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Important messages

We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please use the Contact information below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Assessment accommodation

📣DFO recognizes that the diversity of its employee population contributes to its strength and integrity. Selection may be limited to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal peoples, persons with a disability, and visible minorities.

By completing the Employment Equity section in your application, you help create a Public Service that is diverse, inclusive and representative of identities, cultures, perspectives and experiences that make up Canada.

🐠 Fisheries and Oceans Canada and The Canadian Coast Guard (an agency of Fisheries and Oceans Canada) are looking for new talent. 🚢

★ Do not miss your chance to make a real difference in the lives of Canadians!!★

Are you ready to jump into a NEW opportunity right NOW? Or prefer to wait AFTER your summer vacation is done? We have BOTH opportunities available through this process!

✍ How to apply for these Policy/Economic Analyst or Advisors job opportunities?

1️⃣ Answer the screening questions in the online application system. Your answers MUST demonstrate how you meet the Education and Experience criteria listed below. These include the Essential Qualifications as well as additional relevant education or experience you may have (asset qualifications). Provide CONCRETE examples of your work experience within your answers to the screening questions. Do not simply refer to your resumé.

2️⃣ Upload your resumé to the online application system. Your resumé should support your answers to the screening questions, but is not a substitute.

3️⃣ Submit your application!

📣Your application may be used in the assessment of your ability to communicate effectively in writing; however, the Competencies criteria listed below will be assessed at a later date, after initial screening of applications.

A random selection or a top-down approach based on experience, assessment results and/or selection decision, may be used at any point during this process, in order to determine the number of candidates to be further considered.

Work environment

JOIN US! WHY?

🥇 Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Coast Guard(CCG) have been recognized as Forbes Canada’s Best Employers (2018 and 2021), National Capital Region’s Top Employers and one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People for six years in a row!

🐠 Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) leads the management of Canada’s fisheries and the safeguarding of Canadian waters.

🐠 Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) helps to ensure healthy and sustainable aquatic ecosystems through habitat protection and sound science. We support economic growth in the marine and fisheries sectors, and innovation in areas such as aquaculture and biotechnology.

🐠 We are proud to celebrate our diversity and our commitment to values and ethics – we recognize our employees for a variety of achievements, including Excellence in Values and Innovation.

🚢 The Canadian Coast Guard is a special operating agency within Fisheries and Oceans Canada. We work to ensure the safety of mariners in Canadian waters and protect Canada’s marine environment.

🚢 We support Canada’s economic growth through the safe and efficient movement of maritime trade. We help to ensure our country’s sovereignty and security through our presence in Canadian waters.

Still not convinced to apply❔

Did you know that we also have a real impact on the lives of Canadians? On a typical day, its workforce:

✔️ Saves 15 human lives;
✔️ Answers 1,127 radio communications;
✔️ Responds to 5 environmental pollution reports;
→ And so much more!

Are you looking for an organization that:

✔️Focuses on its employees' creativity and their professional development;
✔️Has a rich and diverse range of career opportunities; and
✔️ Is a respectful workplace that celebrates diversity in all its genres?

If you're looking for new and rewarding challenges, do not waste another second and submit your application to join one of the most dynamic organization in the Federal Public Service.

Intent of the process

The intent of this staffing process is to create a pool of qualified candidates which may be used to fill identical or similar positions with various tenures, security profiles and linguistic requirements within Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Canadian Coast Guard in the NCR.

Please note as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are working remotely for the time being. Assessments will be conducted virtually. If you are appointed to a position, DFO will provide tools and equipment to support remote work. As public health restrictions ease, the successful candidate will be expected to report to a DFO office, dependent on departmental policy.

Positions to be filled: 60

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

📌 EDUCATION FOR ALL POSITIONS ✔️ EC-04 ✔️ EC-05 ✔️ EC-06

🎓 EDU1- Graduation with a degree* from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization** in Economics, Sociology or Statistics.

➜ Note: Candidates must always have a degree. The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and may have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization. The specialization may also be obtained through an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

📌EXPERIENCE FOR ALL POSITIONS ✔️ EC-04 ✔️ EC-05 ✔️ EC-06

⇢ EX1- Recent and significant* experience in consulting and collaborating with stakeholders (i.e. other federal government organizations, provincial or local governments, Indigenous governments, international organizations and partners, non-governmental, public or private sector organizations) on policy-related issues.

⇢ EX2- Recent and significant* experience analyzing complex*** issues, developing options or recommendations and providing strategic advice to senior management**.

⇢ EX3- Recent and significant* experience in developing or preparing documents for senior management** (such as policy analyses, issue analyses, briefing notes or presentations) on complex*** strategic issues or initiatives.

⇢ EX4- Recent and significant* experience conducting research and synthesizing complex*** ideas.

📌EXPERIENCE FOR THE ✔️EC-06 POSITION ONLY:

⇢ EX5- Recent and significant* experience in leading various stages of a complex*** policy initiative or project or negotiation strategies.

* Recent and significant experience is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally achieved through the performance of relevant duties on a regular and continuous basis for a period of:
✔️ At least one (1) year/ (12) months within the past three (3) years for the EC 04 level
✔️ At least (18) months within the past five (5) years for the EC 05 & EC 06 level

**Senior management is defined as Director-level or above.

*** Complex is defined as having at least two (2) of the following characteristics: 1) multi- stakeholder 2) sensitive 3) highly technical 4) multi-year or multi-phase 5) precedent setting 6) having a major external or organizational wide-impact 7) high profile (ex: media or public attention).

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

Various language requirements
Various language requirements, English Essential, Bilingual Imperative (BBB/BBB; CBC/CBC)

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

📌COMPETENCIES FOR ALL POSITIONS ✔️ EC-04 ✔️ EC-05 ✔️ EC-06

⇢ C1- Effective Oral Communication
⇢ C2- Written communication
⇢ C3- Research and Analysis
⇢ C4- Planning and Prioritizing
⇢ C5- Thinking Things Through

📌COMPETENCY FOR THE ✔️EC-06 POSITION:

⇢ C6- Leadership

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

📌Asset Education:

🎓 AEDU1: Graduation with a Master’s Degree or PhD from a recognized post-secondary institution with a specialization in related fields.

Degree equivalency

📌Asset Experience:

⇢ Experience preparing Memoranda to Cabinet or Treasury Board Submissions or costing requirements to support various Cabinet submissions.

⇢ Experience with analyzing financial policies or systems or providing advice on financial authorities.

⇢ Experience in developing national engagement strategies or preparing position papers.

⇢ Experience in interpreting and application of legislation and regulations or developing policy to support legislative or regulatory amendments.

⇢ Experience related to the field of geomatics.

⇢ Experience analyzing transportation policy or programs.

⇢ Experience in supporting national or regional program delivery.

⇢ Experience working on major resource projects or related environmental assessments.

⇢ Experience in conducting research and analysis, or providing advice to senior management on international issues.

⇢ Experience developing and implementing modifications to quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.

⇢ Experience in supporting/leading reconciliation initiatives, rights or interest based negotiations with Indigenous partners.

⇢ Experience in advancing the Government of Canada’s commitment to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

⇢ Experience working on Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy files.

⇢ Experience with the development of economic models and simulations.

⇢ Experience applying economic or statistical analysis to the field of natural resources or fisheries, agri-food or seafood markets, or the coastal or marine environment.

⇢ Experience with the analysis of international trade.

⇢ Experience in coordinating briefing material for Parliamentary appearances by senior officials or the minister.

📌OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

⇢ Willingness and ability to work overtime on short notice.
⇢ Willingness and ability to travel on occasion.

Conditions of employment

⇢ Reliability/ Secret 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

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➜ ASSESSMENT (Written exam will be sent approx. week of May 23rd, 2022)
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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, reference checks.

▪️ 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.

▪️ 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.

▪️ Official language proficiency could be assessed and required solely upon appointment. Each candidate can only undergo SLE testing one time within the context of an appointment process. Also, a person who initially failed linguistic testing could be introduced into the pool of qualified candidates during the pool’s validity period if he/she is assessed again through another selection process or following linguistic training.

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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.

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➜OTHER INFORMATION
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▪️ Current or former government employees please ensure that your Personal Record Identifier (PRI) is included in your application.

▪️ Acknowledgement of receipt of applications will not be sent; we will contact candidates when the screening process is completed.

⭐️ We thank all those who apply⭐️

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.