Senior Graphic Designer

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Work environment

The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is a key player in public safety. We are responsible for the supervision and reintegration of offenders serving sentences of two years or more. On a typical day, we manage approximately 15,000 offenders placed within our 43 institutions and more than 8,500 offenders under supervision in the community.

We are building a strong, vibrant, and diverse team of professionals. CSC has been widely recognized as an international leader in correctional justice. We offer a variety of work locations with challenges and impacts like no other organization in Canada.

CSC supports professional growth. We offer career development opportunities and we believe in continuous learning throughout your career.

Intent of the process

The immediate intent to staff one English Essential position indeterminately. A pool of qualified candidates will be established and may be used to staff similar positions with various language profiles (English Essential, Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB), with various tenures (Indeterminate, Term) at Correctional Service Canada, National Headquarters.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

A covering letter in 1,000 words (maximum)

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)

• A degree from a recognized post-secondary institution, or a combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

• Recent* and significant** experience with Adobe Creative Suite, animation and motion graphics software
• Recent* and significant** experience producing video content with Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro
• Recent* and significant** experience with photography and photo editing
• Recent* experience working with HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Drupal and Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Experience with corporate branding
• Experience working with internal and external clients and stakeholders
• Experience with script writing

*Recent experience is defined as experience acquired in the last two years.

**Significant experience is defined as having performed a broad range of various and complex activities over a consecutive three-year period in a related field.

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

• Knowledge of the Correctional Service of Canada’s corporate priorities
• Knowledge of the Government of Canada’s Policy on Communications and Federal Identity
• Knowledge of print process, pre-press and print production

• Ability to develop marketing products for both digital and print
• Ability to edit photographs
• Ability to work with clients
• Ability to organize and prioritize work
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing
• Ability to communicate effectively orally

• Initiative
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail
• Judgment

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience using Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR) professional photography
• Experience maintaining photo and video databases
• Experience managing brand marketing

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:

Increased representation of Employment Equity groups:
Achieving a representative workforce has been identified an Organizational Need and may be applied in this appointment process. Applicants must complete the Employment Equity portion of the CREATE/MAINTAIN PROFILE identifying themselves as a person of that EE group in their application through www.jobs.gc.ca in order to be considered to meet the Organizational Need in this process.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Ability and willingness to work overtime as needed on short notice.
Ability and willingness to travel across Canada.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Other information

A written exam and interview will be administered. References will be sought.

Candidates must submit a cover letter which clearly demonstrates how they meet each of the essential education and experience qualifications. It is not sufficient to only state that the requirement is met or to provide a listing of current responsibilities, rather the candidate must provide concrete examples that illustrate how they meet the requirement. One suitable approach is to use each screening criteria as a heading, and provide a description outlining how that criteria is met. Failure to provide an appropriate cover letter could result in the application being eliminated from the selection process. Candidates will not be solicited for incomplete or possible missing information. Resumes will be used as a secondary source to validate the experience.

Asset qualifications could be used at the screening stage. Please ensure that your cover letter clearly indicates how you meet the asset experience qualifications where applicable. A person may be appointed even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications. However, it may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed.

For this selection process, it will be communicating with candidates by email. Candidates who apply to selection processes should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidates’ responsibility to inform us of a change of contact information during the course of this selection process and to regularly verify your incoming emails.

LEAVE/ABSENCES DURING THIS SELECTION PROCESS: It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify the Human Resources Advisor of any pre-approved leave throughout the duration of the process in order to facilitate scheduling of evaluations. An alternate date will be possible if requested for the following reasons: 1) Medical reasons with doctor’s certificate; 2) Death in your immediate family; 3) Confirmation of pre-approved travel plans or training plans (made before the advertisement posting date); 4) Religious reasons.

Please note that in addition to all assessment methods such as the application, exam, interview, correspondence and communication in relation to this selection process may also be used to assess certain qualifications.

Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent; we will contact candidates when the screening process is completed.

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.