Senior Contracting Officer (Operations, Center of Expertise)

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Work environment

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is looking for dynamic candidates to join its procurement team. As part of the operations team, as a Senior Contracting Officer you will have the opportunity to award contracts for the acquisition of goods, services and construction for both DFO and the Canadian Coast Guard. You will collaborate with the various clients on a regular basis to anticipate and analyze their requirements, develop strategies and options to meet objectives and provide advice on very interesting projects.

For candidates within the Centre of Expertise team, you will have the exciting opportunity to perform tasks such as reviewing and implementing procurement policy documents, preparing procurement reports, providing procurement training, resolving contracting issues, etc.

In addition, DFO offers a working environment where work life flexibility is really important. Depending on personal situations, we offer the opportunity to work both from the office and from home.

Intent of the process

The immediate need is to staff 1 position at Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB level, on an indeterminate basis in Fredericton, NB.

The intent of this advertisement is to also create an inventory of partially or fully assessed professionals that may be used in the future to staff similar positions within Fisheries and Oceans Canada with various tenures, various bilingual linguistic profiles, various operational requirements and/or various conditions of employment.

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
Successful completion of secondary school or an acceptable combination of education, training and experience.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE
Recent and significant* experience in issuing competitive procurement processes for complex** goods, services or construction.
Recent and significant* experience in assisting clients in developing solicitation documents including statements of work and evaluation criteria.
Recent and significant* experience developing contractual documents including requests for proposals for complex** procurements.
Recent and significant* experience in providing advice and guidance to clients on the procedures and policies related to procurement of goods, services or construction.

* Recent and significant experience is defined as the depth and breadth of your experience normally acquired with the performance of those duties for a cumulative period of 24 months within the last five (5) years.

** Complex is defined as having experience in at least four (4) of the following elements:
- Involving multi-million dollar services or construction projects;
- Involving consultations with multiple stakeholders groups;
- Involving multi-year or multi-phased projects;
- Involving multiple trade agreements;
- Involving high profile or high risk projects (e.g. scope, security, emergency, departmental priorities, etc.);
- Involving the negotiation of price or non-standard terms and conditions;
- Involving the resolution of bid evaluation issues;
- Involving the resolution of contracts management issues;
- Involving consultations with client management (i.e. Manager level (EX minus 1 and above).

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.
Graduation with a diploma from a recognized technical institute or college in a domain relevant to the position.
Certification from a program related to procurement

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE
Two or more years Public Sector procurement experience at the intermediate or senior level.

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

Various language requirements
Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB or Bilingual Imperative CBC/CBC.

Information on language requirements

If your application is screened in, you will be invited to demonstrate the following competencies via an evaluation process:

KNOWLEDGE:
Contracting and Procurement Knowledge.

ABILITIES
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Ability to communicate effectively orally.
Ability to work under pressure.

PERSONNAL SUITABILITY
Judgment
Client Service Orientation
Working in a team environment

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

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is committed to achieving a diversified workforce and to meeting our employment equity goals. Selection may be limited to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal peoples, Persons with a Disability, Visible Minorities and Women

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Willingness and ability to travel, as required.
Willingness and ability to work overtime, as required.

Conditions of employment

Security clearance (Secret or Reliability) based on the individual 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

PLEASE APPLY ONLINE: Please submit your application online. We request that you DO NOT email, fax or mail in hard copy documents. If you have a disability preventing you from applying on-line, please contact (902) 426-4698 or the toll free number at 1-800-645-5605.

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ASSESSMENT
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Candidates must meet all the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position.

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, recent and past performance evaluations, self-assessments, candidate achievement record, etc.

Please note that your overall conduct and communications, including email correspondence, throughout the entire process may be used in the assessment of qualifications and competencies.

You must provide proof of your education credentials. 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.

LEAVE/ABSENCES DURING THIS SELECTION PROCESS: It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify the Departmental contact of any pre-approved leave throughout the duration of the process in order to facilitate scheduling of evaluations. One (1) alternate date will be possible only if requested for the following reasons: 1) Medical reasons with doctor’s certificate 2) Death in your immediate family 3) Confirmation of pre-approved travel plans or training plans (made before the advertisement posting date) 4) Religious reasons or 5) Participation in an assessment for another selection process.

Please note that achieving the pass mark on any of the assessments used does not mean you will move forward in the selection process. Management may decide to use a score that is higher than the pass mark on any of the evaluations used throughout the selection process. Management may also decide to use top-down selection at any stage of the process.

Management may choose to invoke an asset(s) at any point of the process.

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
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Persons are entitled to participate in the selection process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

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COMMUNICATION
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Communication for this process will be sent via email. Applicants MUST check their e-mail accounts frequently as there may be a deadline for responses. It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure accurate contact information is provided and updated as required. Candidates who apply to this selection process should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). Please note that we will have to consider that you are no longer interested in participating in the selection process and that you have withdrawn your candidacy should you not provide us with an up-to-date email address or respond to our communications.
If you need to communicate with us during any stage of this process, please indicate the selection process number in the subject field of your email.

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.