Senior Staffing Consultant

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada requires professional services resources with the experience and skill-sets required to support the human resources requirements of managers and executives within the Information Systems Branch (ISB.) This includes the timely operational support to augment organizational capacity in order to complete necessary Human Resources (HR) planning, staffing and resourcing processes. The resulting contract will provide a Branch-wide contracting vehicle that all ISB Directorates can access to support operational staffing activity on an as-and-when-required basis.

Mandatory requirements

• Experience on four (4) projects providing advice and guidance for:
  • Different types of merit criteria/qualifications;
  • Appropriate sequencing and application of merit criteria; and
  • Staffing and recruitment challenges.
• Must be able to provide Client References for 2 different completed projects demonstrating experience in the following:
  • Development of Statements of Merit Criteria,
  • Development of posters, and
  • Implementation of assessment process, resulting in in the successful identification of a candidate or establishment of a pool of qualified candidates.

Optional requirements

• Experience managing multiple, concurrent, and often overlapping staffing processes, including the following activities:
  • Preparing assessment materials for candidate assessments;
  • Conducting interviews and reference checks; and
  • Assessing written exams.
• Experience providing staffing support to staffing processes, including the following activities:
  • Preparing a Statement of Merit Criteria (SOMC);
  • Preparing posters and advertising tools;
  • Preparing assessment tools (i.e., Master rating Guide);
  • Marking exams; and
  • Conducting interviews and reference checks.
• Experience in:
  • Providing advice on the effectiveness of assessment instruments; and
  • Assisting in development or choice of proper instruments.
• Experience planning, developing, coordinating, and administrating various staffing and staffing related initiatives, including:
  • Collective staffing; and
  • Specific targeted Recruitment initiatives.
• Experience providing advice and guidance to senior management (director level or above) on planning and staffing strategies under the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA).
• Bilingual

General tasks

• Developing staffing and resourcing strategies and plans;
• Providing advice and guidance on different types of merit criteria/qualifications;
• Providing advice and guidance to senior management on planning and staffing strategies under the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA);
• Screening candidate applications and conducting reference checks;
• Designing solid assessment tools/templates that work and that are re-usable;
• Developing assessment tools that mirror the position work descriptions and job expectations to ensure best-fit candidate selection;
• Identifying links with departmental human resources/employment equity/business plans;
• Providing advice on effectiveness of assessment instruments and assisting in development or choice of proper instruments;
• Assisting manager(s) in appropriate sequencing and application of merit criteria;
• Creating branch staffing report(s) including preparation, data gathering, interviews, and monitoring staffing report and various activities;
• Reviewing organizational needs and business needs to assist in the identification of the appropriate staffing strategy or plans (including links to other plans such as the Employment Equity and Diversity Plan and the Official Languages Plan);
• Providing advice and recommendations concerning the addressment of staffing and recruitment challenges and the consideration of organizational strategies and plans;
• Developing and implementing recruitment and employment strategies;
• Providing advice and recommendations in selecting the choice of appointment process;
• Preparing and conducting recruitment and staffing processes to support management. This may include any or any grouping of the following activities:
  o Making recommendations on the staffing process type to be undertaken;
  o Drafting and finalizing the statement of merit criteria;
  o Developing and preparing the assessment guide, tools, and process;
  o Drafting and finalizing the advertisements;
  o Coordinating and participating in the assessment of priorities, and the screening and assessments of candidates;
  o Coordinating and administrating tests, interviews; coordinating and completing the reference check etc.; and
  o Compiling and preparing the final board reports and finalizing the results of the processes (such as establishing pools of candidates).
• Planning, developing, coordinating and administrating various staffing and staffing related initiatives such as job fairs, collective staffing and targeted Recruitment initiatives;
• Providing operational staffing services to a group of client managers;
• Advising managers and employees on staffing policies and procedures;
• Providing mentoring, tutoring or coaching assistance;
• Coaching Managers on how to plan and implement the various phases of a staffing process; and
• Incorporating lessons learned aimed at continuous improvement for an organization.