IS-05 - 3 STREAMS - COMMUNICATIONS

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Assessment accommodation

STREAM 1: Senior Strategic Communications Advisor
STREAM 2: Strategic Communications Advisor
STREAM 3: Senior Outreach Officer (anticipatory)

When submitting your application, you MUST ANSWER questions regarding the education and experience requirements (both essential and asset qualifications). You must CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE how you meet each of these requirements by answering the online questions. It is not sufficient to only state that the qualifications are met or to only provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Rather you must clearly demonstrate WHEN (month-year to month-year), WHERE and HOW you acquired each qualification by giving CONCRETE EXAMPLES. Information provided in your answers related to your education and experience must be supported in your resume. Failure to provide the above information in the format required may result in your application being rejected from the process. The information you provide in the questionnaire must be true.

Intent of the process

This is a joint process with Elections Canada AND the Commissioner of Canada Elections. The immediate intent of this process is to staff:

STREAM 1: One (1) Senior Strategic Communications Advisor, within the Commissioner of Canada Elections, with bilingual imperative CCC/CCC linguistic profile, for a three (3) year term.

STREAM 2: One (1) Strategic Communications Advisor within Elections Canada, with bilingual imperative CCC/CCC linguistic profile, for a three (3) year term .

STREAM 3: To create a pool of various BILINGUAL profiles for the Senior Outreach Officer within Elections Canada with various tenures.

In addition, a pool of fully and partially qualified candidates for ALL STREAMS may be established to staff similar positions within Elections Canada AND the Commissioner of Canada Elections with various BILINGUAL profiles or various tenures (permanent and temporary) according to the position to be staffed.

Positions to be filled: 2

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (CCC/CCC)
various BILINGUAL profiles
STREAMS 1 and 2: Bilingual imperative, CCC/CCC
STREAM 3: various BILINGUAL linguistic profiles

Information on language requirements

EDUCATION
A degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with specialization in communications, political science, journalism, public relations or other specialty relevant to the position OR an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

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.

For entry as an IS, an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience may serve as an alternative to university graduation at the manager’s discretion.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE (ALL STREAMS)
*Significant experience in developing and writing communications products such as promotional content, outreach products, speaking notes, briefing material, backgrounders, media lines, news releases, web or social media content.

**Recent experience in developing and implementing communications strategies, approaches or plans for various audiences.

Experience in working with internal and external stakeholders to develop and implement
communications plans and products.

STREAM 1: Experience acting as a spokesperson.

STREAM 3: *Significant and **recent experience in organizing and delivering events such as multi-party stakeholder consultation meetings or other external communications events with multiple stakeholders.

Significant experience is defined as the depth and breadth and complexity of responsibilities normally associated with having performed a broad range of related activities in the field of communications over a period three (3) years.
**Recent experience is defined as experience acquired within the last four (4) years.

ABILITIES (ALL STREAMS)
Ability to communicate effectively verbally
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Ability to provide advice to *senior management on a variety of **complex issues.
Ability to develop high quality communication strategies, plans and/or products.

*Senior management is defined as persons occupying an executive-level position. This includes persons occupying EX-level positions in the Government of Canada or Director, Senior/Executive Director, Vice President, President, etc. positions in the private or not-for-profit sectors.
** Complex issues are defined as having one or more of the following characteristics: involving horizontal collaboration; involving multiple players; sensitive in nature; with competing interests; requiring considerations or management of risk.

KEY COMPETENCIES (ALL STREAMS)
Demonstrating integrity and respect
Thinking things through
Working effectively with others
Showing initiative and being action -oriented

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

ASSET EXPERIENCE
Experience responding to media inquiries.
Experience making presentations or facilitating discussions with various stakeholders.
Experience in preparing procurement or contracting documents, and in managing contracts.
Experience working with stakeholder audiences that face barriers to accessing services.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
Elections Canada and the Commissioner of Canada Elections are committed to hiring and promoting a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population we serve. In order to achieve this representative workforce, preference may be given to candidates who, at the time of application, indicate that they are belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups (self-declaration): Indigenous peoples, Women, Visible Minorities and Persons with Disabilities.

Conditions of employment

Secret security clearance - STREAM 1
STREAMS 2 and 3: Reliability Status security clearance

Availability and willingness to work overtime, often on short notice.

Consent to observe strict political impartiality and neutrality for the duration of employment.

A working internet connection at home is required to perform the duties of the position.

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

A test may be administered.

An interview may be administered.

Reference checks may be sought.

You must provide proof of your education credentials.

Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed.

Please note that asset qualifications may be used at the screening stage or any stage during the process.

Please identify clearly your substantive group and level and your employment status on your résumé and/or application form (if applicable).

Please ensure that your Personal Record Identifier (PRI) is included in your application (if applicable).

Each candidate is entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

PLEASE NOTE: For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail for screening/assessment purposes (including issuing screening results, and sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Applicants who apply to this selection process 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.

Due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation, the selected candidates will work remotely from their residence location until further notice. When the decision is made for employees to return to the workplace, the successful candidates may be expected to work at the traditional workplace (Elections Canada: 30 Victoria Street, Gatineau and the Commissioner of Canada Elections: 22 Eddy Street in Gatineau) with the possible combination of both remote and in-person work.

The client organization will accept applications on-line only.

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.