Portfolio Analyst

Update: Salary: under revision

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Assessment accommodation

APPLICATION REQUIRMENTS: Candidates MUST provide a cover letter and resume. You must provide concrete and detailed examples to clearly demonstrate how you meet the education and experience requirements listed under the following headers: "In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)" and "If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)". The screening board cannot make any assumptions about your experience. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current duties. One effective approach would be to use the wording of each experience criterion as a heading and then write one or two paragraphs demonstrating that you have the required experience and ensure that clear and accurate details are provided. The resume may be a secondary source to confirm the experience described in the screening questions. APPLICATIONS THAT DO NOT CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CANDIDATE MEETS THE SCREENING CRITERIA WILL NOT BE GIVEN FURTHER CONSIDERATION.

Duties

Are you looking for a fun and exciting challenge? Are you interested in making a difference and contributing your expertise to support the Crown’s aggressive real estate portfolio strategy including analyzing options to redevelop several Crown buildings? If you said yes to all of the above, come and join our team!

PUBLIC SERVICES AND PROCUREMENT CANADA (PSPC)
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), formerly Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) manages one of the largest and most diverse portfolios of real estate in the country. Real Property Branch is the Government of Canada’s real property centre of expertise. Our multi-disciplinary, client-focused team works from a whole-of-government approach to address client needs. Our expertise ranges from project leadership and appraisals to leasing and environmental services. We are seeking several real estate professionals with a specialization in real estate economics to join our team and contribute to the management of Canadian assets.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Portfolio Management takes the role of the owner in the management of the Pacific Region Portfolio of Assets. We oversee the budget for the portfolio, develop investment strategies for the various communities we have a presence in, the various assets we own and lease and strategies to meet the accommodation needs of our client departments. We review the performance of our assets and ensure best value to the Crown in all of our investment decisions. We interact closely with all of the business lines identified in the Real Property Branch.

Intent of the process

A pool of qualified candidates may be established through this process to staff identical or similar positions within the Department of Public Services and Procurement Canada in the Pacific Region with various tenures (such as permanent, specified period or casual). The positions are located in Vancouver.

Should the selected candidate already be a public servant, the pool could also be used for acting appointments.

Positions to be filled: 2

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

A covering letter in 9,999 words (maximum)

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 post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in economics, sociology or statistics (please list the courses, level, and post-secondary institution, e.g. ECON101, SFU)

NOTE: Candidates must always have a degree. The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and may have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization. The specialization may also be obtained through an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
Significant* and recent** experience in conducting investment or cost benefit analysis based on discounted cash flows in relations to real property.
Significant* and recent** experience in developing investment strategies on real property
Significant* and recent** experience in making recommendations in relations to commercial real property to management and/or stakeholders
Experience in maintaining collaborative relationships with key stakeholders

*Significant will be evaluated in regard to the amount, complexity, and diversity of work handled. Clear and specific examples should be provided by candidates in their application.
**Recent is defined as having performed the duties continuously within the past two (2) years

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:
Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with an acceptable specialization in real estate, business, commerce, economics or finance.

Degree equivalency

OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATION:
A valid professional designation of either the Accredited Appraiser Canadian Institute (AACI) designation - professional appraiser from the Appraisal Institute of Canada or the Évaluateur Agréé (EA) designation from the Order of Chartered Appraisers of Quebec.

EXPERIENCE:
Experience in estimating the market value of commercial real estate
Recent experience in working with computerized discounted cash flow programs
Experience in mentoring and training of staff
Significant* experience in developing a strategy to manage a portfolio of real property assets
Experience in estimating the market rent of office and industrial space.
Experience in defending opinion of property value.
Experience in writing detailed appraisal or assessment reports.

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE:
Knowledge of real property investment analysis
Knowledge of real property portfolio planning
Knowledge of real property portfolio management
Knowledge of recent commercial real property trends

COMPETENCIES:
Thinking things through
Excellence through results
Engagement
Values and Ethics
Client Services – Level 1

ABILITIES:
Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.

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

ASSET QUALIFICATION - KNOWLEDGE:
Knowledge of project management principles

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
• Placement of PSPC employees affected by work force adjustment.
• Placement of employees subject to current or future reorganization.
• Public Services and Procurement Canada is committed to establishing and maintaining a representative workforce. This organizational need may be identified as part of the appointment decision. In such cases, qualified candidates who self-declare as members of a visible minority group, Aboriginal Peoples, persons with disabilities or women (in non-traditional occupations) would be considered.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Willingness and ability to work overtime if required.
• Willingness and ability to travel if required.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance - This factor is not used at the screening stage. The department is responsible for the security clearance process.

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

ALL JOB APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED USING THE PUBLIC SERVICE RESOURCING SYSTEM (PSRS) VIA WWW.CANADA.CA. NO APPLICATION WILL BE ACCEPTED BY EMAIL OR MAIL. If you have any health or physical limitations preventing you from applying on-line, you are asked to contact or 1-800-645-5605.

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and to make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidate’s responsibility to provide any changes to their personal information to the contact indicated on this job advertisement.

Reference checks will be sought.

An interview will be administered.

Top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

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

If you were educated outside of Canada, you must have your certificates and/or diplomas assessed against Canadian education standards. This will enable you to provide proof of Canadian equivalency when applying for a job in the public service. The public service will accept any Foreign Educational Credentials as long as they are deemed comparable to Canadian standards, through a recognized credential assessment service. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at https://www.cicic.ca/2/home.canada.

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.

A person may be appointed to the position even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications. However meeting these criteria is desirable and may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. One, some or all of the asset qualifications could be used at any stage of the staffing process depending on the volume of candidates.

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.