AS-05 Regional Chaplain (Stream 1) // AS-05 Senior Project Officer (Stream 2)

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

❗❗IMPORTANT MESSAGE❗❗:

Candidates who advance past screening for stream 1 will be required to provide 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 / standing in a Canadian religious community.

📢IMPORTANT NOTES FOR ANSWERING SCREENING QUESTIONS📢

→ You are responsible for explaining how you meet the qualifications by giving clear and concrete examples in your answers to each question.

→ It is NOT enough to only state that you meet the criterion by listing responsibilities or activities, by answering in point form, by copying & pasting from your résumé or by simply saying “refer to my résumé/ previous answer(s)”. If you do not provide enough information, we may screen you out of the selection process.

→ For each question, you MUST clearly show and support that you meet the qualification by writing one (1) to two (2) paragraph(s).

→ When evaluating your answers, we cannot make any guesses about your experience.

→ We will not contact you to get more information or to clarify your answers during the screening phase.

→ We will only use your résumé as a secondary source to confirm what you wrote in your answers. Please include dates, departments/organisations, and position titles for each job listed.

→ YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO USE EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE (e.g., artificial intelligence, consulting your colleagues, managers, friends, etc.); however, you may consult the Internet and other relevant documents throughout this exercise. You may NOT copy and paste information from any source unless you cite the source as part of your rationale for addressing the scenario. YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE WRITTEN IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

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We are committed to maintaining a diverse, inclusive and barrier-free work environment. Having a strong and diverse workforce is one of our goals.

We strive to establish bias-free selection and assessment practices that offer a level playing field for everyone including candidates from employment equity or equity-seeking groups, such as Indigenous peoples, racialized groups, persons with disabilities, members of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community, Religious minorities and women.
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Duties

⭐AS-05 SENIOR PROJECT OFFICER⭐

Role Overview: Senior Project Officer
The Senior Project Officer supports the strategic alignment and continuous improvement of chaplaincy services. The role involves analysis, documentation, and collaboration to ensure services reflect departmental priorities and meet institutional needs.
Key Responsibilities:

• Service Alignment:
Analyze contractor and departmental reports to ensure chaplaincy services align with unit strategies.

• Strategic Analysis:
Review policies to guide service planning and decision-making.

• Documentation:
Prepare briefing notes, reports, and strategic documents to support operations and planning.

• Advisory Role:
Provide guidance on chaplaincy issues, service evaluations, and policy alignment.

Evaluation and Innovation:
Contribute to program evaluations and support initiatives that improve and innovate spiritual care services for offenders.

⭐AS-05 REGIONAL CHAPLAIN⭐

Role Overview: Regional Chaplains guide chaplaincy services in both community and institutional settings. They provide important advice about spiritual services and policies.

Key Responsibilities:
• Service Delivery Advice: Provide advice on chaplaincy services.

• Policy Advice: Assist sites to implement policies, such as facilitation of religious observance, including safety concerns, and religious accommodations.

• Collaboration: Work with contractors and managers to implement annual service plans and provide operational support.

• Site Visits: Plan and lead visits to institutions to review quality of services.
• Meetings: Organize regional chaplaincy meetings and share best practices.

Work environment

Working within a community of practice for the administration of chaplaincy services for offenders in the care and custody of CSC, we are a bilingual, religiously diverse team where the national manager (supervisor) may not be in the same locale and colleagues are dispersed throughout the country. Although there is a requirement to occasionally visit institutions or parole offices, the position does not normally require direct, regular contact with offenders.
Approximately 90% of the work is undertaken at a desk in an office space in front of a computer.

*Regional Chaplains report nationally without immediate team members with them in the regional offices.

Intent of the process

📌A pool of qualified candidates (fully assessed or partially assessed) may be established and may be used to staff similar positions at this group and level with various language requirements listed in the Language Requirements section.

📌As a result of the potential and possible use of the selection process and subsequent pool by hiring managers, we encourage all candidates seeking this type of opportunity to apply.

📌This process may be used for various tenures (acting appointments, assignment, deployment, indeterminate, specified period, secondment), various security requirements and conditions of employment.

📌The immediate intent of this Job Opportunity is to staff 1 position indeterminately in Laval-Quebec.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

STREAM 1 and STREAM 2:

EDUCATION:
• A secondary school diploma or an acceptable combination of education, training and experience.

Degree equivalency

STREAM 1 and STREAM 2:

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience developing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with stakeholders.
• Experience in project development, implementation and delivery.
• Experience analyzing complex** information, providing advice and making recommendations.


**Complexity refers to situations in which there are few details, information is vague, incomplete, or coming from many sources, or where several levels of consultation or validation are required.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Various language requirements
Bilingual BBB/BBB
Bilingual CBC/CBC
English or French Essential

Information on language requirements

STREAM 1:

OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATION:
• Ordination or equivalent recognition/standing in a Canadian religious community.

STREAM 1 and STREAM 2:
COMPETENCIES:

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

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

STREAM 1 AND STREAM 2 :

EDUCATION
• Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in theology or another discipline relevant to the work of the position.

Degree equivalency

STREAM 2:

OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATION:
• Ordination or equivalent recognition/standing in a Canadian religious community.

STREAM 1 AND STREAM 2:

EXPERIENCE:
• Experience in general pastoral ministry.
• Experience in a correctional setting.
• Experience in faith community consultation or policy development.

STREAM 1 AND STREAM 2:

ABILITIES:
• Ability to use various software programs such as: Excel, Teams, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Power Point.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
• To support employment equity objectives, diversity and inclusion and/or to meet business objectives, selection may be limited to a member of an equity-seeking group.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Willingness and ability to work overtime, sometimes on short notice.
• Willingness and ability to travel within Canada.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance - Reliability Status. This factor is not used at the pre-selection stage. The hiring department is responsible for the security clearance process.

Other information

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

📌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. You must give a substantial example that demonstrates how, when, where the qualification was met. 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.

📌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. Other sources of information (such as performance agreements, work samples, board member knowledge, etc.) may be used to assess the criteria identified on the Statement of Merit Criteria.

📌Please identify clearly for which position(s) you are submitting an application.

📌An assignment, secondment, or acting appointment requires approval of your supervisor.

📌You must be able to provide proof of your education credentials.

📌Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language(s) of their choice.

📌For appointment processes where the area of selection was limited to Aboriginal peoples or to members of designated employment equity groups that included Aboriginal peoples, the Aboriginal candidates proposed for appointment or appointed must complete and sign the Affirmation of Aboriginal Affiliation Form as a condition of appointment prior to or at the same time as the offer of appointment, even if they have already self-declared as an EE member when applying.

📌A random or top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

📌For this selection process, we will communicate with you by email. You must provide a valid email address to which you wish to receive communication regarding this selection process. It is your responsibility to inform of any change of address, telephone number and / or email address. You must ensure to check/view your email accounts including spam, promotion or other folders regularly as there may be a deadline for responses. Candidates who respond past the deadline risk being removed from the selection process.

Preference

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.

Contact information

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