Regional Program Development Team Lead - ANTICIPATORY

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

No cover letter is required; candidates must ANSWER THE SCREENING QUESTIONS provided by clearly demonstrating how they meet each of the Essential and Asset qualifications relative to education and experience.

Please note when submitting an application to this selection process, you will be prompted to answer screening questions concerning essential education and experience qualifications and other (essential and non-essential) qualifications. It is NOT sufficient to only state that the qualifications are met or to provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Rather, you must clearly identify WHEN and WHERE the qualification was attained and substantiate HOW you meet the qualification by using concrete examples. Information you provide should be supported by your resume. Failure to provide the above information in the format required may result in your application being rejected from the process. Candidates will not be solicited for incomplete or possible missing information nor will it be accepted after the closing date.

INSTRUCTIONS

When recording your examples be sure that:

• Provide concrete, specific examples of actions that speak directly to the experience sought.
• Choose examples with sufficient complexity, impact and degree of difficulty that will allow you to illustrate to what extent and depth you have shown the behaviours expected for each qualification.
• Focus on what you did. In referring to an experience achieved in the context of a team, set your role apart from the role(s) of others.
• Please describe the achievements in the past tense. This will help to ensure that you
are providing concrete examples, rather than making general statements (e.g. instead of saying “I work well within a team….” you can say “I worked well with a team when….”).
• Use action verbs when describing your experience i.e. lead, managed, organized, planned, prepared, informed, determined, etc.
• Provide all examples in sentence format.
• Each example must include when the example took place, background of each situation, what you did, how you did it, what your role was in the situation, and what was the outcome.

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.

Intent of the process

This process will be used to establish a pool of qualified candidates.

It may also be used to staff similar positions with various tenures (Deployment, Assignment, Secondment, Acting, Term or Indeterminate) within Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) in different locations with various language profiles and requirements (bilingual imperative BBB/BBB or CBC/CBC or English Essential) and various security requirements (reliability or secret).

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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 an acceptable specialization in a field relevant to the work to be performed (such as lands, economics, law, business administration, commerce, public administration, urban or rural planning, Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology) OR an acceptable combination of education, training and experience defined as a secondary school diploma and at least 10 years’ experience in a field relevant to Indigenous Services Canada.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE

• Experience in providing advice and recommendations to senior management on program or policy issues.

• Experience engaging with various internal or external stakeholders.

• Experience in interpreting and applying legislation, regulations or policy.

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

ABILITIES

• Ability to communicate orally.
• Ability to communicate in writing.
• Ability to manage a program or project.

PERSONAL SUITABILITY

• Working effectively with others.
• Showing initiative and being action-oriented.
• Adaptability.
• Self-confidence.
• Reliability.
• Judgement.
• Reasoning.

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

Education

• Graduation with a degree from a recognized university with an acceptable specialization in a field relevant to the work to be performed (such as lands, economics, law, business administration, commerce, public administration, urban or rural planning, Indigenous studies, anthropology, sociology).

• Post-secondary education or training in a field related to Earth Sciences.

• Post-secondary education or training in project management.

Degree equivalency

Experience

• Experience working in land management.

• Experience in land use planning.

• Experience leading a team.

• Experience in project management.

• Experience managing First Nation reserve lands.

• Experience working directly with Indigenous communities or individuals and providing services.

• Experience in the administration, negotiation, monitoring or compliance of real property dispositions.

CURRENT AND/OR FUTURE ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
( Not essential, but preference may be given to candidates who possess the organizational needs)

• Indigenous Services 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 Disability.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• The Program Manager will be expected to travel within Manitoba and Canada, to remote locations on small planes, watercraft or vehicle.
• The Program Manager will be expected to work overtime on occasion as required.
• Maintain a valid driver’s license.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status 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

PLEASE NOTE:

• You will be required to complete an online questionnaire when you apply. You must respond to all statements in all categories in order to proceed to the next steps. You must indicate "NO" if you do not have experience in performing a task related to a specific field.

• All communication and correspondence related to this process‎ may be used as part of the assessment

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

• For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by EMAIL for screening/assessment purposes (including issuing screening results, and sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Applicants MUST include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.

• 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.)

• The unsupervised PSEE UIT 370 internet test results are not transferable from one process to another. Therefore, in order to apply to this process, you have to write the PSEE 370 again.

• Will I receive my test score? Scores are provided only for supervised tests. Unsupervised tests are more vulnerable to security breaches when test scores are provided to test takers. Consequently, pursuant to Section 22 of The Access to Information Act, UIT test scores are not provided because to do so would threaten the validity and continued use of the test.

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

• Cost of travel and expenses will not be reimbursed for participating in this selection process.

• Candidates invited to the assessment stage will be required to provide ORIGINAL proof of their education credentials, i.e., their degree or official transcript. Failure to do so may result in you not being considered further in the selection process.

• All job applications must be submitted through the Public Service Resourcing System. Following are some of the benefits associated with applying on-line:
- Applicants can create a profile and a resume that can be used when applying for other processes without having to recreate a new application each time.
- Applicants can modify their application/resume at any time BEFORE the closing date indicated on the job advertisement.
- Applicants can verify the status of their applications, at any time.
- Applicants can be notified electronically of tests or interviews and results.
- For some jobs, applicants will find important information, namely the job questionnaire and a complete statement of merit criteria that are only available when applying on-line.

• To submit an application on-line, please select the button "Apply Online" below.

• Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact 1-800-645-5605.

• Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the asset qualifications, operational requirements, and organizational needs may be applied at the time of staffing. Candidates may be contacted and assessed against these criteria at any time during this process.

• Candidate may be selected based on the depth and breadth of their experience.

• 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.