Director General, National Recruitment Directorate

Duties
The Public Service Commission of Canada safeguards merit-based, non-partisan hiring and helps build the talented, representative and future-ready public service Canada needs. At a time of rapid technological change, evolving labour-market pressures and intense competition for skills, its National Recruitment Directorate is critical to ensuring federal organizations can attract and connect with talent from across Canada. As its leader, the Director General will help shape the future of public-service talent: modernizing recruitment models, harnessing emerging practices and technologies, and building partnerships that deliver better experiences and results for candidates and hiring organizations. This is an opportunity for an accomplished leader to drive consequential, government-wide change and strengthen how the public service recruits the people who serve Canadians.

Work environment
At the Public Service Commission of Canada, we foster a healthy, modern, diverse and inclusive workplace.Employees are required to work on site in accordance with the Government of Canada and organizational direction on prescribed presence in the workplace.

Intent of the process
The intent of this process is to staff one (1) position on an indeterminate basis, at 22 Eddy Street in Gatineau (QC).A pool of qualified candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar positions within the PSC.

Positions to be filled
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Secret security clearance

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• Willingness and ability to travel within Canada, including to regional and Northern locations, as required.
• Willingness and ability to work flexible hours and represent the Public Service Commission at senior-level engagements, as required.

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• Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution.

• Within or for a complex organization*, significant** experience serving as an executive with organizational-level accountability for workforce strategy or recruitment and talent acquisition, or leading significant organizational or service transformation in these or closely related areas.
• Experience defining a compelling future state and translating it into implemented changes, services or solutions that respond to evolving talent and workforce needs.
• Experience providing candid strategic advice and clear recommendations to senior decision-makers*** on complex, sensitive or high-impact issues.
• Experience providing executive leadership through ambiguity and change, including setting priorities, building organizational capacity, and stewarding significant human and financial resources to achieve results. Definitions:
* A complex organization is defined as a large-scale organization with more than five hundred (500) employees distributed across multiple regions and/or countries, comprising diverse employee groups, functions, and hierarchical levels, and whose management requires the coordination of activities in varied operational and regulatory environments.
** Significant experience is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally associated with performing a wide range of diverse related activities, typically acquired over a period of at least five (5) years.
*** Senior decision-makers are individuals in senior executive or equivalent leadership roles who have the authority to make or significantly influence important organizational decisions.

• Knowledge of the economic, demographic, technological, and social factors shaping the Canadian labour market, and of their impacts on attracting and engaging diverse, hard-to-reach, and highly sought-after talent.
• Knowledge of the opportunities, risks, and strategic considerations associated with the use of data, digital technologies, and innovative approaches to transform recruitment and improve organizational outcomes.

• Create Vision and Strategy
• Mobilize People
• Uphold Integrity and Respect
• Collaborate with Partners and Stakeholders
• Promote Innovation and Guide Change
• Achieve Results
• Oral and written communication

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Applied / assessed at a later date

Bilingual - Imperative (CBC/CBC)

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• Experience designing or scaling organization or enterprise-wide talent pipelines, common recruitment services, talent marketplaces or candidate-centred digital services.
• Experience building and sustaining partnerships across organizational and sectoral boundaries, including with public, private, academic, not-for-profit or community partners, to address complex workforce challenges and deliver shared outcomes.
• Experience applying behavioural science, marketing, analytics or emerging technologies to improve how an organization attracts and recruits scarce or hard-to-reach talent, in or for a public-sector institution.

Organizational needs may be used to support a leadership cadre and workforce that reflect the diversity of Canada.

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Preference will be given to veterans first, followed by Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of jobs located in Nunavut or Yukon. For positions located in Nunavut, qualified Inuit enrolled under the Nunavut Agreement will be appointed first. For positions located in Yukon, qualified Yukon First Nations will be appointed first, followed by qualified Indigenous persons.

Learn more about preference to veterans.

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