Statistics Canada is looking for Communications Advisor!

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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.

We encourage our employees to innovate and strive for excellence, we promote career advancement, encourage continued learning and training, and embrace new technologies that allow us to increase efficiency and flexibility in our work environment.

Work environment

We are looking for creative, motivated and inspired professionals to join our growing team. We will be staffing various positions in marketing, communications, outreach, social media, media relations and official release. You will be working in a fast-paced, data-driven environment and collaborating with experts in various fields.

Statistics Canada was recognized as one of the National Capital Region's top employers in 2022, and Canada's top employers for young people because we focus on the longer term welfare of our employees and offer a variety of recruitment and development programs for new and recent graduates in various disciplines.

Intent of the process

This process is intended to staff Communications Advisor positions at the IS-04 group and level.

A pool of fully or partially qualified candidates may be established through this process to staff identical or similar positions with various tenures, linguistic requirements, security requirements, conditions of employment and locations.

Employees at level could be considered first for deployment opportunities and employees who are members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women could be considered first for appointment.

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 degree* from a recognized post-secondary institution with specialization in communications, journalism, public relations or other specialty relevant to the position.

*Degree: A baccalaureate or higher level degree, as established by educational authorities.

Note: Based on their education, training and/or experience, indeterminate incumbents of positions in the IS classification are deemed to meet the minimum education standard whenever a bachelor's degree without specialization is called for in a position classified as IS.

At the manager's discretion, an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience, may serve as an alternative to the minimum education standard.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE

1. Experience* in researching, writing and editing communications or marketing documents for various audiences. These might include but are not limited to presentations, communications plans, news releases, backgrounders, speaking notes, fact sheets, media lines, media responses, media analyses, brochures, articles, scripts, speeches, blog posts, or social media messages.

2. Experience* developing effective working relationships and collaborating with a wide variety of internal or external stakeholders and/or partners such as but not limited to other levels of government, NGOs, associations or the private sector.

3. Experience* developing, implementing and measuring integrated and creative communications strategies and/or communications plans.

*Experience is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally associated with full-time performance of duties for a minimum of three (3) years.

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

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

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

KNOWLEDGE

1. Knowledge of the Government of Canada Policy on Communications and Federal Identity
2. Knowledge of current trends and best practices in communications methods, tools and evaluation.

COMPETENCIES

1. Demonstrating integrity and respect
2. Thinking things through
3. Working effectively with others
4. Showing initiative and being action-oriented

ABILITIES

1. Ability to communicate effectively orally
2. Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
3. Ability to manage multiple priorities and work within tight deadlines.
4. Ability to analyze issues and to provide appropriate recommendations related to communications.

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience supervising employees.
2. Experience monitoring, analyzing, measuring and reporting on performance of digital communications.
3. Experience organizing and providing logistical support for virtual and in person conferences and events.
4. Experience developing and implementing marketing campaigns.
5. Experience developing detailed business and functional requirements for digital communications projects.
6. Experience managing or supporting digital communications projects, including mobile applications.
7. Experience in media relations and conducting media monitoring, analysis, and reporting.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

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

• Ability and willingness to work overtime as required.
• Ability and willingness to work from home

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

On October 6, 2021, the Government of Canada announced details of its plans to require vaccination across the federal public service.

As per the new Policy on COVID-19 Vaccination for the Core Public Administration Including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, federal public servants in the Core Public Administration and members of the RCMP must attest to their vaccination status. The requirement for employees to be fully vaccinated applies whether they are teleworking, working remotely or working on-site. This is a condition of employment and it applies to indeterminate (permanent), determinate (term), casual, and student hiring. Should you reach the point in the selection process where it is necessary to verify terms and conditions of employment then the hiring manager or a human resources representative will contact you in order to complete an attestation.

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, a virtual interview, 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 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.

Please note that assessments will only be rescheduled under exceptional circumstances (proof required).

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.