Bilingual Administrative Assistant

Important messages

Candidates who meet the initial screening will be invited to a take-home exam on the 27 or 28 of November, 2017.

It is your responsibility to be available to this assessment.

Intent of the process

The immediate intent of this process is staff a permanent position in Sudbury. Candidates applying to this process should be willing to accept a position in Sudbury.

A pool of partially assessed candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar term and/or permanent positions (North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Thunder Bay) with various security requirements such as reliability or Secret.

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)

EDUCATION:
Successful completion of secondary school and/or an acceptable combination of education, training and experience.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
Experience in providing administrative support in a senior management office setting, including correspondence, reports and follow-up processes.

Experience in scheduling or organizing meetings, or assembling background material.

Experience creating and working with spreadsheets and databases, E-mail and electronic agenda, such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.

ABILITIES:
• Ability to work under pressure and dealing with changing priorities.
• Ability to identify and resolve problems and make recommendations.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing

PERSONAL SUITABILITY:
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Initiative
• Dependability
• Adaptability
• Judgement

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

EXPERIENCE:
• Experience in the delivery of the following financial services: pre and post verification/quality assurance, review and process claims, payments and receivables, reconcile financial systems outputs, and ensure the data integrity of financial data.

• Experience in organizing, maintaining and analysing information and financial data in various databases and/or systems.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (BBB/BBB)

Information on language requirements

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Other information

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.