Marketing Advisor

Update: AMENDMENT (CLOSING DATE)

Important messages

Are you a passionate marketing professional interested in using your talent and experience to affect the health and safety of Canadians positively? Are you interested in working on important public health issues such as tobacco, opioids, healthy eating, vaccination or seasonal flu? If so, we want you!

Duties

You will develop innovative marketing strategies to help Canadians make informed decisions about their health and safety. You will do this by analyzing research, understanding audiences, and implementing marketing campaigns that reach these audiences with compelling messages.

You will work on innovative ways to reach Canadians, such as advertising, outreach, digital engagement, experiential events, and strategic partnerships with the private sector, not-for-profit associations, media, and other levels of government to extend the reach of your campaign.

Finally, you will analyze results to measure campaign effectiveness and identify opportunities to improve.

Does this sound like a dream job to you? We thought so. Apply now.

Work environment

Health Canada is a federal government department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health.

The Marketing team at Health Canada is a dynamic and creative group of people who are passionate about promoting health, raising awareness about important health issues and helping Canadians ultimately make healthier and safer choices for themselves and their families.

We are located at Tunney’s Pasture near two of Ottawa’s trendiest neighbourhoods, Wellington Village and Westboro. We also have marketing opportunities on Colonnade Road in Nepean. Ottawa is a bilingual city, ideal for food and culture enthusiasts, those who enjoy the outdoors year-round, and those looking to raise a family.

Intent of the process

This selection process will be used to establish pools of qualified candidates to fill a variety of current and future marketing positions at the IS-04 group and level with various tenures and various language requirements.

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)

A bachelor’s degree in marketing, commerce or communications from a recognized university or an acceptable combination of marketing training and/or experience*

*Candidates who do not possess a bachelor’s degree in marketing, commerce or communications from a recognized university can meet the education requirement through an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience. In these cases, you must clearly indicate relevant education and training by listing completed marketing courses and/or marketing-related experience.

Degree equivalency

• Experience developing and executing one or more marketing campaigns.
• Experience evaluating marketing projects and conducting research to inform a marketing strategy.
• Experience providing advice and making recommendations to clients or supervisors.
• Experience working with contractors and suppliers.

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

• Experience working collaboratively with a partner organization such as the federal government, provincial/territorial or municipal counterpart, non-governmental organization or private-sector partner.
• Experience with managing project budgets, developing forecasts and tracking project spending.

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

Various language requirements
English Essential and Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB language requirements

Information on language requirements

• Knowledge of marketing and social marketing principles.

• Ability to communicate effectively orally.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
• Ability to develop marketing plans.
• Ability to provide marketing recommendations.
• Ability to establish priorities and meet deadlines.

• Initiative
• Client-service oriented
• Attention to details
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Respect of diversity

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

• Knowledge of the Government of Canada’s Communication Policy.

• Willingness and ability to travel on occasion.
• Willingness to occasionally work overtime on short notice.

Conditions of employment

• Enhanced Reliability or Secret based on the position being staffed.

Other information

A written exam will be administered.

An interview will be administered.

Reference checks will be sought.

Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed. Meeting one or many of the asset qualifications may be a deciding factor in appointing a particular candidate amongst the qualified candidates. Please note that some or all of the asset qualifications could be used at the screening phase.

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.

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 provide their proof of education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcripts (original documents only) at a later time in the process.

We will only accept on-line applications received via the jobs.gc.ca site. Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact 1-800-645-5605.

All information pertaining to the process will be sent by email. It is therefore your responsibility to verify your email account for new communication regarding this selection process on a regular basis.

If your e-mail address changes during this process, it is your responsibility to notify the process board.

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.