Work environment🏢 Please note that this position requires a physical presence within the federal institution five days a week. Virtual employment will not be considered.
📍 The positions are located at Grande Cache Institution, a federal correctional institution where ongoing contact with federally sentenced inmates may be necessary.
📍 Grande Cache Institution is a medium security correctional facility, located 1.6 km south of the Hamlet of Grande Cache, AB in the Municipal District of Greenview, approximately 445 km west of Edmonton, Alberta.
📍 The overall layout of Grande Cache Institution is an open, circular design, centered around an inner courtyard. Offenders are housed in ten medium security living units, with one area designated for restricted movement cells.
📍 Grande Cache is located in the northern part of the Rocky Mountains, in western Alberta and offers outdoor adventure and a relaxed lifestyle with a short commute to work (5 or under km) !
Points of Interest:
🏞️ Jasper National Park (https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ab/jasper)
🐐 Hamlet of Grande Cache with state of the art facilities (recreation centre)
🏃 Canadian Death Race
🌄 Passport to the Peaks Program
🎣 Paradise for other outdoor activities - hunting, fishing, quad, golfing, snowshoeing, skiing, ice fishing, paddling, local hiking trails, etc.
🐻 Alberta Parks (Wilmore Wilderness Park, Pierre Grey’s Lakes Provincial Park, William A. Switzer Provincial Park) and other campgrounds and day use areas.
Important messages
ℹ️ Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language(s) of their choice.
📧 Monitor Your Email Regularly 📧
All communication related to this process, including requests for additional information, invitations, and assessments, will be sent by email. Candidates will be given limited time to respond. Failure to respond within the specified timeframe may result in your application no longer being considered.
You must provide a valid email address and monitor it regularly throughout the selection process, including your junk/spam folders. It is your responsibility to ensure your email address and contact information remain current.
⚠️ We encourage you to provide a personal email address so we can contact you if you are away from work.
Candidates must submit their application through the online system available on GC Jobs. Applications submitted by any other means will not be accepted. If you are unable to submit your application through the PSRS online portal due to limitations or exceptional circumstances, you must contact us and obtain approval to apply through an alternate method before the closing date.
💡 Tips for Completing Your Application 💡
We want to help you succeed. To move forward in the staffing process, you must clearly demonstrate how you meet each requirement.
◾ Be specific. Explain what you did, where you gained the experience, and when it occurred. Providing complete and detailed answers will help ensure your qualifications are fully considered.
◾ We recommend saving your answers in a text editing software, and copy-paste them into your job application.
◾ Save periodically to avoid losing your work should you encounter a connection problem. Also, if you close your browser without saving first, the system will not save your work and you will lose your information.
✏️ Candidates must clearly demonstrate in their responses that they meet the essential education and experience qualifications. It is NOT sufficient to only state that the qualifications are met or to provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Rather you must clearly demonstrate HOW and WHERE the qualification was met through substantiation by examples. Information on your described skills, experience, etc. provided in the screening questions should be supported by your resume.
✏️ Failure to provide sufficient information will result in the candidate being screened out and rejected from the process.
✏️ You must meet all essential qualifications in order to be appointed to the position. Other qualifications may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. Some essential and other qualifications 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.
📋Screening Stage: A random, top-down, or other volume management method may be applied at any stage to determine which candidates move forward in the assessment process.
📋We may assess the essential and asset qualifications using interviews, written tests (take home assignments or other), references or a combination of these or other assessment methods.
📌In addition to the assessment of qualifications based on information contained in your application, we anticipate assessments to occur between November 2, 2026 to December 31, 2026.