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✔️ Leads the development and implementation of projects or initiatives, business and strategic planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting processes. Analyzes and synthesizes data, coordinates input and feedback into plans, and presents strategic advice and recommendations to senior management.
✔️ Liaises with Region and Headquarters to identify strategic context, priorities, and opportunities. Promotes alignment with priorities identified by First Nation governments.
✔️ Provides strategic oversight and operational coordination for the intake and resolution of information and privacy requests, both formal and informal, ensuring alignment with legislative requirements, court orders, and organizational policies. Collaborates across Region and Headquarters to interpret and apply relevant frameworks consistently and effectively.
CIRNAC provides you with the tools you need to develop valuable skills that will promote your future success, with opportunities to achieve organizational, professional and personal goals in a respectful and inclusive workplace, mobilized and supported by leadership at all levels.
The Federal Public Service has adopted a common hybrid work model that will see employees work on site at least 3 days each week, or 60% of their regular schedule. A part-time telework agreement may be discussed and implemented at the time of hiring in accordance with the operational needs of the positions to be filled.
The Federal Public Service offers competitive rates of pay, benefits, pension packages and flexible work schedules that promote work-life balance.
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For more information on what the Government of Canada has to offer as an employer, read the Top 10 Reasons to Join Canada’s Public Service!
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📢 The immediate intent of the process is to staff indeterminately one position at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
A pool of partially qualified candidates may be established, which could be used to staff temporary, and/or permanent positions, with similar qualifications, various linguistic profiles, various security requirements, and/or various tenures at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, within the Yukon Region. Conditions of employment may vary according to the positions to be staffed.
⚠️ Candidate information will not be shared with federal departments outside Yukon to fill vacancies elsewhere across Canada.
Positions to be filled: 1
Your résumé.
👉 The following criteria will be assessed using your resume and the online screening questions. Your resume alone is not sufficient; the assessment of the criteria mentioned below is based primarily on your answers to the online questions. To be selected, you must imperatively demonstrate when, where and how you acquired each of the qualifications by giving concrete examples.
EDUCATION
• A secondary school diploma or an employer-approved alternative, such as an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.
📢 If you were educated outside of Canada, you must provide proof of your certificates and/or diplomas are comparable to Canadian education standards. This proof is essential for candidates who will be qualified for this process. Consult the link below for more information.
EXPERIENCE
• Experience leading, coordinating and managing projects or initiatives, program delivery, and management of strategic plans
• Experience working collaboratively with internal teams, managers and directors on strategic priorities, and be able to provide strategic advice and recommendations to senior management on complex issues*.
• Experience working in collaboration with Indigenous stakeholders.
* Complex issues are defined as involving at least two (2) of the following criteria: multi-year or multi-phase, sensitive or high profile, multiple stakeholders or jurisdictions, and competing objectives or priorities.
👉 The following criteria will be assessed using your resume and online screening questions. They are asset qualifications; preference could be given to those who meet them.
ASSET QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience working for or in partnership with an Indigenous organization.
• Experience working in program delivery.
• Experience in the administration of funding agreements.
• Experience in the development or management of strategic plans.
• Experience working in northern or cross-cultural environments.
• Experience leading a team or an interdisciplinary group.
English essential
Information on language requirements
👉 The following criteria are essential for the job, but assessed later using different assessment methods (written exam, interview, reference check, etc.).
ABILITIES
• Ability to effectively communicate orally
• Ability to effectively communicate in writing
• Ability to manage workload under tight deadlines
• Ability to synthesize information, present analysis, and provide strategic advice and recommendations
👉 The following criteria are essential for the job, but assessed later using different assessment methods (written exam, interview, reference check, etc.).
PERSONAL SUITABILITY
• Demonstrating integrity and respect
• Thinking things through
• Working effectively with others
• Showing initiative and being action-oriented
• Adaptability
• Attention to detail
ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada is committed in having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population its serve. In support of our strategy to achieve our employment equity goals, preference may be given to candidates who, at the time of application, indicate that they are belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups (self-declaration): Indigenous peoples, Women, Visible Minorities and Persons with Disabilities.
OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Willing and able to work overtime on short notice, when required
• Willing and able to travel, when required.
• Secret clearance
• Medical Clearance *
*The incumbent and his/her dependants** may be required to obtain Health Canada medical clearance in accordance with the Isolated Post and Government Housing Directive. (**) = includes incumbent’s spouse or common-law partner and children.
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
1. Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence to answer questions at any stage of this process is strictly prohibited. If such use were proven, you would automatically be eliminated from the process.
2. You will be required to complete an online questionnaire when you apply. You must respond to all statements in all categories in order to proceed to the next steps. You must indicate "NO" if you do not have experience in performing a task related to a specific field.
3. All applications must be submitted online through GC Jobs. Do not email or mail any applications. No acknowledgement of receipt will be sent for your request. We will contact you as soon as the screening process is completed.
4. You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Some essential and other qualifications (assets) will be assessed through your application. It is your responsibility to provide appropriate examples that illustrate how you meet each qualification. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.
5. Candidates are strongly encouraged to indicate if they meet any of the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed. Meeting one or many of the asset qualifications may be a deciding factor in appointing a particular candidate amongst the qualified candidates. Please note that one, some or all of the asset qualifications could be used at any stage of the staffing process.
6. Communication for this process will be sent via email. Candidates who apply to this selection process should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). If your primary communication email address or your status changes during the process, it is your responsibility to update your personal information in GC Jobs application, as well as to inform the Hiring Manager of the process by contacting the generic address:
7. Online assessments may be scheduled, and applicants will be invited to participate in these assessments via email. Applicants MUST make themselves available within the time span of the testing phase. The written/online exam MAY be administered outside of regular working hours including evenings and weekends.
8. Applicants are entitled to participate in the staffing process in the official language of their choice and are required to indicate their preferred official language in their application profile.
9. The GC Jobs system will time out after 60 minutes which may result in your inability to save your work or loss of data. It is recommended that you draft all responses as well as your CV/résumé in another document on your PC that can be saved (e.g., in MS Word or WordPerfect) and copy/paste into the GC Jobs system when completed. CIRNAC is not responsible for system problems, which may result in loss or data and/or incomplete or non-submitted applications.
10. CIRNAC is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise CIRNAC in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.
11. Depending on the number of applicants, CIRNAC needs and HR plans, volume management strategies such as random selection, application of one (1) or more assets, top-down approach, and/or cut-off scores MAY be used for the purpose of managing applications/candidates.
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❔ Frequently Asked Questions
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• My personal information has changed, what should I do?
Simply update them in the "Personal Information" section, in the "My Job File" menu of your account. If your contact information changes, please write to us at . This will ensure that you receive communications in the right place, at the right time.
• I have a disability that does not allow me to apply online, who do I contact to help me with the submission of my job application?
You can contact an Officer at the Federal Public Service Job Advertisement Information Line by calling 1-800-645-5605.
• Who can I contact if I have technical difficulties with the GC Jobs website?
You can contact the Public Service Commission of Canada's support centre by selecting the "Contact Us" link below, in the left corner of this window, or by calling 1-888-780-4444.
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.