Human Resources Advisor

Work environment

Have you worked as a Human Resources advisor in recruitment, staffing, organizational design or classification for several years and you are now looking to take on a strategic Staffing or Classification Advisor role in the federal government?

Environment and Climate Change Canada is offering you the opportunity to join an organization of professionals, ranked as one of Canada’s top employers. A number of challenges and development opportunities await you—not to mention numerous benefits and competitive work/family balance arrangements (such as telework and compressed work week). We provide opportunities to collaborate, learn and grow within our virtual team.

You will be in charge of exciting assignments and have the opportunity to help the organization grow through the advice and support that you provide to managers. More specifically, you will:

• guide and advise managers on sound human resources management practices;
• with the support of an administrative assistant, coordinate all staffing activities for your client;
• carry out strategic projects; and
• work with passionate individuals.

You will be challenged in this fast-paced environment!

Intent of the process

The intent of this process is to staff indeterminate bilingual imperative CBC/CBC or BBB/BBB positions. A pool of qualified candidates may be established and used to staff similar bilingual positions across Canada within Environment and Climate Change Canada with various tenures (Term, Assignment, Secondment, Acting, Indeterminate, Deployment), which may vary according to the position being staffed.

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 human resources management, labour or industrial relations, psychology, public or business administration, organizational development, education sciences, social sciences, sociology, or in any other field relevant to the work to be performed.

Degree equivalency

Experience:

EX1 Recent and significant* experience in providing either recruitment/staffing services OR classification/organizational design services.
*recent and significant means approximately 3 years in the last 5 years.

EX2 Experience working in Human Resources providing strategic advice to clients in either staffing OR classification/organizational design.

EX3 Experience in providing service either in staffing OR organizational design / classification for a high volume of client requests.

Knowledge:

K1 Knowledge of current and emerging issues and trends in Human Resources.

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience working in Human Resources in the public sector (at any level - municipal, provincial, federal).

Experience working in a virtual environment.

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

Various language requirements
Bilingual imperative 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

Competencies:

Service Orientation
Initiative and being action-oriented
Adaptability
Integrity
Problem Analysis and Judgment
Influence Skills
Communication Skills
Interpersonal Relations

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Other information

You must complete the screening questions providing appropriate examples that will illustrate how you meet the qualifications. The competency to communicate effectively in writing may be assessed by your answers provided in the screening questions.

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.

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.

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.