Assistant, Translation and Editing Services

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

Work environment

The Communications and Engagement Sector (CE) is responsible for internal and external communications services and programs, media relations, products and services. The Sector also provides leadership across the Service for the implementation of stakeholder and community relations, citizen engagement, victim services and restorative justice. The CE Sector is also responsible for parliamentary relations, ministerial services, correspondence, briefing requirements and linguistic services. The Translation and Editing Services Unit manages translation, editing and terminology services for CSC in addition to delivering the language quality control program for departmental national policy documents.

Intent of the process

The immediate intent of this Job Opportunity Advertisement is to staff indeterminately, applicants should be aware that a pool of qualified candidates will be established and may be used to staff similar positions at this group and level.

Positions to be filled: 2

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

EEDU1 - Successful completion of secondary school education or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

EEX1 - Experience in the coordination and monitoring of service requests for a large number of clients.
EEX2 - Experience in dealing with a large number of clients and service providers.
EEX3 - Experience in the provision of general administrative services (e.g., data entry, preparation of statistical reports, etc.).
EEX4 - Experience in maintaining electronic/paper filing and follow-up systems.

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

AEX1 - Experience working as a translation coordinator in a translation service environment.
AEX2 - Experience working in the federal government.
AEX3 - Experience working at the Correctional Service of Canada.
AEX4 - Experience in data entry, i.e. financial data entry.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (CBB/CBB)

Information on language requirements

ABILITIES
EA1 - Ability to negotiate with and provide assistance to clients.
EA2 - Ability to establish priorities and to work in a demanding and fast-paced environment with continuous changing and conflicting priorities.
EA3 - Ability to communicate effectively orally.
EA4 - Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

PERSONAL SUITABILITY
PS1 - Client service oriented
PS2 - Effective interpersonal relationships
PS3 - Judgment
PS4 - Reliability
PS5 - Discretion

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

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The information you will be providing in this application must be true and may be subject to verification.

Please note that you may be assessed with various assessment method, such as but not limited to: written exams, interviews, reference checks, past and recent performance appraisals, self-assessment, etc.

A random selection, a top-down approach and/or the use of an asset may be used at any time in the selection process to manage the number of applications.

For this selection process, we may find that email is the most efficient way to communicate with you. Candidates who apply to selection processes should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidates' responsibility to inform us of a change of contact information during the course of this selection process and to regularly verify your incoming emails.

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.