Senior Communications Advisor

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Assessment accommodation

Work environment

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) helps the Government of Canada serve Canadians. With a strong focus on quality customer service, we provide innovative common services such as real estate and building management, purchasing, banking, pay and pensions, auditing and translation to other government departments, agencies and boards. By providing these centralized services to departments and agencies, we enable them to focus on what they do best: providing their programs and services to Canadians.

As an organization, PSPC strives to give all its employees opportunities to achieve organizational, professional and personal goals in a respectful and inclusive workplace, mobilized and supported by leadership at all levels. For more information on PSPC's People Management Philosophy and Our Commitments please see the following link: http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/apropos-about/pe-pc-eng.html.

Intent of the process

The intent of this appointment process is to establish a partially or fully assessed pool of qualified candidates. The results of this process may be used to staff similar or identical positions of various tenures and/or various linguistic requirements at Public Services and Procurement Canada and other government departments.

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

A degree from a recognized post-secondary institution

Note: Incumbents of IS positions who do not possess the formal education prescribed are deemed to meet the university graduation standard based on their education, training and/or experience. They must be accepted as having met the minimum education standard whenever a bachelor’s degree without any specialization is called for in a position classified as IS.

Degree equivalency

Significant** experience in providing communications advice and services to clients and senior management*.

Experience in developing and implementing communication strategies.

Significant** experience in drafting and publishing communications products, such as news releases, media lines, questions and answers, speeches, etc.

Experience in planning and executing internal and external communications activities or events, such as Ministerial visits, news conferences, roundtables, town halls, information sessions etc.

Experience in coordinating interviews with the media and providing information to journalists.

*Senior management is defined as Regional Managers and above.
**Significant means having performed a broad range of related activities, which could normally be acquired by performing the duties regularly (on a daily or weekly basis) over a period of approximately 1 year.

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

Experience working on multidisciplinary project teams.

Experience in supporting stakeholder engagement activities.

Experience in building and maintaining a network of contacts in the media and the public.

Organizational Needs:
In support of achieving a diversified workforce, consideration may be given to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal Peoples/Indigenous Peoples, Persons with a Disability, Visible Minorities, Women.

Operational Requirements:
Willing and able to work occasional overtime on short notice and be on standby as required.

Willing and able to work weekends.

Willing and able to travel.

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

Various language requirements

Information on language requirements

Competencies:
Uphold integrity and respect
Create vision and strategy
Collaborate with partners and stakeholders
Achieve results
Client service, level 1
Written communication
Oral communication

Conditions of employment

Security: Various (Reliability or Secret depending on the position being staffed)

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

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.

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.