Conference and Multimedia Services Technician

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Assessment accommodation

Statistics Canada is a world-renowned leader in its domain, and its employees are proud to fulfill its mission: to serve Canada with high-quality statistical information that matters. We want to help Canadians better understand their country, so they can make more thoughtful decisions. The advantages of a strong workplace cannot be understated. Diverse. Accommodating. Nurturing. Rewarding. For employees to reach their full potential, a workplace MUST meet all of these criteria. Our success lies with a dynamic workforce that strives for excellence and innovation. We are proud to provide a healthy, respectful and supportive work environment for all employees and offer opportunities to develop and acquire new skills.

Duties

Plans and coordinates projects for Conference Centre audio-visual specifications and related requirements including the scope, logistics, and technical details involved in the conference centre’s physical setup in Statistics Canada’s three conference centres.

Plans and develops a video production service, including operational procedures, practices and coordinates support of all stages of the production process from pre-production, production and post-production.

Provide subject matter technical expertise to define statements of requirement or specification of goods to acquire departmental multimedia and audio visual purchases, repairs and operations.

Provide departmental wide multimedia services using the studio facilities to film and edit video using a non-linear computer based system.

Intent of the process

A pool of partially qualified candidates may be established from this process to staff GT-03 and equivalent positions within Statistics Canada across Canada. This process may be used to staff positions of various tenures, language requirements, security profiles and various work locations.

If you are an employee of the public service of Canada and are qualified through this process, you may be considered for acting, assignment, secondment or deployment opportunities and the proper approval will be sought.

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)

EDUCATION:
A secondary school diploma or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
EXP1 - Experience in providing client services
EXP2 - Experience in multimedia services including non-linear video editing, video camera configuration and setup, multi-camera configurations and operations (Studio and Broadcasting work).
EXP3 - Experience in scheduling resources (human, physical and logistical) to meet objectives and provide services.
EXP4 - Experience in installing, setting up and repairing multimedia and audio visual equipment.

ABILITIES:
A1 - Ability to prepare technical, logistical and location requirements for multimedia projects.

COMPETENCIES:
C1 - Thinking Things Through
C2 - Showing Initiative and Being Action Oriented
C3 - Demonstrating Integrity and Respect
C4 - Working effectively with others
C5 - Communication (Written and Oral)

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

Various language requirements
English essential
French essential
English or French essential
Bilingual imperative BBB/BBB

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

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

Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women

Information on employment equity

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
1. Due to possible exposure to asbestos the employee must be willing and able to wear prescribed personal protective equipment when required, and maintain job related personal safety equipment throughout their time in this position.
2. Ability to attain the asbestos containing material certification (ACM level II certification) and maintain this certification through the time in the position’.
3. Ability to lift 40 pounds

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

All employees of the core public administration are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and attest to their vaccination status unless accommodated based on a medical contraindication, religion, or another prohibited ground for discrimination as defined under the Canadian Human Rights Act.

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

Statistics Canada is committed to hiring and promoting a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population it serves. 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.

At Statistics Canada we recognize that a diverse and inclusive workplace that can harness the diverse backgrounds, talents and perspectives of its employees is essential to building a better, more productive and more innovative Canada.

Statistics Canada promotes the advantages of diversity and inclusion in the federal government and offers interesting career opportunities and rewarding challenges for everyone.

Statistics Canada is an equal opportunity employer which encourages women, Indigenous people, members of visible minorities and persons with disabilities to apply for employment.

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

The assessment board may assess qualifications using telephone interview, pre-recorded video interviews, written tests, references or a combination of these or other assessment methods. Other sources of information (such as performance evaluation, work samples, board member knowledge.) may be used to inform the assessment of the criteria identified on the Statement of Merit Criteria.

Your responses to screening questions may be used to assess the Ability to communicate effectively in writing.

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates should check their emails regularly, as there may be new communications regarding this process. Candidates must include a valid email address, and make sure that this address is functional and accepts messages from unknown users.

Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed. Other qualifications may be taken into consideration in the selection decision.

A random selection and/or top-down selection may be used at any moment of the process to manage the number of candidates; and/or a volume management strategy may be used at any point during the process, in order to determine the number of candidates to be further considered.

Only the candidates who will be successful on the screening stage will be contacted for the next steps of the process.

We are an operations-based agency that puts our people and their needs at the heart of how we do business. If you share this people-centered philosophy, we want to hear from you.

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.