Director of Natural Resources and Energy - Anticipatory

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Assessment accommodation

Important Note: We are aware of an error in the last 3 screening questions related to the asset qualifications. We will be reaching out to candidates regarding these questions once the poster closes and candidates will not be penalized.

Intent of the process

This anticipatory process is to staff the Director of Natural Resources position in Tokyo, Japan, under NRCan’s initiative of the Indo-Pacific Strategy to expand natural resources ties—in trade, investment, and science, technology and innovation—with the Indo-Pacific Region. This process may be used to create a pool of qualified Candidates to staff similar positions within the Department of Natural Resources Canada in the future.

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 degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with a specialization including but not limited to: economics, natural resources (including energy, mining, minerals, remote sensing, forestry, fuels), international relations, and interdisciplinary studies relevant to the preceding.

Degree equivalency

Experience:

• Experience in preparing reports or memoranda including analysis, proposals and recommendations for the use of senior officials (eg. Minister, Deputy Minister, CEO, President).

• Experience in conducting analysis to support federal decisions and policy development related to energy and natural resources;

• Experience working on international issues related to Japan and the North Pacific region;

• Experience in building and maintaining effective working relationships with other federal departments and agencies, other levels of government and other stakeholders including businesses;

• Experience* in managing human and financial resources.

*Experience consists of managing the salary and operational budget for a team, as well as performance and deliverables for employees.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (CBC/CBC)

Information on language requirements

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Create Vision and Strategy
• Mobilize People
• Uphold Integrity and Respect
• Collaborate with Partners and Stakeholders
• Promote Innovation and Guide Change
• Achieve Results

Other language:

Japanese, imperative, Level 1 (i.e., able to satisfy courtesy requirements and maintain simple face-to-face conversations on familiar topics).

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

Education:

Graduation with a graduate degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with a specialization including but not limited to: economics, natural resources (including energy, mining, minerals, remote sensing, forestry, fuels), international relations, and interdisciplinary studies relevant to the preceding.

Degree equivalency

Experience:

• Experience working at and/or with Natural Resources Canada
• Experience working with Canada’s diplomatic network

Other language:

Japanese, non-imperative, Level 2 (Able to satisfy routine social demands and limited work requirements).

Conditions of employment

Top 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

Please ensure that the following is included in your application:

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. When responding to the screening questions, be sure you:

• Clearly demonstrate how you meet each of the requirements by answering the online questions and provide concrete, specific examples of actions that speak directly to the experience sought.

• Choose examples with sufficient complexity, impact and degree of difficulty that will allow you to illustrate to what extent and depth you have shown the behaviours expected for each qualification.

• Include when the example took place (month-year to month-year), background of each situation,
what you did, how you did it, what your role was in the situation, and what was the outcome.

• Focus on what you did. When referring to an experience achieved in the context of a team, set your role apart from the role(s) of others.

Résumés may be used as a secondary source to validate the qualifications described; comments such as "refer to my attached résumé" will not be accepted and may result in your application being rejected.

Lack of DETAILS may result in your application being rejected as the Assessment Board may have insufficient information to determine whether you meet the qualifications.

2. In making an appointment, any assessment method that is considered appropriate to determine whether a person meets the qualifications referred to in the statement of merit may be used, such as a review of past performance and accomplishments, examinations, interviews and reference checks.

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

4. Communication for this appointment process will be sent via e-mail. Persons are entitled to receive communication and participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.

5. Top-down selection could be applied to any of the steps in the evaluation process.

6. Based on the position being staffed, additional essential qualifications, asset qualifications, organizational needs, operational requirements and/or conditions of employment may be identified and applied during the assessment and/or selection of candidates.

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.