Section Head – Inventory Improvement AFOLU

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

Candidates must answer the screening questions to evaluate the education and experience criteria deemed necessary for the position. All other essential qualifications such as the knowledge, abilities and personal suitability will be assessed at a later point in this process.

Remember that the assessment board cannot make assumptions about your experience. It is insufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current or past duties or publications. Rather, using this tool, candidates must demonstrate how they meet the education and experience criteria listed in the essential qualifications and asset qualifications section by providing clear and concrete examples.

Clear and concrete examples are defined as illustrations in which you fully explain the actions, considerations and steps you completed in order to gain the experience you are describing. This detailed contextual information will be used by the board members reviewing your submission to assess whether you have sufficient experience in a relevant field to complete the tasks which will be assigned to you should you be considered for this position. This is similar to what would be expected of you when asked to provide a concrete example of a particular situation in the context of an interview. In order to facilitate this process, you may wish to start your submissions with a sentence similar to: “A clear and concrete example of a situation where I did X is a situation which occurred on Y date and my role in this activity was to...”.

Resumes will be used as a secondary source of information and strictly to validate the concrete examples you will have described in this tool.

Also, when reading the experience criteria for staffing processes, please pay close attention to action words contained within and ensure the examples you chose to include speak to all of them. Similar attention should be given to punctuation and connector words such as “commas”, “and” and “or” as these have a different functions when used to describe an experience criteria. As such, action words or activities separated with a “,” and connected with an “and” must all be demonstrated with concrete examples as in this case, they are all deemed essential by the hiring manager. Conversely, when action words or activities are separated with a “,” and connected with an “or”, candidates may provide concrete examples for only one of the activities listed in the criterion as in this case, the hiring manager is looking for someone who has experience in at least one of the activities but not necessarily all of them.

For example, when responding to a criterion which reads: “Experience reading, writing and publishing instructions for a competitive process.” you must provide concrete examples of situations where you read instructions, concrete examples of situations where you wrote instructions as well as concrete examples of situations where you published instructions for a competitive process. These may be part of the same example however, you must ensure to provide sufficient details to cover the three actions as they are all critical.

On the other hand, when responding to an experience criterion which reads: “Experience reading, writing or publishing instructions for a competitive process” you must provide concrete examples for a minimum of one situation where you either read, wrote or published instructions for a competitive process as experience in a minimum of one activity is critical. This being said, when this structure is used, you may also provide concrete examples for all actions words or activities as this approach will provide board members with additional information to assess the breath of your experience.

Finally, if the examples you provide speak of experience that was acquired in a team setting, please be specific as to your exact role within this team as it is your experience the board will be looking to assess and not that of your team.

***Please note that the ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY IN WRITING will be EVALUATED THROUGH your application.***

Work environment

At Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), you can be at the heart of domestic and international efforts to protect the environment, to lead action on climate change, to conserve our country’s natural heritage, and to provide weather and meteorological information to keep Canadians informed and safe.

ECCC employs nearly 7000 people working in a broad range of fields including biology, chemistry, climatology, communications, engineering, environmental sciences, human resources, hydrology, informatics, law, law enforcement, library science, meteorology, policy, and more. Our offices are found in over 100 communities across the country, from Iqaluit to Toronto and Vancouver to St. John's. We are passionate about promoting the value of science and technology to decision-making, in collaborating with one another and with external stakeholders, both within our communities and from around the world, and in seeking the most innovative and effective solutions to protect our air, water, wildlife and spaces.

Why work with us?
•We tackle some of the biggest environmental issues
•We embrace and promote diversity and inclusiveness
•We promote a respectful workplace
•We support a healthy work-life balance
•We invest in employee learning and career development
•We offer competitive wages and benefits

Protecting the environment starts with you. Come join us!

Intent of the process

A pool of qualified candidates will be established for positions in the National Capital Region with various linguistic profiles and/or requirements (such as English essential, bilingual BBB/BBB, CBC/CBC and/or CCC/CCC), various security requirements (Reliability, Secret) as well as tenures (Term, Assignment, Secondment, Acting, Indeterminate, Deployment), which may vary according to the position being staffed.

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 physics, geology, chemistry or some other science relevant to the position.

Note: The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and must have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
EX1:Experience in coordinating science or leading activities for interdisciplinary scientific working groups or projects involving various stakeholders in a research or applied science context.
EX2:Significant experience* in conducting research and analysis and preparing scientific briefings, including recommendations to senior management on environmental issues.
EX3:Significant experience* in writing scientific or technical papers on the state of the environment for scientific and non-scientific audiences.
EX4:Significant* experience in human resource management**.

*Significant experience will be assessed in terms of the depth and breadth of activities, the complexity and diversity of work handled as well as the level of autonomy demonstrated. While such an experience would normally be acquired over a period of approximately 2 years, a shorter duration may be considered based on demonstrated complexity and diversity of work handled, scope of work, and/or level of direct responsibility.

**Human resource management is defined as managing a team or supervising junior staff members or students, including assigning work, monitoring performance and providing feedback.

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

Various language requirements
Imperative (CBC/CBC)

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE:
K1:Knowledge of land use, land management and land-use change and their impacts on carbon cycles and greenhouse gas emissions and current and emerging issues related to their impacts;
K2:Knowledge of the methods to quantify emissions of GHGs to and removals from the atmosphere through natural processes.
K3:Knowledge of scientific data collection, analysis and interpretation

ABILITIES:
A1:Ability to analyse issues and make appropriate recommendations on scientific information.
A2:Ability to lead teams.
A3:Ability to manage projects.
A4:Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
A5:Ability to communicate effectively orally.

PERSONAL SUITABILITIES:
Ps1. Initiative
Ps2. Attention to detail
Ps3. Interpersonal skills
Ps4. Judgment

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

EDUCATION:
Masters or PhD from a recognized post-secondary institution, with acceptable specialization in physics, geology, chemistry, agricultural sciences, forestry, natural resource management or some other science relevant to the position.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
EX1:Experience in the use of environmental models in scientific analyses
EX2:Experience in carrying out and analyzing geomatics projects associated with large databases

Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women

Information on employment equity

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:
At ECCC, diversity is our strength. If you’re a woman, an Indigenous person, a person with a disability or a visible minority and are interested in bringing in different perspectives and insights, let us know by completing the Employment Equity (EE) section in your application. Environment and Climate Change Canada is committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population we serve. In support of our strategy to achieve our employment equity goals, selection may be limited to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Women, Aboriginal Persons, Visible Minorities and Persons with Disabilities.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Willingness and ability to work overtime occasionally.
- Willingness and ability to travel occasionally, including to remote locations.
- Subject to employment equity considerations

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

APPLICATION PROCESS:
◾ Interested persons must meet all essential qualifications to be appointed to positions. Asset qualifications could be used at the screening stage. Please ensure that your resume clearly indicates how you meet each of assets qualifications (education and experience), if applicable. A person may be appointed even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications. However, it may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed.

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

◾ It is your responsibility to ensure that your email and contact information are maintained with the Assessment board AND in your Public Service Resourcing System (PSRS) account. As all of the communication for this process will be conducted via the email address provided in your application AND via your PSRS account, it is your responsibility to ensure that you check for messages regularly and to ensure that your email address accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email or filter them to a junk mail folder). Failure to respond to key messages may result in your being eliminated from this process.

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE:
◾ Qualifications may be assessed by a variety of tools and methods. Therefore, a written exam, an interview, reference checks or other assessment methods may be used in this process. Candidates are expected to make a reasonable effort to make themselves available for assessments as scheduled. Pass marks will be established for each qualification. However, achieving the pass mark is not a guarantee of an appointment or that candidates will be put through the next stages of the assessment process. A cut-off score may be used and top-down approach may be used at any step if there is a sufficient number of candidates to meet immediate and anticipated staffing needs.

◾ Depending on the number of applicants, the needs and/or Human Resources plans, volume management strategies such as random selection, top-down approach and/or establishing cut-off scores to determine who will continue in the staffing process, MAY BE USED for the purpose of managing applications.

◾ All communication relating to this process, including email correspondence and telephone conversations, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

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.