Senior Human Resources Advisor, Workplace Culture

Important messages

Giving you the best chance to succeed!
At Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) we are committed to running inclusive and barrier-free recruitment processes.

If you have a limitation that may impact your performance at any steps of the assessment process (such as during a written test or an interview), you may request an accommodation. Assessment accommodations are designed to remove barriers, and to ensure that candidates with limitations can fully demonstrate their abilities. Should you wish to be accommodated, please direct your inquiry to the contact identified at the bottom of this poster. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

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Duties

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) Western Region includes employees working across a large geographical area, including Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Saskatchewan. Building a healthy and inclusive workplace culture across our region and in harmony with our department’s #OnePSPC vision is a high priority. At PSPC, our people are our greatest asset. By working together as One PSPC in integrated, streamlined and collaborative ways, we recognize that how we do our work is just as important as the results.

This position represents a unique opportunity to work alongside an engaged senior leadership team focused on cultivating an outstanding workplace culture. Applying your Organizational Development and facilitation experience, competencies and skills, you will connect and engage with management and employees across Western Region PSPC to continue discovering opportunities for individual and collective action towards positive culture change. You will work in partnership with internal stakeholders to facilitate learning and dialogue sessions and cycles of discovery, design, intervention and reflection for iterative and adaptive change and learning. Through your work, you will build the capacity of internal stakeholders to facilitate and sustain culture cultivation efforts.

Work environment

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗦𝗣𝗖!
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, 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.

At PSPC, our approach to inclusion is simple: we are committed to achieving a competent and representative workforce that reflects the diversity of the Canadian population we serve, and strive to create a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive environment that enables collaboration and innovation. When you succeed, we all succeed.

Intent of the process

One specified term position (2 year term initially). Preference location of hire: Edmonton or Winnipeg. A pool of qualified candidates may be established and may be used to staff identical or similar term, and/or permanent positions.

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:
ED1. Graduation with a degree from a recognized university 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

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 or experience. They must be accepted as having met the minimum education standard whenever this standard is called for when staffing PE positions and positions in the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and Indian Oil and Gas Canada that are equivalent to PE positions. This note also applies to persons appointed or deployed, for an indeterminate period, to PE positions after that date as the result of staffing transactions started before October 1, 1999. The positions in the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions and in Indian Oil and Gas Canada that are equivalent to PE positions are those that meet the Treasury Board definition in the PE Classification Standard.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
EX1. Significant experience* in working with teams or organizations as a facilitator or OD practitioner to assess team dynamics or organizational culture, including providing guidance based on organizational development expertise and developing recommendations and proposed actions towards desired outcomes/behaviours alongside client stakeholders.
EX2. Significant experience* in facilitating engagement sessions to gather qualitative data from groups, including analyzing/synthesizing resulting data (independently or collaboratively) to prepare reports and deliver presentations to management and stakeholders.
EX3. Experience developing and leading execution of project plans, including engaging partners and/or a working group/project team, and mapping out related actions, timelines and deliverables related to workplace initiatives.

*Significant experience is normally acquired over a period of approximately two (2) years and more. Candidates should demonstrate the breadth and depth of the files handled.

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

Asset Education:
AED1. Training specific to Organizational Development through a recognized post-secondary institution or acceptable provider (minimum two or more courses and/or relevant certification).

Degree equivalency

Asset Experience:
AEX1. Experience delivering Organizational Development services to clients in the federal public service.
AEX2. Experience in facilitating, leading and/or presenting to groups which include senior management (executive levels).
AEX3. Experience in providing alternate dispute resolution or conflict management services.

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge:
K1. Knowledge of organization development processes and/or models

Competencies:
C1. Engagement – Working effectively with people, organizations, partners
C2. Thinking things Through – Innovating through Analysis and Ideas
C3. Values and Ethics – Serving through Integrity and Respect
C4. Management Excellence - Initiative – Design and Execution
C5. Client service – Level 1

Abilities:
A1. Ability to communicate effectively in writing
A2. Ability to communicate effectively orally
A3. Ability to deliver effective presentations

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

In support of achieving a diversified workforce, consideration may be given to candidates, who, at the time of application, self-declare* as belonging to one of the following designated Employment Equity groups: Women, Indigenous (Aboriginal) Peoples, Persons with Disabilities and Members of Visible Minorities.

* We therefore encourage you to self-declare during the online application process by selecting the appropriate box under the Employment Equity section.

For further details, please refer to the “Other information” section.

Information on employment equity

Operational Requirements :
- Willingness and ability to travel as required

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

The application of the Asset Qualifications, random selection and/or top down selection may be used at any stage of the selection process.

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 in addition to all assessment methods, correspondence and communication in relation to this selection process may also be used to assess certain qualifications.

Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca/

Only job applications received directly through jobs-emplois.gc.ca will be accepted. DO NOT email, fax, or mail copies of your application. To submit an application, please click on the button “apply now.”

A written exam may be administered.

Interviews will be conducted.

Reference checks will be conducted.

Public service employees found qualified in this process may be considered for acting, assignment, deployment or secondment.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, 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.