Senior Protocol Officer

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

Giving you the best chance to succeed! Applications for employment must be submitted ONLINE in the Public Service Resourcing System. You must provide responses to screening questions and your résumé. Applicants will not be solicited for incomplete or missing information.

Persons who are unable to apply on-line must contact prior to the closing date.

Duties

Under the direction of the Chief of Event Management and Protocol Services, the Senior Protocol Officers plans and manages protocol and logistical arrangements including the providing of hospitality services for all Supreme Court of Canada official events including delegations and dignitaries visiting the Supreme Court.

Work environment

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) is Canada’s final court of appeal. The SCC is a bilingual institution that hears cases in French and English, in all areas of the law, such as family, criminal, and tax law. It decides cases from Canada’s two major legal traditions, common and civil law. Its decisions affect the lives of all Canadians. The SCC recognizes that a key element necessary in achieving and retaining a representative workforce is providing a supportive work environment and fostering a corporate culture that is welcoming to all employees, including designated group members. According to the most recent public service employee surveys, the SCC is one of the best places to work in the federal public service. Given that the SCC is not served by Pay Centre, it has its own compensation team responsible for administering the full range of pay and benefits transactions in Phoenix and MyGCHR.

Intent of the process

The intent of this process is to immediately staff one (1) Bilingual Imperative CCB/CCB position.

* WRITTEN COMMUNICATION will be assessed through your application and throughout the staffing process. Therefore, communication needs to be grammatically correct, with appropriate vocabulary and minimal errors in punctuation and spelling. As a result, please use complete sentences.

Candidates already at level (or equivalent) and who meet the essential criteria, may be considered for a deployment.

This process may also be used to create a partially or fully qualified pool of candidates and may be used to staff future vacancies for identical or similar positions (indeterminate, deployment, specified period appointment, acting, assignment or secondment) where the linguistic profile, tenure and security clearance 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:
Post-secondary diploma, or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
Experience in planning and co-ordinating programs and scenarios for events.
Experience organizing logistics for events.
Experience in providing financial services such as: preparing and monitoring budgets, monitoring expenditures and invoices.
Experience in providing advice to senior officials.

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

EXPERIENCE:
Experience in planning and co-ordinating programs and scenarios for official visits.

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

Bilingual - Imperative (CCB/CCB)

Information on language requirements

ABILITIES:
Ability to communicate effectively orally.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Ability to prepare budgets, such as for official visits and events, including monitoring expenditures and invoices against budgets.
Ability to develop programs and scenarios for official visits or events.
Ability to work under pressure.

PERSONAL SUITABILITIES:
Attention to detail
Effective interpersonal relationships
Initiative
Reliability

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

KNOWLEDGE:
Knowledge of the role and responsibilities of the Chief Justice of Canada and Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
This position requires you to work on-site at the Supreme Court of Canada, 301 Wellington Street, in Ottawa.
Overtime: There is a requirement to sometime work overtime including evenings and some weekends, sometimes on short notice.

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

A random and/or top-down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

You must be prepared to provide the original or a certified true copy of your educational credentials. Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at www.cicic.ca/indexe.stm.

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

All communication and information obtained throughout the selection process, from the time of application to the close of process, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

Our intention is to communicate with candidates via email. Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and to make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is the candidate’s responsibility to provide any changes to their personal information to the contact indicated on this job advertisement.

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.