemiology.

Degree equivalency

• Significant* experience performing systematic or scoping reviews.
*Significant is defined as at least one year.
• Experience with quantitative or qualitative risk assessment.
• Experience with infectious disease modelling.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

• Knowledge of meta-analysis.
• Knowledge of synthesis research methodologies.
• Knowledge of zoonotic diseases and/or vector-borne diseases.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and manage projects and activities in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally.
• Ability to conduct synthesis research.
• Ability to perform meta-analysis.
• Ability to perform qualitative or quantitative analysis.
• Ability to write summary reports and publish peer-reviewed publications.

• Demonstrates integrity and respect
• Thinks things through
• Works effectively with others
• Shows initiative and being action-orientated

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:
The Public Health Agency of Canada is committed to Employment Equity. In order to ensure a diversified workforce, preference may be given to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one or more of the following Employment Equity groups: aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minority groups provided the candidate meets all essential qualifications listed on the job opportunity notice and any applicable asset qualification(s).

Other information

The client organization strongly encourages on-line applications.

All job applications should therefore be submitted through the Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS). The following are some of the benefits associated with applying on-line:

• Applicants can create a profile and a résumé that can be used when applying for other processes without having to recreate a new application each time.
• Applicants can modify their application/résumé anytime BEFORE the closing date indicated on the job advertisement.
• Applicants can verify the status of their applications at any time.
• Applicants can be notified electronically of tests or interviews and results.
• For some jobs, applicants will find important information that is only available when applying on-line, such as the job questionnaire and a complete statement of merit criteria.

To submit an application on-line, please click on the button """"Apply online"""" below.

Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact 1-800-645-5605.

All communication received from candidates throughout the staffing process may be used to assess qualifications on the Statement of Merit Criteria.

Reference checks may be sought.

An interview may be administered.

A written examination may be administered.

Ability to communicate in writing will be assessed by a candidate’s application for employment. Please ensure that consideration and attention is given to your written communication when submitting your application.

For this selection process, it is our intention to communicate with candidates via email for screening and assessment purposes. This will include communication of screening results and invitations to written tests and interviews. To that end, candidates must include a valid email address in their application. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure that this address is functional and that it accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is also the candidate’s responsibility to ensure accurate information is provided and updated as required.

Achieving a representative workforce has been identified as an organizational need in the merit criteria, and may be applied in this appointment process. You may also voluntarily self-identify as a member of a designated group for employment equity purposes.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application."

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.