Senior Environment Officer

Important messages

We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please use the Contact information below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Assessment accommodation

At the time of your application, you will be required to complete an on-line questionnaire. When answering the screening questions you must provide concrete and detailed examples to clearly demonstrate how you meet the qualification. We can’t make any assumptions about your experience. Simply saying you have the required qualifications or listing your current duties is not enough. Instead, provide concrete and detailed examples that clearly explain where, when, and how you gained the experience. We’ll only use your résumé as a secondary source of information. The breadth and depth of experience may be considered during screening, assessment and/or selection of candidates.

Intent of the process

A pool of qualified candidates may be established and may be used to staff future vacancies on an indeterminate, term, and/or acting basis.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

Contact information for 2 references.

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 university, with acceptable specialization in environmental studies, environmental management, environmental sciences or some other specialty directly related or relevant to the position.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
Extensive, recent experience managing or conducting environmental assessments, environmental audits, environmental protection plans or managing contaminated sites.

Experience in providing advice and recommendations to senior management.

Experience in leading or participating on multi-disciplinary teams or working groups.

Experience in developing and maintaining effective collaborations with stakeholders.

Experience in administering and implementing environment policy.

Experience developing requests for proposals and working with and managing contracts.

Experience working with, maintaining and reconciling invoices and budgets.

Experience in supervising, leading and mentoring staff.

"Extensive, recent experience" is defined as the depth and breadth of the experience normally associated with having performed a broad range of the various complex activities related to this position and which are normally acquired over a 3 year period or greater, within the past 5 years.

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

Asset Qualifications:
Honours degree and/or masters degree in environmental sciences.

Degree equivalency

Experience developing terms of reference and scopes of work.

Experience working in partnership with Aboriginal communities.

Experience managing federal government contracts and/or funding arrangements.

Experience in contaminated sites management or in environmental assessment under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.

Experience working with other federal departments, provincial, territorial or municipal governments, aboriginal groups, or industry to address complex, multi-stakeholder issues.

Experience in s. 35 Aboriginal consultation /the legal duty to consult.

Operational Requirements:
Ability to travel as required.

Ability to work overtime as required

Possession of a valid driver’s licence

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge:
Knowledge of the key federal legislative, regulations or policies for environmental management on reserve.
Knowledge of the social, economic, cultural or political characteristics, and issues of First Nations People and Communities.

Abilities:
Ability to develop plans, budgets, strategies, and projects.
Ability to manage plans, budgets, strategies, and projects.
Ability to analyze complex issues particularly with regard to environmental technical information, policy, and regulatory regimes and develop recommendations.
Ability to provide technical and analytical advice on environmental issues and concerns to senior management and stakeholders.
Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams or working groups.
Ability to follow directions effectively.
Ability to communicate effectively orally.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

Personal Suitability:
Effective interpersonal skills
Good Judgment
Dependability
Initiative
Flexibility

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

Organizational Needs:
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada is committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population we serve. In support of our strategy to achieve our employment equity goals, selection may be limited to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Women, Aboriginal Persons, Visible Minorities and Persons with Disabilities.

Conditions of employment

Secret security clearance

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

For this selection process, it is our intention to communicate with candidates VIA E-MAIL and/or GC Jobs website for screening and assessment purposes; this will include communication of screening results and invitations to written tests and interviews. To that end, candidates must include a valid e-mail address in their application. IT IS THE CANDIDATE'S RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT THIS ADDRESS IS FUNCTIONAL AND THAT IT ACCEPTS MESSAGES FROM UNKNOWN USERS (some e-mail systems block these types of e-mail). IT IS ALSO THE CANDIDATE'S RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE ACCURATE CONTACT INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AND UPDATED AS REQUIRED.

A variety of assessment tools may be used in the assessment of candidates, such as: *written test, practical test, situational exercise, *oral interview, simulation, presentation, role play, work samples, performance appraisals and/or *reference checks. Some assessment tools may be administered electronically, others, in-person. (*indicates those tools that will most likely be used in this process.)

Candidates are expected to make a reasonable effort to make themselves available for assessments as scheduled. Rescheduling will only be permitted for accommodation measures or for other exceptional/extenuating circumstances, to be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Candidates will be asked to provide proof of their education credentials and proof of citizenship at the assessment stage of this process. Failure to do so may result in your application not being considered further in the selection process.

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/indexe.stm

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.

On-line applications are strongly encouraged in order to take advantage of the many benefits of using the electronic recruitment system. Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact 1-800-645-5605. If you are unable to apply online, please contact the email address indicated in the "Contact information" section below PRIOR to the Closing Date. Please provide an explanation as to why you are not applying on-line for consideration.

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, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.