𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗱!
At Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), we are committed to running inclusive and barrier-free recruitment processes.
If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please submit your request through the contact person identified below. All information received related to accommodations is confidential.
For more information: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/services/assessment-accommodation-page.html
The intention is that candidates will be contacted in early October 2024 to notify them if their candidacy had been retained and to make arrangements for the next stage of the assessment.
Please note that only those applicants who meet the essential education and/or experience criteria will be contacted and invited to the next stage of evaluation. We thank all applicants for your interest in this selection process.
What is the function of Real Estate Services team?
Public Services and Procurement Canada’s Real Estate Services team acts as the real estate agent for the Government of Canada in both brokerage and advisory services related to government-owned property. The brokerage related services include the acquisition and disposal of federal real property while the advisory services include indigenous consultation/engagement, heritage consultation and strategic portfolio planning. These services in turn provide our clients with well-conceived, innovative and cost-effective solutions. With a focus on providing high quality, value-added real estate and advisory products and services to our clients, we ensure our projects are completed in a proactive, creative and timely manner.
Responsibilities of the Real Estate Strategic Advisor may include:
• Participating in the development of financial and investment management strategies and plans for presentation to senior management
• Conducting complex socio-economic/financial research and program evaluation as it relates to innovative concepts/approaches to acquisition, disposition or leasing a broad/diverse portfolio of assets.
• Attending meetings with PSPC, Central Agencies and OGDs and making presentations on the economic implications of policies, standards and regulations impacting on specific real property and capital projects.
𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗦𝗣𝗖!
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) helps the Government of Canada serve Canadians. With a strong focus on quality customer service, we provide innovative common services such as real estate and building management, purchasing, banking, pay and pensions, and translation to other government departments, agencies, and boards. By providing these centralized services to departments and agencies, we enable them to focus on what they do best: providing their programs and services to Canadians.
At PSPC, our approach to inclusion is simple: we are committed to achieving a competent and representative workforce that reflects the diversity of the Canadian population we serve, and strive to create a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive environment that enables collaboration and innovation. When you succeed, we all succeed.
The Real Estate Services team is geographically dispersed and leverages technology to stay connected, particularly when we can’t connect in person. Our team works in the office three days a week and enjoys branch teaming days, social events and the opportunity to work hard and get results! In person collaboration helps to solidify our team relationships. Team culture is important with our group and we take a team approach and manage by consensus. Creativity is encouraged and new ideas are celebrated. We take time to reflect on how we get the job done instead of just focusing on the result.
It is anticipated that the initial staffing action will be an indeterminate (permanent) appointment. A pool of qualified candidates will be created and may be used to staff similar positions with various tenures including indeterminate (permanent), and term (temporary), in Vancouver or Victoria within the Department of Public Services and Procurement Canada. Successful candidates who are existing federal employees may be considered for acting opportunities.
Positions to be filled: 2
Your résumé.
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STEP 1: Do you have what it takes?
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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.
• 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 is not sufficient
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🎓 EDUCATION
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Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with an acceptable specialization in economics, sociology or statistics.
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.
• For the purposes of this process, an acceptable specialized is deemed to have been obtained through the completion of four courses.
❗**For more information about this education requirement please refer to the Frequently Asked Questions in the Other Information section below** ❗
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💼 EXPERIENCE
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Experience 1. Experience in real property* portfolio planning or real property investment analysis.
Experience 2. Experience in developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders**.
Experience 3. Experience in preparing analysis and recommendations for Senior Management or stakeholders.
Note*:
*Real property refers to land and anything permanently attached to it.
**For the purposes of this selection process “Stakeholder” is defined as an individual or group outside of your own work unit that has an interest in any decision or activity of an organization, team, project, or policy. This could include local municipalities, provinces, territories, federal departments, Indigenous groups, private developers, financial institutions or non-profit organizations.
OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Willing and able to travel occasionally within Canada or Continental USA
• Occasional travel to work sites/meetings using taxi, shuttle or personal vehicle.
English essential
Information on language requirements
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STEP 2: Show us what you got! The following competencies/abilities will be assessed later and your performance on the assessment in each competency or ability could be used to determine whether you are a good fit for a particular position.
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📝 COMPETENCIES
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1. Demonstrating Integrity and Respect
2. Strategic Thinking
3. Excellence through results
4. Client Service – Level 1
5. Working Effectively with Others
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/corporate/accountability/client-service/competency.html
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📝 ABILITIES
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1. Ability to communicate effectively orally
2. Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
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📖 ASSET QUALIFICATIONS
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📌 Asset qualifications are qualifications that are “nice to haves” but if you don’t have them your application will be considered if we determine that you have all the essential education and experience criteria. If you do have any of the any of the asset criteria listed below ensure that you provide this information when answering the screening questions. Having an asset qualification could be used to determine whether you are a good fit for a particular position.
🎓 ASSET EDUCATION:
Graduation with a degree1 or diploma2 from a recognized post-secondary institution with a specialization in Business Administration, Real Estate or Urban Planning.
1. The term “degree” refers to a baccalaureate as established by educational authorities
2. In this context the term “diploma” refers to a post-secondary qualification from a program of study of a minimum of two (2) years.
🎓 ASSET OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATION:
Possession of a Canadian professional urban planning, finance or account designation.
💼 ASSET EXPERIENCE:
Asset Experience 1. Experience reviewing policies, legislation, publications or economic plans (Examples could include the Treasury Board Directive on the Management of Real Property or Budget 2024 – Canada’s Housing Plan, Bank Quarterly Earnings and Financial Reporting or the Bank of Canada’s Strategic Plan).
Asset Experience 2. Experience negotiating real estate transactions such as acquisitions, disposals or leases.
Asset Experience 3. Experience providing real property services to Government of Canada departments.
In support of achieving a diversified workforce, consideration may be given to candidates, who, at the time of application, self-declare* as belonging to one of the following designated Employment Equity groups: Women, Indigenous (Aboriginal) Peoples, Persons with Disabilities and Members of Visible Minorities.
* We therefore encourage you to self-declare during the online application process by selecting the appropriate box under the Employment Equity section.
For further details, please refer to the “Other information” section.
Information on employment equity
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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
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🔔 Reference checks may be sought.
🔔 An interview may be administered.
🔔 A test may be administered.
💡Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language(s) of their choice.
🔺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 http://www.cicic.ca/indexe.stm.
❗PLEASE NOTE: For this selection process, our intention is to communicate with applicants by e-mail for screening/assessment purposes (including issuing screening results, and sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.
🔺Please note that only those applicants who meet the essential education and/or experience criteria will be contacted and invited to the next stage of evaluation. We thank all applicants for your interest in this selection process.
🔺Depending on the number of applicants, 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. Please note that although you may attain the established pass mark on any of the assessments used in this staffing process, management may decide to use a higher cut off score.
🔺Candidates must obtain the required pass mark for each essential qualification in order to be given further consideration in the selection process.
💡Applicants with disabilities: Should you require a technical aid or an alternative method of assessment to ensure an equitable assessment of your qualifications, please indicate so in your application.
🔺Essential qualifications and asset qualifications may be evaluated against depth and breadth of activities.
🔺Please note that only those applicants who meet the education and experience criteria will be invited to the next stage of evaluation. We thank all applicants for your interest in this selection process.
🔺All information obtained throughout the selection process, from time of application to close of process, may be used to evaluate candidates.
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📌 Frequently Asked Questions - Essential Education (EC qualification) 📌
- Do I have to have a degree?
Yes. You must have a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution
- What if I obtained my degree is from outside of Canada?
If your degree was granted in another country it must be validated against Canadian standards. For more information about foreign credentials please refer to https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/jobs/services/gc-jobs/degree-equivalency.html
- What if I have a major in a subject other than economics, sociology or statistics?
The courses for the required specialization can be taken outside of your major or degree program, but must have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution
- Can my number of courses required for the acceptable specialization be in more than one of the listed fields?
No. Acceptable specialization is defined as an acceptable number of courses in a particular field of study. The required number of courses can not be distributed among the three areas. For example, 3 courses in economics plus 1 courses in statistics would not meet the requirement
- Will you require official transcripts?
Yes. If your application is retained and you are invited to participate in further assessments you will be asked to provide official transcripts to verify that your have completed the required courses.
- What if I don’t have 4 courses in either economics, sociology or statistics?
It is possible that you might meet the required specialization through a combination of education, training and/or experience.
- What is an acceptable combination of education, training &/or experience?
It is having acquired comparable skills or knowledge as someone who has completed the required minimum level of education (4 courses). There is a range of combinations that could meet this requirement. Each situation will be evaluated individually. The hiring manager has the final decision if the described combination meets the requirement.
To meet the acceptable specialization through this alternative you must have at least two of the three criteria: Education and training OR Education and experience; OR Training and experience OR combination of all three (Education and training and experience)
- What is the difference between education and training?
For the purposes of this requirement, education refers to courses taken at a recognized post-secondary institution. Training may be taken through other providers, for example professional organizations (e.g., REIBC, Chartered Professional Accountants British Columbia (CPABC), etc.) or training provided by your employer. If your application is retained and you are invited to participate in further assessments we will request verification of completed training.
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.