1 - Manager, Preparedness and Response 2 - Manager, Program Development and Innovation

Intent of the process

ANTICIPATORY PROCESS :The intent of this selection process is to create a pool of qualified candidates to staff PC-04 positions of Manager, Preparedness and Response (stream 1) and Manager, Program Development and Innovation (stream 2), in Vancouver (unilingual English), Dartmouth (bilingual imperative BBB/BBB) or Montréal (bilingual imperative BBB/BBB) in order to meet future operational needs.

Please note that this pool of qualified candidates could also be used to staff identical or similar positions requiring various linguistic requirements (English essential or Bilingual imperative) and profiles (BBB/BBB and CBC/CBC), various security requirements (reliability or secret status) and various tenures (Indeterminate, determinate, deployment, assignment, secondment, acting, Interchange Canada and extensions) within Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

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)

EDUCATION

Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution, with acceptable specialization in physics, geology, chemistry or some other science relevant to the position.

Note: The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and must have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE
(For both streams)

E1 - Significant* experience in providing strategic advice and recommendations to management (director or above) on scientific or environmental issues.

E2 - Experience in developing position papers, reports, briefing notes, or presentations.

E3 - Experience in managing complex projects**.

E4 - Significant* experience in leading teams.

E5 - Experience in developing and maintaining partnerships with internal and external stakeholders regarding scientific or environmental issues.

E6 - Significant* and recent*** experience in coordinating preparedness and response activities in pollution related emergencies.

FOR STREAM 2 ONLY (Manager, Program Development and Innovation):

E7 - Significant* and recent*** experience in managing geographic information systems, data, and tools.

DEFINITIONS:

*Significant experience will be assessed in terms of relevance, complexity and responsibility of the duties performed (depth and breadth).

Complex project** is defined as having three (3) or more of the following factors:

1. Multidimensional: a multi-tier diverse set of environmental issues and /or technologies requiring integration, and negotiation or collaboration, with stakeholders / partners;
2. Requirement for high availability and mission critical (24/7) systems;
3. A program of national/international or significant corporate scope, or having an impact on the Canadian public, industry or various levels of Government (federal / provincial / territorial / municipal);
4. Represents a number of stakeholders / partners with diverse interests;
5. Sensitive: in terms of having a potential for a) media coverage, b) classified security issues, c) high risk factors, d) critical time sensitivity, or e) political sensitivity issues.

Recent*** is defined as experience acquired within the past five years.

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION
(For both streams)

AED1 - Postgraduate degree from a recognized university with an acceptable specialization in engineering, physics, geology, chemistry, biology or other science related discipline relevant to the position.

FOR STREAM 2 ONLY (Manager, Program Development and Innovation):

AED2 - Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in geomatics.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE
(For both streams)

AE1 - Direct experience playing role in Incident Command System.

AE2 - Field experience responding to pollution related emergencies.

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

Various language requirements
Dartmouth : Bilingual imperative BBB/BBB
Vancouver: English essential
Montréal: Bilingual imperative BBB/BBB

Please note that the pool of qualified candidates that may be created could be used to staff similar or identical positions with various linguistic requirements (English essential or Bilingual imperative) and profiles (BBB/BBB and CBC/CBC).

Information on language requirements

Second Language Writing Skills Self-Assessment
In order to help you decide if you should apply to a bilingual position, an optional self-assessment of your writing skills in your second official language is available for you to take before completing your application.

For more information, please consult:
Unsupervised Internet Test of Second Language Writing Skills

KNOWLEDGE
(For both streams)

K1 - Knowledge of emergency management legislation, roles, principles and policies in Canada.

K2 - Knowledge of emergency management techniques and processes.

FOR STREAM 2 ONLY (Manager, Program Development and Innovation):

K3 - Knowledge of technologies and standards, scientific issues and policies in the Federal Government supporting geomatics and geospatial data.

K4 - Knowledge of key principles, considerations and best practices for implementing a Geospatial Information System Enterprise Solutions.

K5 - Knowledge of project management principles / best practices.

COMPETENCIES
(For both streams)

C1 - Analytical Thinking.
C2 - Planning and Organizing.
C3 - Partnering.
C4 - Oral Communication.
C5 - Written Communication.
C6 - Team Leadership.

Conditions of employment

(For both streams)

1. Availability to work overtime, as required.
2. Availability to be on stand-by (24/7) as required for operational reasons.
3. Availability to be deployed to industrial facilities and remote locations on a temporary basis as required for operational reasons.
4. Hold a valid driver’s license.
5. Medical requirement: must comply with occupational health requirements throughout his/her period of employment and periodically undergo an occupational health assessment.
6. For health and safety reasons, some assignments may require the incumbent to be clean shaven.
7. Must be willing and able to travel occasionally to other areas of Canada and internationally, as required.

Reliability and Security: Secret Clearance

Other information

Candidacies must be submitted online otherwise they will not be considered. Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact 1-800-645-5605. Also, when applying online, you will be asked to provide an answer to pre-screening questions assessing your education and experience. Failure to provide an answer to each pre-screening question assessing essential experience and education criteria will result in your candidacy being eliminated from this selection process.

Furthermore, please note that your competency to communicate effectively in writing may be assessed in part by the answers provided to the pre-screening questions. It is therefore important to ensure you provide complete answers to each of these questions.

Candidates may also be assessed using the following tools: written exam, interview and reference check.

A pass mark will be established for each qualification. However, achieving the pass mark is not guarantee of an appointment or that candidates will be put through the next stages of the assessment process. A cut-off score (in other words, establishing a higher threshold than the pass mark and selecting only the candidates who meet this threshold) and a top-down approach (in other words, establishing a maximum number of candidates who can proceed to the next assessment stage) may be used at any step if there is a sufficient number of candidates to meet immediate and anticipated staffing needs.

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 staffing. Candidates may be contacted and assessed against these criteria at any time during this process.

Asset qualifications may be used in the screening process. Therefore candidates must clearly demonstrate in their application how they meet the asset criteria for education and experience.

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and 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. Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent.

In the case of an acting appointment, the Public Service Employment Regulations enables the organization to exclude the appointee from respecting official language proficiency when the department is unable to fill the position with an appointment of a person who meets the language proficiency qualification. Therefore, we would encourage all to apply, in the event the organization is unable to fill the position with an appointment of a person who meets the language proficiency, others may be considered.

If you are a federal public service employee, please identify clearly your substantive group and level and your employment status on your application form.

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/.

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.

Environment and Climate Change Canada is committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population we serve. In support of our Engagement Strategy to achieve employment equity goals, selection may be limited to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Women, Aboriginals, Persons with a Disability or visible minority.

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.