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.
When you apply to this selection process, you are not applying for a specific job, but to an inventory for future vacancies. As positions become available, applicants who meet the qualifications may be contacted for further assessment.
📢 How does this work?
Please note that candidates will only be assessed once, and re-applications to the inventory will not be considered
✅ Step 1: Read the entire advertisement. Want to join our team? Let us know you’re interested! Click “Apply Online”
✅ Step 2: Tell us about yourself! Attach your resume and answer the screening questions in the online application.
↪ Please provide complete and thorough details of your education and experience;
↪ Do not assume that the screening board has any previous knowledge of your background, qualifications, or work history. You must be specific and provide concrete examples/details for each experience element, as applications will be screened only on the information provided;
↪ Failure to provide sufficient information may result in your application being screened out of the process.
✅ Step 3 : We will carefully review all of your qualifications. If your talent matches one of our immediate or upcoming opportunities we may contact you for further information or assessment.
Candidates will be required to submit the following documents later in the process:
✔️Teaching portfolio
✔️Research portfolio
✔️Proof of education (with validation)
✔️List of three references
✔️Samples of the most impactful peer-reviewed publications
If you completed your studies outside of Canada, you must have your credentials recognized by one of the following agencies (These recognized organizations are members of the Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada and are authorized to conduct and validate academic assessments of foreign credentials to meet the Treasury Board of Canada qualification standards for employment in the core public administration):
Comparative Education Service (University of Toronto – School of continuing studies)
International Credential Evaluation Service (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
International Qualifications Assessment Service (Alberta)
Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et Intégration du Québec
International Credential Assessment Service of Canada
World Education Services - Canada
Creating an environment where diverse perspectives are valued begins with self-declaration. Count yourself in and self-declare by identifying to which employment equity group(s) you belong. In order to self-declare, please ensure to indicate this by checking off the appropriate box within the online application as part of the Employment Equity section.
Together, DND and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) form the largest and most complex organization in Canada. DND's role is to provide services and support to the CAF in their operations and missions at home and abroad. DND and the CAF work side-by-side to fulfill the Government of Canada’s mission to defend Canada and Canadians and contribute to international peace, security and stability efforts.
What do we offer?
🍁 At DND we foster a work environment where employees have opportunities to grow, learn, progress in their careers and have job satisfaction over the long-term. You’ll enjoy:
✅ A career among a dynamic and dedicated team
✅ Opportunities for advancement
✅ A diverse, respectful and inclusive work environment
✅ A total benefits package including a competitive salary, health and dental insurance plans, pension plan and a variety of leave entitlements
As with other federal government establishments, the Canadian Forces College is a bilingual working environment, and offers a series of professional military education (PME) programmes at the graduate level primarily for merit-selected officers in the Canadian Armed Forces (and selected international officers and senior executives working in the security sector in relevant government departments). Members of the department, the largest and most interdisciplinary group of security- and defence-related academics in Canada, are a dynamic and highly professional team with a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds and expertise. For more information on the department and current faculty, please visit: https://www.rmcc-cmrc.ca/en/department-defence-studies.
The intent of this process is to establish a pool of partially or fully qualified candidates to meet immediate and future needs, and it may be used to staff identical or similar positions at the Department of National Defence.
Positions to be filled: Number to be determined
Your résumé.
EDUCATION
UT-02 :
Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in a field related to the duties of the position and competence in teaching and research.
UT-03 :
Graduation with a Doctoral degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in a field related to the duties of the position and competence in teaching and/or research
Notes:
1. The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and must have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization.
2. For positions requiring a master’s or doctoral degree, the following alternatives may be accepted when combined with an acceptable bachelor’s degree from a recognized post-secondary institution:
a. Research or scholarly studies constituting a significant contribution to the discipline; or
b. Professional practice recognized for its high quality.
When the educational qualifications are met through one of the alternatives described above, they are met for the position in question only.
EXPERIENCES
EX1: Teaching experience at the university level: having taught university-level courses in at least three (3) of the following fields related to the duties of position:
a. Operational and policy planning processes within government or defence agencies or departments; operational art.
b. Logistics, sustainment and military support operations
c. Change management and organizational behavior
d. Theories and practices of leadership and negotiation
e. Defence economics, institutional management, military industrial production
f. Military or naval history, theories of war, conflict and strategy, relevant to the Canadian Armed Forces.
g. Alliances or coalition building.
h. Research methods
i. Offensive and defensive cyber operations and cyber security
j. Emerging Technologies and warfare
k. Information operations or hybrid warfare
l. Intelligence studies or Adversarial threat analysis
m. Space as a domain of conflict or space law
n. War gaming
o. Security and governance challenges and historical legacies of conflict in one or more of these areas:
↪ Asia-Pacific or Indo-Pacific
↪ Russia and Eurasia
↪ The Americas
↪ The Arctic or Circumpolar regions
p. Contemporary and transnational security challenges, e.g.
↪ Climate change
↪ Sub-state violence and civil conflict
↪ Post-conflict governance and state building
EX2: Research experience at the university level in at least three (3) of the teaching fields related to the position listed above (see EX1).
EX3: Experience, including professional experience that would demonstrate evidence of significant scholarly merit* potential and evidence of service** with professional military education (PME) institution or with mature adult learners.
EX4: Experience supervising senior undergraduate theses or graduate level directed projects and papers.
▶ In addition to EX1-EX4, Associate Professor (UT03) positions require the following:
EX5: Experience that would demonstrate effective teaching at the graduate or professional level in the fields related to the position listed above (see EX1). As demonstrated through a teaching dossier or similar instrument.
EX6: Experience that would demonstrate independent scholarly merit* in minimum two (2) fields related to the position mentioned listed (see EX1).
EX7: Experience in academic administration; or otherwise demonstrate leadership experience or experience managing human resources.
* Scholarly merit is defined as publishing in referred journals or academic presses in the fields related to the position listed above (see EX1).
** Service is defined as for example, contribution to various committees or activities promoting the well-being of students as well as the success and development of an educational institution (particularly a small institution), participation in the organization of a conference, evaluation of scientific articles and other elements related to the academic community.
Various language requirements
Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB, CBC/CBC ,CCC/CCC and CCP/CCP
English Essential
French Essential
Information on language requirements
COMPETENCIES
C1. Demonstrating integrity and respect
C2. Thinking things through
C3. Showing initiative and being action-oriented
C4. Working effectively with others
C5. Communication
ABILITIES
Ability to work with demanding deadlines
Ability to work in a collaborative design environment
ASSET QUALIFICATIONS - EDUCATION
AED1 : Graduation with a Doctoral degree such as a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy), a DPhil ((Doctor of Philosophy)) or a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in a field related to the duties of the position and competence in teaching and/or research.
AED2 : Graduation with a master’s degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in a field related to the duties of the position and competence in teaching and/or research.
ASSET QUALIFICATIONS-EXPERIENCES
AEX1: Teaching experience at the graduate level or at a relevant professional school.
AEX2: Experience teaching in a professional military education institution or teaching professional adult learners in at least one of the fields related to the position listed above (see EX1).
AEX3: Experience designing innovative teaching methodologies, e.g. case studies, simulations, wargaming.
AEX4: Experience implementing innovative teaching methodologies.
AEX5: Experience with curriculum design and development in a professional team-based context (e.g. professional military education institution).
AEX6: Graduation from the CFC (Canadian Forces College) or an allied equivalent at either the Joint Command and Staff Program or National Security Program.
Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women
Information on employment equity
ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
The Department of National Defence is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive team that reflects Canada's population. To achieve a representative workforce, selection may be based on qualified candidates self-declaring as belonging to one or more of the following EE designated groups: Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, women, and visible minorities.
We encourage you to indicate if you belong to one or more of the designated groups when you apply
↪ In support of Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE) initiative #24, consideration may be given to the spouses or common-law partners of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members.
Reliability Status security clearance
National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces Values and Ethics Code, Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector, Directive on Conflict of Interest and Defence Administrative Orders and Directives (DAOD) 7021-1, Conflict of Interest.
Other conditions of employment may be required for some positions. These conditions will be communicated to the candidates considered for that specific appointment. They may include :
Ability and willingness to travel as part of teaching responsibilities
Ability and willingness to work flexible hours
Ability and willingness to work in-person on site at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto
Ability and willingness to work collegially in a collaborative work environment.
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
▶ Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.
▶ Our organization will only accept on-line applications for this opportunity. Please click “Apply online” to submit your application. If there are limitations or special circumstances preventing you from submitting your application via the GC Jobs online portal, you must contact us and receive approval to apply via an alternate means PRIOR to the closing date.
▶ Depending on the position being staffed:
↪ Additional qualifications, operational requirements and/or conditions of employment may be required
↪ Varying degrees of breadth and depth of experience may be deemed essential
↪ Asset qualifications may be invoked as essential qualifications
↪ You may be contacted and asked to submit information or be further assessed
▶ A variety of assessment tools may be used. This may include application screening, interviews, role play scenarios, written assessments, reference checks, board knowledge, interactions with internal staff during the process, etc.
▶ Top down selection may be used during any stage of the selection process.
↪ Please note that achieving the pass mark on any of the assessments used does not mean you will move forward in the selection process. Management may decide to use a score that is higher than the pass mark on any of the evaluations used throughout the selection process. Management may also decide to use top-down selection at any stage of the process.
▶ Appointment decisions may be based on one or more of the following criteria:
↪ Matching of the individual's experience or qualifications to the strengths and weaknesses of the work team;
↪ Matching of the individual's experience or qualifications to the specific duties of the position being staffed;
↪ Depth, breadth, type of work-specific experience;
↪ Level/degree of one or more competencies/qualifications;
↪ Organizational Needs.
▶ Applicants who apply to this selection process must include in their application a valid email address and make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users.
▶ All information obtained throughout the selection process, from the time of application to close of process, may be used to evaluate the applicants. Your overall conduct and communications, including email correspondence, may be used in the assessment of qualifications and competencies.
▶ If, at any point in this process or upon qualifying in this process, your Values and Ethics do not align with that of the Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces Code of Values and Ethics and Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector, you will be eliminated from this process.
Copy and paste these links in your browser for more information:
- https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/benefits-military/defence-ethics/policies-publications/code-value-ethics.html
- https://www.tbs-sct.canada.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=25049
- https://www.tbs-sct.canada.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=25049
- https://www.tbs-sct.canada.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=32627
▶ To ensure the integrity of the selection process, the content and questions of the assessment must remain confidential. Please do not discuss or share the assessment content with anyone, including other candidates. You must complete the assessment, including screening questions, by yourself, without the help of others, including the use of unapproved internet resources and artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT or any other forms of artificial intelligence). Plagiarism and the use of artificial intelligence is strictly prohibited throughout the entire process and suspected non-compliance will be investigated. Any violation may result in potential consequences which could include your elimination from this selection process.
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.