Program Officer

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Assessment accommodation

How to apply:

To apply for this position, you’ll need to provide:
• An up-to-date résumé highlighting your experience and accomplishments;
• Responses to our online pre-screening questions;
• Your submission to our creative competition.

When answering the pre-screening questions for the education and experience requirements listed under "essential qualifications" and "other qualifications," you must provide specific 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. It is up to you, the candidate, to clearly demonstrate how you have the required experience. Insufficient information or responses such as “See C.V.” will not be given further consideration.

Finally, as part of your application, we want to see your creativity and skills at work. To this end, along with your responses to screening questions and resume, we are looking or an additional submission. (See section Creative Competition) .

Information you must provide
As part of your application, you must:
• Include your résumé;
• Answer pre-screening questions;
• Submit your response to our creative competition.

Duties

The TD Summer Reading Club Program is looking for a multi-talented person to provide editorial and content support for our French language reading program!
You’ll be using your full tool kit in a position that is anything but routine and offers a lot of opportunity for growth and learning. You’ll be involved in the full yearly cycle of program development, from concept to completion. On any given day, you may be contributing ideas or designing programs and activities for children based on recent francophone publications, compiling book lists, recruiting juries for competitions, posting on social media, or uploading program materials to our website. In an environment that is bilingual, we’re looking for a quick and creative thinker to contribute to our program! Excellent planning, implementation, and organizational skills required!

Work environment

Are you technologically savvy, creative, and passionate about Francophone Canadian children’s literature? Want to empower Canadian children by helping them become better readers?

Intent of the process

The intent of this process is to staff one temporary position until March 31, 2020 with the possibility of extension.

A pool of qualified candidates may be established and may be used to staff identical or similar positions within Library and Archives Canada using various languages requirements and/or various tenures (assignment, acting, term or indeterminately)according to the positions being staffed.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

A response to a text question addressing the following:

• Creative Competition
  
  The activity will be assessing these criteria:
  • Creative thinking.
  • Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education
• Secondary school diploma

Degree equivalency

Experiences
• Experience in project coordination in the areas of literature, publication, program development or other related areas;
• Experience in developing guidelines, tools or procedures for one or more program requirements;
• Experience in providing support services to management or other staff;
• Experience in collaborating with internal or external stakeholders.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (CBC/CBC)

Information on language requirements

Knowledge
• Knowledge of the TD Summer Reading Club;
• Knowledge of project management principles.

Abilities
• Creative thinking;
• Ability to analyse problems and develop solutions;
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing;
• Ability to communicate effectively orally;
• Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work within tight deadlines.

Personal suitability
• Focus on quality and details;
• Effective interpersonal relationships;
• Judgement;
• Reliability;
• Flexibility.

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

Education
• Graduation with a degree from a post-secondary institution with an acceptable specialization in literature, education, or other subjects relevant to the position being staffed.

Degree equivalency

Experinces
• Experience in developing and presenting programs for children or youth;
• Experience in working in a public library, private library, or school library;
• Experience in using design programs such as Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop;
• Experience in coordinating an organization or group’s social media posts or websites.

Knowledge
• Knowledge of francophone Canadian children’s literature.

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

A written exam will be administered.

An interview may be administered.

Reference checks may be sought.

Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent; we will contact candidates when the screening process is completed.

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

If you do not respond to our communications, we will interpret this as your withdrawal from the process.

Please identify clearly your substantive group and level and your employment status on your resume and/or application form.

Please ensure that your Personal Record Identifier (PRI) is included in your application.

You must provide proof of your education credentials at a later date.

Candidates must meet the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position otherwise you will be eliminated from this process.

Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed.

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

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 we contact you about a job opportunity or testing, you should advise us as soon as possible of any accommodation measures that we need to take so that you can be assessed fairly. Information related to accommodations is confidential.

Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

We thank all those who apply.

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.