Senior Program Advisor / Lead Planner / Senior Watch Officer

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

**IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS TO FOLLOW**

Candidates are required to complete SCREENING QUESTIONS that clearly demonstrate how they meet each essential criteria of education and experience and any asset education and asset experience. Candidates should use concrete examples. It is NOT sufficient to only provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Rather, you must clearly demonstrate HOW, WHEN, and WHERE the qualification was met through substantiation by examples. Resumes will be used to validate. It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Other qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. Asset Qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed as a right-fit or may be used to manage the volume of candidates. Therefore, it is important to answer each of the questions related to the requirements.

Duties

STREAM 1 - Senior Program Advisor
The Senior Program Advisor is the team lead responsible for operational management and program delivery pertaining to emergency management training, exercises, support activities or after-action reporting on emergency events, thus contributing to future policy or program development, and operational response to emergency events. Duties include;include providing advice and guidance to both staff and management, project management, conducting research, preparing written reports, briefing materials or training procedures. The candidate will build partnerships and consult with various stakeholders, identify barriers to successful program performance and develop improvements as appropriate. The candidate must independently manage the team, be adaptable to changing environments, have strong project management, leadership, organizational skills, and attention to detail.

STREAM 2 - Lead Planner
The Lead Planner is responsible for developing and assessing the need for the development of prevention, mitigation and response plans before or following the occurrence of events of national concern. He or she may also be responsible for developing contingency plans designed to help effectively respond to a significant future event or situation that may or may not occur.

STREAM 3 - Senior Watch Officer
The Senior Watch Officer (SWO) leads a team of Watch Officers and Operations Clerks in providing timely, round-the-clock briefing information and coordinated support to key national players in the event of national emergencies. The SWO contributes to identifying high risk events that require important coordination across multiple departments and agencies. Working with these partners, the SWO and their team play a key role in providing up to date information to support national-level decision-making and facilitate a coordinate response of federal departments and agencies when the scope of an event has overwhelmed the capabilities of provinces and territories.

Work environment

The Department of Public Safety Canada is always looking for talented and skilled individuals to join our team. We exercise national leadership in building a safe and resilient Canada. Our success lies with a dynamic workforce that strives for excellence and innovation. The way we do our work is just as important as the work we do. We encourage behaviour among our employees that supports a positive and healthy workplace and exemplifies our Departmental Values of Service, Unity, Respect and Excellence.

We are committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce that is representative of Canadian society, and to the equitable representation of women, aboriginal peoples, persons with a disability and members of the visible minority group. We encourage them to self-declare.

Are you looking for an environment that offers many challenges with the opportunity to work on high profile issues? If so, we may have a job opportunity for you.

Intent of the process

The intent of this selection process is to staff indeterminate position(s) at Public Safety Canada in the National Capital Region (NCR).

A pool of qualified candidates may be established to staff identical or similar positions with various tenures, and/or various language requirements/linguistic profiles, and/or various work locations and/or various security requirements.

As a result of the potential and possible use of the selection process and subsequent pool by hiring managers within Public Safety in various regions, we encourage all employees seeking this type of group and level to apply.

Indeterminate employees at the same group and level or equivalent may be considered for deployment.

Positions to be filled: 10

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

EDUCATION - All streams:
A secondary school diploma.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE - All Streams:
- Experience working in an operational, program delivery, project delivery or policy development environment;
- Experience in conducting research and drafting briefing material for a variety of audiences including management and stakeholders;
- Experience providing advice to management pertaining to operations, programs, policies or planning based on information from a variety of sources;
- Experience in building and maintaining partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

EXPERIENCE - STREAM 3 Only - Senior Watch Officer
- Experience leading a team in an operational and/or emergency environment.

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

Various language requirements
- Bilingual Imperative CBC/CBC
- Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB
- English Essential
- French Essential

Information on language requirements

COMPETENCIES - All Streams:
Behavioural Competencies:
- Integrity and Respect (4)
- Analytical and Strategic Thinking (3)
- Decision Making / Judgment (3)
- Adaptability (3)
- Initiative (3)
- Collaboration and Network Building (3)

Technical Competencies:
- Planning and organizing (3)
- Oral Communication (3)
- Written Communication (3)

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

ASSET EDUCATION - All Streams:
- Successful completion of two (2) years of a post-secondary program from a recognized post-secondary institution;

- Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution.

- Successful completion of a post-secondary education (certificate, diploma or degree) in an Emergency Management related program from a recognized post-secondary institution.

Degree equivalency

ASSET EXPERIENCE - All Streams:
- Experience leading a team in an operational or emergency management environment;

- Experience supervising a team;

- Experience as a member of an event or crisis team dealing with a disaster, an event of national interest or security incident;

- Experience leading planning efforts and developing plans for an event, operations or exercises in an emergency management or national security environment;

- Experience in exercise design and/or delivery related to emergency management programs, plans or policies or another related field;

- Experience in program evaluation or after-action reporting related to emergency management programs, plans or policies or another related field;

- Experience in developing training material and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver training, promote common standards, and curriculums related to emergency management programs, plans or policies or another related field; and/or

- Experience in project management which includes managing projects and working with stakeholders to deliver projects relating to emergency management tools and systems or in another related field.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:

The Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness is committed to maintaining a representative workforce reflective of Canadian society. In support of achieving a diversified workforce and our employment equity goals, qualified candidates who self-declare in a staffing process as members of Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and/or women may be selected for appointment to fulfill organizational needs.

Conditions of employment

Various levels of Security:
- Secret
- Top Secret

STREAM 3 - SENIOR WATCH OFFICER - ONLY:
Requirement to work shift work (24/7); overtime on short or no notice, subject to call-back; shut-down (remaining at work) for an extended period of time and work on site/in person at the office.

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

• ALL JOB APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED USING THE WWW.JOBS.GC.CA WEBSITE. NO APPLICATION WILL BE ACCEPTED BY EMAIL;

• You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position;

• It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples that illustrate how you meet each qualification. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected;

• Asset Qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed as a right-fit for the position or may be used to manage the volume of candidates;

• A test may be administered;

• An interview may be administered;

• Reference checks will be sought;

• A verification of your security clearance may be made (if applicable);

• A random and/or top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process;

• Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent;

• Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid email address and to make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email);

• Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application;

• Please identify clearly your substantive group and level, your employment status and your Personal Record Identifier (PRI) on your resume and/or cover letter and/or application form, if applicable;

• If you are a term employee, please indicate the start and end date of your current contract;

• We will seek your letter of offer validating your group and level (if applicable);

• Successful candidates must meet and maintain the Conditions of Employment
throughout their employment;

• You must be prepared to provide the original or a certified true copy of your educational credentials;

• Foreign Education Credentials: The Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC) contains information on how to obtain an assessment of foreign education credentials. Candidates with foreign education credentials are required to provide proof of Canadian equivalency. You may consult the CICIC for further information: http://www.cicic.ca/en/index.aspx

• You may be required to provide ORIGINAL proof of your Canadian citizenship or your eligibility to work in Canada if your application is accepted. It is your responsibility to provide this information if and when requested.

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.