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.
All job applications must be submitted through the www.jobs.gc.ca system.
Testing/interviews will be conducted at locations of the employer's choice and may require candidates to travel to the test/interview location, Caraquet, N.B.
Please note that candidates (including persons employed in the Public Service) will not be considered to be in travel status or on government business and travel costs will not be reimbursed. Consequently, candidates will be responsible for travel costs.
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Candidates must meet all essential qualifications to be appointed to a position. This will be determined through the use of various evaluation tools.
Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed.
You must provide proof of education credentials. If you obtained your degree outside Canada, it is your responsibility to demonstrate its equivalence, please take a look at the following link for more information: https://www.cicic.ca
Please identify clearly your substantive group and level and your employment status on your resume and/or application form.
Our means of communication with applicants is via e-mail. Please ensure to include a functional e-mail address, which will accept messages from unknown users (some e-mail systems block these types of e-mails). It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure accurate contact information is provided and updated as required.
**The use of AI is prohibited.
You must complete your application and future assessments independently without external help, including unauthorized internet resources or Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools (for example, Copilot, ChatGPT or any other form of AI).
You may be asked to explain or elaborate on your answers in a follow-up interview.
Any violation may be investigated and result in serious consequences, including the rejection of your application.
Role:
The Community Program Officer designs and implements community-based programs, proactive initiatives and strategies that contribute to the core police role of reassurance policing, prevention and reduction of crime through education, intervention, and sustainable community engagement.
Key duties include:
• Carries out intervention and diversion activities to address risk factors among vulnerable youth and adult offenders in order to prevent recidivism.
• Uses structured interviewing techniques and evidence-based instruments to conduct mental health screening, as well as criminogenic risk screening and assessment.
• Interprets the screening and assessment results for the purpose of developing appropriate interventions and establishing meaningful and proportionate accountability measures according to the level of identified risk.
• Promotes and supports community crime prevention by identifying and recommending evidence based programs and initiatives.
• Delivers education and awareness activities to address various crime and victimization issues.
• Contributes to the RCMP’s partnership with community (local, provincial & federal departments, NGO’s, and First Nations) in order to foster community mobilization and response to crime reduction matters.
• Works with community-based, multi-disciplinary teams to conduct Violence Threat Risk Assessments.
The immediate need is to staff one position on an indeterminate basis, (including acting appointments and deployments).
A pool of qualified candidates may be established to staff temporary and/or permanent positions,(including acting appointments and 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. Information regarding the CM appointment will be sent to all applicable candidates who are within the area of selection and participated in the advertised process.
Positions to be filled: 1
Your résumé.
A secondary school diploma or employer-approved alternatives.
Note:
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.
Candidates who already meet both of the following criteria must be accepted as meeting the secondary school diploma requirement:
a. Candidates who have achieved a satisfactory score on the Public Service Commission test approved as an alternative to a secondary school diploma; and
b. Candidates who have been appointed or deployed for an indeterminate period to a position in the PM classification.
The opportunity to be assessed by at least one of the two employer-approved alternatives must be offered to candidates who have not previously met the secondary school diploma requirement.
Candidates who were appointed or deployed on an indeterminate basis using an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience meet the secondary school requirement for the PM classification only and must be reassessed for entry to other classifications on the basis of this alternative.
Experience delivering programs in partnership with other government departments, non-governmental agencies and/or community groups.
Experience in coordinating and engaging stakeholders in the delivery of community-based initiatives.
Experience providing advice to management and staff for decision-making.
ASSET QUALIFICATIONS
A post-secondary degree from a recognized university or college in the area of social sciences.
ASSET QUALIFICATIONS
Experience conducting client interviews for the purpose of completing and interpreting screening tools.
Experience mobilizing people, organizations and partners.
Bilingual - Imperative (BBC/BBC)
If no candidate meets this requirement, the position may be staffed on a non-imperative basis. Non-bilingual candidates are therefore encouraged to submit their applications.
This position requires proficiency in both official languages, English and French, at the above-noted level. If you do not meet the language requirements of this position and the appointment is being made on a non-imperative basis, you will be exempted by the Public Service Official Languages Exclusion Approval Order from meeting the official language proficiency requirements at the time of an appointment. By accepting an offer, you agree to undertake to attain the level of official language proficiency required for the position, through language training at public expense, within a period of two years. If you do not attain the level of language proficiency required by the end of the two-year period, you agree to be appointed or deployed on an indeterminate basis to a position for which you meet the essential qualifications that is of a similar level and salary as the bilingual position.
Information on language requirements
-Communication (Oral and Written)
-Effective Interpersonal Skills
-Initiative
-Strategic Thinking
-Judgment
Reliability Status security clearance - of the RCMP.
All applicants for positions within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will be subject to a thorough security clearance process, which includes reference checks and an interview wherein questions may include (but are not limited to) previous employment, on-line activities, credit checks, alcohol and/or drug use.
Candidates must be prepared to travel and to work flexible hours (including evenings, weekends) and some overtime when required.
Possession of a valid driver's license.
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
HOW TO APPLY:
You will be required to answer screening questions to demonstrate how you meet the Essential Qualifications (Education and all Essential Experiences).
When answering the screening questions, it is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current or past responsibilities. Rather, you must provide concrete examples of tasks you have accomplished with significant details to explain the WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and HOW you acquired each qualification.
For each experience criteria, please provide the following information:
1- Name of the department or organization where the experience was acquired;
2- Title of the position occupied, group and level and the period(s) in which you performed the functions (M-Y to M-Y);
3- Specific details of tasks or projects demonstrating how the experience was acquired (Situation/Challenge, Tasks, Action and Result).
Should your responses to the screening questions contain insufficient details to demonstrate that you meet the screening criteria, your application will not be given further consideration in this process. Candidates will not be solicited for incomplete or possible missing information.
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.