IM/IT, Business Portfolio Manager

Important messages

The candidates must meet all the essential qualifications as stated in the Statement of Merit Criteria to be appointed to a position.

Note: The education and experience requirements will be used for the screening process. Applicants must clearly show in their application how they meet each of the requirements by providing concrete examples.

Duties

The Business Portfolio Manager (BPM) is a trusted advisor and key point of contact for OSFI’s Information Technology / Information Management (IM/IT) internal business clients. The BRM leverages available resources and expertise to enable clients to achieve their mandate while adhering to IM/IT’s enterprise vision and guiding principles.

Intent of the process

Intent of the process

The intention of the process is to staff one (1) position for a period of a three (3) year term.

A pool of partially and qualified candidates may be established through this process to staff identical or similar positions at the RE-06 group and level in the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada with the possibility of various tenures (indeterminate, deployment, acting, assignment, secondment, term).

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)

Graduation with a degree from a recognized university with an acceptable specialization in economics, commerce, business administration, computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or other related area.

Degree equivalency

Candidates must meet each of the experience elements.

*Significant experience in outbound or inbound IM/IT sales or account management or customer relationship management.

*Significant experience presenting complex technology solutions and proposals to key stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including senior management.

*Significant experience writing IM/IT product and/or services proposals.

Experience in IM/IT service delivery management.

Experience in project management and project portfolio management in the field of IM/IT initiatives.

Experience in business analysis and business process re-engineering.

*Significant is defined as depth and breadth or experience normally associated with continuous performance of the duties over a period of 5 years.

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

ASSET EXPERIENCE
- Experience working as client relationship or portfolio relationship manager for an IM/IT organization.
- Experience working as change manager role to support “people/organizational change management” in a business transformation project.
- Experience managing IM/IT Service Level Agreements.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (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

Candidates must meet each of the knowledge elements.

Knowledge in managing client requirements and facilitating client projects.

Knowledge of IM/IT portfolio management processes, including business case development and portfolio performance reporting.

Knowledge of client relationship management (CRM) processes and systems.

Ability to influence key stakeholders.

Ability to write compelling IM/IT proposal literature.

COMPETENCIES
Impact and influence
Conceptual thinking
Team leadership
Change Leadership
Service orientation

Ability to communicate effectively orally.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

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

EDUCATION

Masters Degree (MBA, MPA)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Business Relationship Management (BRM)


EXPERIENCE

Experience working as change manager role to support “people/organizational change management” in a business transformation project.
Experience managing IM/IT Service Level Agreements.
Experience in outbound or inbound IM / IT sales or account management or customer relationship management serving the federal public sector.
Experience in an industry sales and/or account management methodology (e.g. Target Account Selling, The Sandler System, CustomerCentric, Business Relationship Management (BRM)).

Degree equivalency

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Willingness and availability to travel
- Willingness and availability to work overtime when required.

Conditions of employment

Secret security clearance

Other information

A written exam may be administered.

An interview will be administered.

Reference checks may be sought.

Candidates invited to an interview will be required to bring proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript (original documents only). 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/.

Candidates must meet all of the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position. A candidate may be appointed to a position even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications. However, meeting these criteria is desirable and may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed.

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

Achieving a representative workforce has been identified as an organizational need in the merit criteria, and may be applied in this appointment process. If this criterion is used, only those who have indicated that they are members of the designated group specified in the merit criteria will be considered.

A top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

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.

For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail (including sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.

All job applications must be submitted through the www.canada.ca/government-jobs website. Do not fax, email or mail hard copy documents as these will not be accepted. To submit an application online, please click on the "apply now" button.

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

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.