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Attention storytellers!
Parks Canada is seeking candidates to fill frontline positions at Batoche and Motherwell Homestead National Historic Sites. Do you have a passion for history, culture, performing arts, and public education? Join our team of interpreters and frontline staff to make a difference!
We are seeking leaders who can inspire audiences with their enthusiasm for history and culture, provide orientation services, maintain sanitation and cleanliness of facilities, lead guided tours, love the outdoors, and serve to meet the needs of any who visit our sites.
You will help visitors connect with Parks Canada and the past by:
• Shaping the visitor experience
• Making connections between the past and the present
• Having conversations that foster understanding and appreciation of heritage and history
• Maintaining the cleanliness of our facilities, as well as Canada’s cultural and historic artifacts
• Delivering programming for visitors that is informed, dynamic, and entertaining
• Provide a space for dialogue on the frontlines of Canada’s efforts towards reconciliation.
Positions to be filled: Number to be determined
Your résumé.
A secondary school (high school) diploma or PSC approved alternatives or acceptable combination of education, training, experience, or traditional knowledge relevant to position.
Various language requirements
English Essential and/or Bilingual Imperative (--B/--B)
Information on language requirements
COMPETENCIES:
Demonstrating integrity & respect
Thinking things through
Working effectively with others
Makes things happen
Sharing our vision
ABILITIES:
Communicates effectively
Experience delivering presentations to diverse groups (children, school groups, new Canadians etc.)
Experience with program development or creative activity planning.
Experience working with Indigenous partners.
Experience handling cash/working with a Point of Sale (POS).
Experience in theatre/performing arts, heritage interpretation, adult education, museum.
Experience providing cleaning services.
Knowledge of local indigenous language, history, traditions, and culture.
In support of achieving a diversified workforce, consideration may be given to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one or more of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, Visible Minorities, Women and Persons with Disabilities.
Information on employment equity
OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Willingness to wear a Parks Canada uniform.
Willingness to work irregular hours, overtime, weekends and/or statutory holidays.
Willingness to work and/or travel in varied terrain, weather conditions, isolated locations and by various means of transportation.
Reliability Status security clearance - Obtain and maintain Reliability Status Clearance.
Obtain and maintain valid class 5 driver’s license or equivalent throughout your employment.
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
The Parks Canada Agency is established as a separate employer in the Federal Public Service under the Financial Administration Act. Persons appointed to the Agency continue to be part of the Public Service. The Parks Canada Agency operates under its own human resources framework outside of the Public Service Employment Act and in line with values of fairness, competence and respect, and its operating principles.
In accordance with paragraph 8(2)(a) of the Privacy Act, information or material, whether provided directly by the candidate or otherwise obtained by the selection board, used during the selection process for the purpose of assessing a candidate may be used as part of the selection review and recourse processes. Such relevant information may be provided to third parties, such as other candidates or their representatives, who have a legitimate reason to be aware of that information.
Persons who have a priority entitlement as defined by the Parks Canada Agency Priority Policy and Guidelines will be considered first.
Persons who have received pay in lieu of unfulfilled surplus period, a Transition Support Measure (TSM) or an Educational Allowance and are re-appointed to the Parks Canada Agency are required to reimburse an amount corresponding to the period from the effective date of such reappointment or hiring, to the end of the original period for which the TSM and education allowance was paid. Please contact Raeanne Kurtz, Human Resources Manager if you are one of these individuals to find out how this applies to your particular situation.
Persons who are in receipt of a Canadian Government Public Service pension and are considering this employment opportunity with the Parks Canada Agency, should contact the PWGSC Public Service Pension Centre (1-800-561-7930) in order to determine the impact of an appointment on their pension benefit entitlements.
Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.
We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.