Intelligence Manager

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Duties

The Intelligence Manager will have the exciting opportunity to provide leadership and guidance shaping the Competition Bureau’s (“Bureau”) growing centralized intelligence function. Located within the Digital Enforcement and Intelligence Branch (“DEIB”), the Intelligence Manager will be responsible for managing a team of intelligence analysts within a centralized intelligence unit and will play a key role in leading the Bureau’s transition to proactive, intelligence-led enforcement and ensuring that the Bureau is at the cutting edge of competition enforcement in the digital age.

As the Intelligence Manager, you will have the opportunity to:

• Continue building this developing unit and enhancing its capacity;
• Collaborate with clients within the organization to continue providing existing services as well as developing new service offerings to best meet their needs;
• Oversee the development of strategic, operational, and advanced tactical intelligence products;
• Lead the implementation of an intelligence-led enforcement model in support of civil and criminal investigations across the organization;
• Develop and enhance relationships with the Bureau’s intelligence and enforcement counterparts, both domestically and internationally; and
• Manage a team of intelligence analysts (currently six and anticipated to grow to nine).

Work environment

At ISED we foster a healthy, modern, diverse and inclusive workplace. Our efforts to create and maintain an outstanding workplace have been recognized. ISED is proud to be named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers 2023, National Capital Region’s Top Employer 2023, and Canada’s Best Diversity Employers 2023.  

As a Best Diversity Employer, ISED values and recognizes employees for their unique qualities, ideas, voices, and perspectives. We are committed to supporting the success and continued development of all employees regardless of race, ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socioeconomic background or lived experience. By embracing diversity and inclusion, our department ensures broader discussions, better decisions, and a more positive workplace. 

ISED is transitioning to a hybrid work environment to leverage the best of both in-person and virtual work to deliver results. To foster a dynamic environment for purposeful in-person connections, most employees will be working part time at their designated ISED worksite on a weekly basis, and the remainder of the time from their telework location.  

The Competition Bureau has offices located in:
• Gatineau, Quebec (at 50 Victoria St.);
• Montreal, Quebec (at 1155 Metcalfe St.);
• Toronto, Ontario (at 151 Yonge St.); and
• Vancouver, British Columbia (at 300 Georgia St. W).

This job has been identified as ‘hybrid’. Generally, employees in a hybrid job can anticipate working from their designated ISED location from two to three days per week.

ISED is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment with the right tools, mindsets, behaviours and practices to work effectively together in hybrid.  

Intent of the process

The intent of this selection process is to staff one position on an indeterminate basis. A pool of qualified candidates may be established to staff similar positions with various language requirements and various tenures (indeterminate, term, deployment, acting, secondment or assignment) within Innovation, Science and Economic Development 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)

EDUCATION
Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in economics, sociology or statistics.

Part A Notes:
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.

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/

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE
- Significant* experience working in the field of intelligence within a law-enforcement or regulatory environment.
- Significant* experience in working collaboratively within an organisation, with other groups within the federal government, and/or with external stakeholders, in order to achieve organisational objectives and build collaborative relationships.
- Experience leading intelligence projects (for example, leading other team members, identifying project outcomes, developing a project plan, planning and coordinating activities, monitoring progress against established timelines, evaluating results).

* Significant is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally acquired with having performed a broad range of various, complex related activities acquired over a period of at least four (4) years.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS (Experience)
- Experience in conducting investigations or intelligence analysis related to an economic mandate.
- Experience in developing intelligence products that support proactive enforcement.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (CBC/CBC)

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE
- Knowledge of intelligence analysis principles and analytical techniques, including the Intelligence Cycle and how intelligence is used to support law enforcement objectives.
- Knowledge of open and closed source intelligence gathering techniques and application.

COMPETENCIES
- Analytical Thinking – Using a logical reasoning process to break down and work through a situation or problem, to arrive at an appropriate outcome/recommendation/decisions, based on fact.

- Relationship Management and Collaboration – Builds and maintains effective, trusting and mutually-beneficial relationships through collaboration, networking , and managing conflict, i.e. respecting the needs and contributions of others, and negotiating win-win solutions to achieve common objectives.

- Strategic Thinking – Brings awareness of the organization’s business framework, considerations and perspectives to ensure completeness and integration in the assessment of business situations / issues; ensures thorough analysis generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, and supports innovative solutions / recommendations that provide reasonable and creative alternatives; while addressing need for strategic risk considerations.

- Leadership – Motivates and engages members of a group, on a formal or informal basis (e.g. project, committee); provides guidance, support, and direction; builds on diverse ideas and perspectives, and creates consensus in promoting the organization’s vision; while being responsible and accountable for the group’s achievement of organizational goals and objectives.

- Effective Interactive Communication – Expresses and transmits information orally with consistency and clarity, using active listening techniques in order to effectively understand provided feedback, summarizing information according to the audience in order to promote engagement and increase understanding. Able to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

- Written Communication – Ability to produce clear, concise, logical and grammatically correct written material to effectively exchange information and ideas with others. Able to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

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

Organizational needs 

ISED is committed to employment equity (EE). In order to achieve a representative workforce, selection may be based on qualified candidates self-declaring as being a member of one or more of the following EE groups: Indigenous person (First Nations, Metis, and/or Inuit), a person with a disability, a racialized person, or a woman. 

Appointments of members of these EE groups ensure that our workforce is inclusive and representative of the Canadian public we serve. 

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Willingness and ability to work overtime.
- Willingness and ability to travel.

Conditions of employment

Secret security clearance - This factor is not used at the screening stage. The department is responsible for the security clearance process.

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

Interviews will be conducted.

A written exam will be administered.

Reference checks will be conducted.

Candidates must meet the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position.

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

Meeting one or many of the Asset qualifications may be a deciding factor in appointing a particular candidate amongst the qualified candidates. Please note that one, some or all of the Asset qualifications could be used at any stage of the staffing process.

Candidates invited to an interview will be required to bring proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript.

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

Indeterminate employees at the same group and level or equivalent may be considered first for deployment. If no deployment is made, applicants from other groups and levels will be considered in the advertised appointment process.

An assignment/secondment or an acting appointment is a temporary resourcing option. The approval of your substantive supervisor may/will be required before an offer can be made.

COMMUNICATIONS:

Communication for this process will be sent via email. It is the candidate’s responsibility 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).

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

If you have questions, need accommodations, or are not able to apply online, please use the Contact information below. If you prefer to speak on the phone, please include that request in your email, along with your contact information.

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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.