Recruitment Team Leader

Important messages

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About IRCC
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Over 200 000 people immigrate to annually Canada in pursuit of work, study or opportunity for a new life. At Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), our employees often hold the responsibility of changing the course of someone’s life – from developing immigration policies, to making decisions reuniting international families. At IRCC, our mandate is to build Canada’s future.

To make that happen, we need a competent, diverse and purpose-driven workforce. That is why we are looking for dynamic Recruitment Team Leaders to target, recruit and hire the right people into the right positions, and propel our impact in changing people’s lives and building a better Canada.

Duties

This process will be used to staff the following positions:
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Team Leader, EX Resourcing – 2 vacant positions :
Within Executive Resourcing you will lead a talented team of innovative HR Advisors and HR Assistants who provide specialized, tailored, client-centric service to our executive cadre. Team outputs allow for creativity, while maintaining a high degree of quality and detail.
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Team Leader, Non-EX Resourcing – 1 vacant position and 2 anticipatory :
You will lead a competent, motivated and professional team of HR advisors and HR assistants (approx 7-10 employees) who is responsible for providing value-added, client-centric resourcing services to a portfolio of IRCC branches (approx 1,000 positions).
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Work environment

A happy and healthy workplace culture is what matters most to us. We are proud to say that:
👍 Purpose is our driver. Trust, respect and humility is our imperative.
👍 All of our Team Leader positions, regardless of mandate, operate collaboratively with one another, offering multiple resources for support and success.
👍 We are equipped with modern tools such as laptops, cellphones and skype for business to do our work.
👍 We offer flexible work arrangements – Given restrictions due to COVID-19, all our employees are currently working from home. In normal times, most of our employees work two days a week from home and some are on compressed work weeks.
👍 Travel opportunities may be possible to meet staff & clients located in Canada once COVID-19 travel restrictions will be lifted.
👍 We strongly believe in professional development, whether through the Canada School of Public Service, our internal IRCC Learning Academy, external learning providers, acting opportunities at higher levels, conferences or second language maintenance through a variety of programs, the options to grow are endless.

Intent of the process

The current need is to staff several team leader positions in the Integrated Service Delivery Division of the Human Resources Branch with a linguistic profile of bilingual imperative CBC/CBC. These positions are located in Etobicoke (Ontario), Ottawa (Ontario), Montréal (Québec) and Vancouver (British-Columbia). This process may be used to establish a pool of candidates that may be used to staff similar positions at an identical or equivalent group and level with various official language proficiencies (Bilingual Imperative CBC/CBC and Bilingual Non-Imperative CBC/CBC), various security profiles, various tenures, various locations and various staffing mechanisms at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

Positions to be filled: 3

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

EDUCATION
ED1. Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in human resources management, labour or industrial relations, psychology, public or business administration, organizational development, education sciences, social sciences, sociology, or in any other field relevant to the work to be performed.

Notes:
1. Indeterminate incumbents of PE positions and of positions in the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and in Indian Oil and Gas Canada that are equivalent to PE positions on October 1, 1999, who do not possess the education level prescribed above, are deemed to meet the minimum education standard based on their education, training and/or experience.

2. The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and must have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE

EXP1. Significant* experience in delivering operational resourcing services (e.g. providing strategic staffing advice on complex cases**, staffing options and strategies to management, developing job advertisement material and evaluation strategies and tools, leading selection committees, conducting reference checks, providing feedback to participants, conducting outreach activities and sending letters of offer).

EXP2. Experience influencing colleagues and clients to achieve results.

*Significant is defined as experience that, due to its scope, is equivalent to experience typically acquired over a period of at least three (3) years.
**Complex is defined as the diversity of cases handled and the degree of independence shown. It refers to the variety of cases on different topics that involve, for example, in-depth research, a variety of stakeholders and a combination of Human Resources disciplines.

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

ASSET EXPERIENCE

AEXP1. Experience in writing briefing notes and reports for senior management.
AEXP2. Experience delivering operational resourcing services for a federal government organization under the Public Service Employment Act.
AEXP3. Experience in leading major projects. Major refers to the scope, complexity, impacts, risks and multidisciplinary nature of the project.
AEXP4. Experience using a data-driven approach to inform on talent acquisition, staffing or on recruitment and communication strategies
AEXP5. Experience using recruitment software (eg. Taleo, SuccessFactors, Vidcruiter).
AEXP6. Experience developing and delivering presentations.
AEXP7. Experience managing employees.

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

Various language requirements
Bilingual Imperative CBC/CBC
Bilingual Non-Imperative CBC/CBC*

*Should there be no qualified candidates that meet the bilingual imperative CBC/CBC linguistic profile, we may consider proceeding with non-imperative staffing.

Information on language requirements

Second Language Writing Skills Self-Assessment
In order to help you decide if you should apply to a bilingual position, an optional self-assessment of your writing skills in your second official language is available for you to take before completing your application.

For more information, please consult:
Unsupervised Internet Test of Second Language Writing Skills

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
BC1. Values and Ethics
BC2. Strategic Outlook***
BC3. Communications***(Written will be evaluated through the screening question)
BC4. Team Leadership

***Defined as per the Treasury Board of Canada Competency Dictionary (https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/gui/cmpe.pdf)

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

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
OR1. Ability and willingness to work overtime as required.
OR2. Ability and willingness to travel as required.

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 THAT ONLY APPLICATIONS RECEIVED DIRECTLY VIA JOBS.GC.CA WILL BE ACCEPTED***

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.

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

Candidates must meet all the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position.Please note that candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications for the screening process.

In order to have your application considered, all screening questions must be answered. When responding to the screening questions, please note it is not sufficient to simply state that the qualification is "met" or to provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. You must provide concrete examples, which clearly illustrate how you meet each qualification including where and how you obtained the experience.
Please provide the following MANDATORY information:
1 - Name of the department or organization where the experience was acquired;
2 - Title of the position occupied and the period(s) in which you performed the functions (MM-YYYY to MM-YYYY);
3 - Specific details of tasks or projects demonstrating how the experience was acquired and concrete examples (in 400 words or less).

You may be assessed using a variety of assessment tools, such as, but not limited to: standardized tests, written exams, interviews, simulation exercises, reference checks, self-assessments, candidate achievement record, etc.

All communication relating to this process, including email correspondence, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

You must provide proof of your education credentials. You will be advised to provide the documents later in the process. If you were educated outside of Canada, you must have your certificates and/or diplomas assessed against Canadian education standards. For more information please click on “Degree Equivalency” in the Education section above.

For this selection process, our intention is to communicate regularly with candidates by e-mail. Candidates who apply to this selection process must provide a valid e-mail address and ensure this address is functional and accessible at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.
It is to be noted that it is your responsibility to ensure that, during the life of this selection process, you communicate any changes related to your telephone number or e-mail address to the Human Resources Assistant (Amanda Abboud at ). Failure to do so might exclude you from the selection process.

It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify the selection board of any pre-approved leave throughout the duration of the process in order to facilitate scheduling. Such notification should take place prior to the leave. Should a candidate be unavailable on the scheduled testing or interview date(s) due to illness, he/she must advise the board and a medical certificate may be required.

Candidates will be required to pay for their own travel expenses.

We sincerely thank all applicants for their time and consideration in choosing IRCC as a prospective employer!

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.