Property and Facility Officer

Important messages

When you apply to this selection process, you are not applying for a specific job, but to an inventory for future vacancies. As positions become available, applicants who meet the qualifications may be contacted for further assessment.

You are strongly encourage to apply online. If you are unable to submit your application online, it can be sent by email to:

** SCREENING QUESTIONS**
IN ADDITION TO YOUR RESUME YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE "SCREENING QUESTIONS" AND IF YOU ARE NOT APPLYING ONLINE YOU WILL NEED TO RECEIVE THEM FROM PSPC. PLEASE CONTACT PSPC TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS AT

This selection process may be limited to candidates who are Inuit enrolled under the "Nunavut Agreement”. This organizational need can be applied at any step in the selection process. When there are sufficient applicants who are Inuit enrolled under the "Nunavut Agreement", the manager has the discretion to assess and appoint those individuals first and then assess and appoint other candidates into any remaining positions. In other cases, the manager may assess all applicants at the same time and apply the organizational need criteria on a case by case basis when a Nunavut Inuk is found qualified.

If no qualified candidate is found, the area of selection will be expanded to include persons residing in Canada and Canadian citizens residing abroad. Therefore, applicants in this expanded area of selection are also encouraged to apply.

Federal government housing is available for these positions. Please see the Isolated Posts and Government Housing Directive for more information: http://www.njc-cnm.gc.ca/directive/ipgh-pile/index-eng.php.

Work environment

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) helps the Government of Canada serve Canadians. With a strong focus on quality customer service, we provide innovative common services such as real estate and building management, purchasing, banking, pay and pensions, and translation to other government departments, agencies and boards. By providing these centralized services to departments and agencies, we enable them to focus on what they do best: providing their programs and services to Canadians.

As an organization, PSPC strives to give all its employees opportunities to achieve organizational, professional and personal goals in a respectful and inclusive workplace, mobilized and supported by leadership at all levels. For more information on PSPC's People Management Philosophy and Our Commitments please see the following link: http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/apropos-about/pe-pc-eng.html

Intent of the process

This process will establish a pool of qualified candidates that may be used to staff similar positions with various tenures within PSPC (indeterminate, term, acting, assignment, or secondment).

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

A covering letter in 2,000 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)

Education:
• Graduation with a secondary school diploma or provincial/territorial approved alternative or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
• Experience in providing client focused services in an office environment with internal and/or external clients.
• Experience using Microsoft Office including Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Experience delivering financial support services.

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

Experience:
• Experience in the operations or management of real property assets.
• Experience in office leases and using leasing industry terminology.
• Experience using financial management information systems such as SIGMA, or SAP database systems, Oracle, etc.
• Experience working in a northern environment.
• Experience working in a cross-cultural environment, specifically as it relates to Inuit Culture and Values.

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of Public Services and Procurement Canada (Example: mission, vision, and services).
• Knowledge of Real Property practices.

Key Competencies:
• Values and Ethics – Serving through integrity and respect
• Thinking things through – innovating through analysis and ideas
• Engagement – working effectively with people, organizations, partners
• Excellence through results– delivering through own work, relationships and responsibilities
• Client service – Level 2

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

Ability:
• Ability to communicate in Inuktitut.

Organizational Need
Aboriginal people: Preference given to persons self-identifying as Beneficiaries of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.

Operational Requirement:
• Ability and willingness to work overtime, as required.
• Willingness to perform financial duties approximately 40% of the time.
• Willingness and ability to travel with fleet vehicle to sites around Iqaluit to complete onsite inspections.

Conditions of employment

• Obtain and maintain Reliability Status security clearance.
• Possess and maintain a valid Class 5 driver’s licence.

Other information

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
• Candidates MUST provide a cover letter and answer all screening questions as these will be used for screening purposes. You must provide concrete and detailed examples to clearly demonstrate how you meet the education and experience requirements listed in the essential qualifications and asset qualifications sections. The screening board cannot make any assumptions about your experience. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current duties. One effective approach would be to use the wording of each experience criterion as a heading and then write one or two paragraphs demonstrating that you have the required experience and ensure that clear and accurate details are provided. The curriculum vitae may be a secondary source to confirm the experience described in the cover letter. APPLICATIONS THAT DO NOT CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CANDIDATE MEETS THE SCREENING CRITERIA WILL NOT BE GIVEN FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

• Top-down consideration of scores may be used at any stage of this process to determine the number of qualified candidates who will be considered further in the process.

• Essential qualifications and asset qualification will be evaluated against depth and breadth of activities.

• A written exam will be administered.

• Candidates must obtain the required pass mark for each qualification in order to be given further consideration in the selection process.

• Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the asset qualifications, operational requirements, and organizational needs may be applied at the time of screening.

• Original proof of your education will be requested and must be provided during the selection process, in order to verify that candidates meet the education requirement. Candidates who are unable to provide proof that they meet this essential qualification as requested may be eliminated from the process. Also note, if the name on your education credentials does not match the name on your current photo identification, you will need to provide proof of your name change.

• Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/

• For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail for screening/assessment purposes (including issuing screening results, and sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and to make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidate’s responsibility to provide any changes to their personal information to the contact indicated on this job advertisement.

• Failure to respond to communications may be construed as a withdrawal from this process.

• In addition to all assessment methods, correspondence and communication in relation to this selection process may also be used to assess certain qualifications.

• Interviews will be conducted.

• Reference checks will be conducted.

• Applicants with disabilities: Should you require a technical aid or an alternative method of assessment to ensure an equitable assessment of your qualifications, please indicate so in your application.

• 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.

• Candidates from outside the federal public service may be required to pay for their own travel and relocation expenses.

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.