Join an Exciting and Dynamic Real Property team at LAC !

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Assessment accommodation

When you apply, you will be asked a series of questions in order to determine your experience. Please provide detail on how you are meeting this experience, supported with examples.

Please ensure that your work experience is clearly detailed in your résumé and that you provide the following information in the screening questions:
- Name of the department or organization where the experience was acquired
- Title and level of the position occupied with duration, dates (YYYY-MM)
- Specific details of activities, projects and/or accomplishments demonstrating how the
experience was acquired

Duties

GREAT OPPORTUNITY

This is a great time to be working in the field of real property given the role that it plays in building a stronger and more sustainable economy, fighting climate change, strengthening communities and partnerships, and supporting a modern digital environment. Given the transition to Hybrid ways of working, Real Property Services will lead the charge in modernizing office space to align to new ways of working. Work must also continue in adopting a portfolio-level perspective, strengthening lifecycle management of assets; and continuously improve risk, performance, and information management.

The Real Property Services Division has a critical role to play in being responsible for the lifecycle-driven planning, ongoing oversight, and management of operations, maintenance and repair of all properties to protect and ensure long-term viability of the real estate portfolio; the provision of services through the entire spectrum of property and project management activities for LAC’s real property assets across Canada; lease administration; and facilities management - this is the career opportunity of a lifetime!

The Coordinator (Generic) assists with services pertaining to either asset lifecycle management; accommodation and workplace strategies including third party asset and/or facilities management; or for major capital projects.

Work environment

WHY JOIN LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA’S (LAC) REAL PROPERTY BRANCH (RPB)?

LAC is recognized as a world leader in acquiring, preserving and providing access to Canada’s documentary heritage. Strategies are underway to modernize its services—both in-person and virtual—and to optimize its digital capacity to acquire, manage and preserve Canada’s documentary heritage, and make it more accessible. The RPB supports the organization by managing its portfolio of assets, as a custodial department, to ensure that LAC has the special purpose and office space required to meet its program objectives. As part of this, the RPB is currently leading two of the largest public infrastructure construction projects in Canada – the Ādisōke and Gatineau 2 projects, which have captured national and international attention and are at the forefront in supporting Canadian’s Greening Government Strategy.

Ādisōke Project – LAC is partnering with the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) to construct a new net-zero carbon LAC-OPL joint facility. Construction started in November 2021 and the new building is scheduled to open to the public in 2026. When complete, this innovative collaboration will offer LAC and OPL users with enhanced services, programming activities, and museum quality exhibition galleries as well as free access to LAC’s vast collections of Canadian history and culture for generations to come!

Gatineau 2 Project – this public-private partnership project has constructed a new state of the art net-zero carbon Preservation Storage Facility, that makes it possible to preserve analog documents for 500 years and will provide present and future generations with access to them. This is the largest archival facility in the world to be equipped with an automated storage and retrieval system.

Intent of the process

The immediate need is to staff one (1) indeterminate position.

A pool of partially qualified candidates will be established. This process may be used to staff similar positions with various tenures (Acting, Assignment, Deployment,Indeterminate, Secondment, Specified period), various linguistic profiles and securityclearance levels, within Library and Archives Canada.

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)

PROFILE OF THE CANDIDATE WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
This is an opportunity to take your career to the next level and to join a highly engaged team of real property professionals. Through your work, you will drive innovation and support cultural change in the field of real property. We are looking for high performing candidates who have the following essential qualifications and other (asset) qualifications, as applicable:

EDUCATION

Diploma from a recognized post-secondary institution or an acceptable combination of education, training or experience.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE

EX1: Experience in assisting with one or more of the following:
• operation of asset lifecycle management;
• space utilization and design;
• delivering accommodation projects;
• coordinating third party facilities management services;
• delivering major capital projects;
• performance monitoring and reporting.
EX2: Experience in liaising with contractors and technical experts to monitor compliance and quality of services.
EX3: Experience in liaising with clients to confirm needs.
EX4: Experience in conducting research (e.g. best practices, trends etc.).

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

Bilingual - Imperative (BBB/BBB)

Information on language requirements

COMPETENCIES

Uphold Integrity and Respect
Working effectively with others
Showing initiative and being action-oriented
Collaborating with partners and stakeholders

ABILITIES

Ability to communicate verbally
Ability to communicate in writing***

*** Your ability to communicate in writing will be assessed using your responses to the pre-screening questions.

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

EXA1: Experience in contributing to the implementation of workplace modernization strategies
EXA2: Experience in drafting and/or contributing to presentations and reports for management
EXA3: Experience in using design software such as AutoCAD, or Autodesk to design office space and furniture lay-outs
EXA4: Experience in budget management using advanced skills in Excel.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Secret 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

Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent. We will contact candidates when the screening process is completed.

Our intention is to communicate with the candidates by email. Candidates who apply to this selection process must include in their application the following:
o A valid email address. Please make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email).
If you do not respond to our communications, we will interpret this as your withdrawal from the process
o Your substantive group and level and your employment status
o Your Personal Record Identifier (PRI).

You must provide proof of your education credentials. 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.

Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed.

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

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.