Capital Program Officer

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

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HOW TO ANSWER SCREENING QUESTIONS

When submitting an application to this selection process, you will be prompted to answer screening questions concerning the essential education, and the essential and asset experience qualifications. Your responses to these questions will be used as a primary source of information and your resume may only be used to validate this information. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

• Provide responses in sentence format.
• Each response must include concrete, specific examples that speak directly to the experience sought.
• Each example must include WHEN and WHERE the example took place, 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. In referring to an experience achieved in the context of a team, set your role apart from the role(s) of others.
• Simply listing your job duties, or indicating 'refer to resume', is not sufficient.
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Duties

In support of RCMP Operations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, including Depot (the national cadet training facility), the RCMP’s Corporate Management Branch (CMB) is accountable for the corporate functions of: Procurement and Contracting, Materiel Management, Real Property, Fleet Management, Finance, Business Systems, and Organizational Business Integration. To successfully perform these functions, CMB employees are required to actively engage with a diverse range of external and internal clients to understand and be responsive to their needs and take ownership of their roles and responsibilities.

The work environment is dynamic and often changing therefore, CMB employees are required to be professional, flexible, and innovative in order to achieve superior RCMP results and value for Canadians.

Most positions are Telework up to 2 days per week upon the approval of the manager.

Work environment

Working with the RCMP, a world-renowned innovative organization, you will experience meaningful work and have a real impact on the daily operations as well as job satisfaction and knowing you are making a real difference. The RCMP hires public service employees in a wide variety of disciplines to support our police officers at detachments and offices. Public service employees play a critical role in delivering services to our communities and supporting our local, provincial and national policing priorities. For every successful police operation, there is a team of public service employees providing administrative support in order to help police officers and investigators to accomplish their mandate. These employees play a critical role in delivering services to our communities and supporting our local, provincial and national policing priorities. By hiring the best candidates to staff our public service positions, we are helping police officers accomplish their law and order enforcement mandate. If you wish to provide administrative support to the RCMP, please submit your application!

Intent of the process

The intent of this process is to fill current and future vacancies in various locations with various employment tenures within the RCMP’s Corporate Management Branch.

There is 1 full-time, term position immediately available in the Northwest Region. The position can be located in Regina, Winnipeg, or Edmonton.

This process may also be used to fill future vacancies in the following locations:
Atlantic Region: Fredericton, New Brunswick; St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador; Halifax, Nova Scotia
Pacific Region: Surrey, British Columbia.

A qualified pool of candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar positions on a term and/or indeterminate (permanent) basis within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporate Management Branch in the three (3) regions. The pool could be used to offer acting appointments, assignments, secondments, terms or deployments. Should a Civilian Member (CM) be found qualified and selected for appointment, the appointment will not result in a change of status to the Public Service (PS) category for the CM.

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)

A secondary school diploma or employer-approved alternatives.
The employer-approved alternatives to a secondary school diploma are:
• A satisfactory score on the Public Service Commission test approved as an alternative to a secondary school diploma; or
• An acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience

Degree equivalency

Experience in preparing budget forecasts.

Experience is using Microsoft programs such as, MS Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Edge, Outlook.

Experience in using financial accounting software (i.e. SAP, QuickBooks Sage, Oracle)

Experience in analyzing financial data

Experience in using advanced features in Microsoft Excel such as formatting, formulas, data analysis and pivot tables.

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

Ability to communicate effectively orally.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Ability to summarize complex information into simpler forms (such as reports, communication material, email).
Ability to research, integrate and analyze information from various sources.
Ability to organize one’s workload, determine priorities and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.

Demonstrating integrity and respect
Thinking things through
Working effectively with others
Showing initiative and being action-oriented
Attention to detail

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

Experience in presenting information to management

Experience generating financial reports.

Experience in Asset Management and/or Project Management.

Willing and able to travel, travel via small aircraft, vessels, ATVs or snowmobiles
Willing and able to work overtime
Possession of a valid Canadian Driver’s Licence (Class 5) or degree of mobility usually associated with possession of a valid driver’s licence

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status 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

Communication for this process will only be sent via email. As the applicant, it is your responsibility to ensure accurate contact information is provided and that you inform our office via email of any updates as required. Ensure you include an email address you can access from home and that it accepts email from unknown users. You are strongly encouraged to check your email on a regular basis, including your junk mail folder.

An exam may be administered. An interview may be administered. Reference checks may be sought.
All communication relating to this process, including e-mail correspondence and responses to screening questions, may be used in the assessment of qualifications, including the ability to communicate effectively in writing.

If you are currently employed with the Federal Public Service, please let us know by email your current group, level, tenure and the Department you are working for.

All applicants for positions within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will be subject to a thorough security clearance process which includes an interview wherein questions may include (but not limited to), reference checks, previous employment, on-line activities, credit checks, alcohol and/or drug use.

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.