Looking for Communication Advisors

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You are seeking a dynamic career in communications? Communication strategies have no secrets for you?

Canada Economic Development for Quebec regions and various federal organizations are looking for candidates to staff Communications advisor positions.

Join us and take up challenges that are in line with your skills!

HOW TO APPLY?

1) Candidates must apply online through the Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS), and answer screening questions regarding education and essential and asset experience qualifications. When answering these questions, you must provide concrete examples demonstrating how you meet each qualification and the relevant dates when the experience was acquired. Your answers to the screening questions may be used to assess your ability to communicate effectively in writing.

2) Your job application must also include a copy of your resumé. The resumé may be used as a secondary source to validate the education and experience outlined in your answers to the screening questions.

Duties

Communications Advisors who work for the Government of Canada are required to provide management with strategic advice and recommendations on communication approaches, activities and tools. Therefore, they may be responsible for developing and implementing communication strategies, often to promote a department’s services and activities, and sometimes to support the handling of an issue that could affect a department or the clients it serves.

The work very often involves developing communication products (news releases, questions and answers, tweets, Web content, key messages, etc.) and coordinating and organizing special activities or media events. In some cases, the tasks involved may be slightly more specialized and specific to a given field, such as the Web, production of multimedia products or media relations.

Intent of the process

This is an anticipatory and a common appointment process between several federal organizations. A pool of candidates could be created to staff identical or similar positions for a temporary and/or a permanent duration within various federal organizations.

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)

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:

Degree* from a recognized post-secondary institution or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

*The term “degree” refers to a baccalaureate as established by educational authorities.

IF YOU HAVE FOREIGN CREDENTIALS, please follow the link below for information on how to obtain a degree equivalency. You must obtain an equivalency, at your own expense, in order to be considered for an appointment.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:

• Significant* experience in providing a group or a management team in an organization with communication advice and services.

• Recent and significant* experience in preparing and revising communication products.

*Recent and significant: About three or more years of experience within the last five years.

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

Various language requirements
The positions to be staffed may require the use of French only or various levels of bilingualism.

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE:

Knowledge of communication methods and practices, including social media.

COMPETENCIES:

• Client focus
• Initiative
• Judgment
• Effective interpersonal relationships

ABILITIES:

• Ability to analyze issues in order to provide clients with strategic communication advice.
• Ability to develop communication plans.
• Ability to manage effectively multiple projects while meeting deadlines.
• 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)

ASSETS (depending on the position to be staffed, the following experiences may distinguish you from other candidates):

• Experience in organizing and coordinating media events.

• Experience in using social media in a professional setting.

• Experience in developing content or campaigns for the Web.

• Experience in media relations.

• Experience in internal communications.

• Experience in video production.

• Experience in graphic design.

• Experience in drafting popular science articles.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:

Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity
groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Willingness and ability to work overtime on occasion.
• Willingness and ability to travel on occasion.

Other information

Our intention is to communicate with candidates through emails. Candidates participating must include in their application a valid email address and make sure that this address is functional at all times and that their system accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block the receipt of these types of email).

An exam, an interview and/or a reference check could be held.

Please note that within the context of this selection process, travel costs or travel expenses will not be reimbursed.

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.