Job Description

The results of this process will be used to fill the immediate vacancy of Director General, Directorate of Assessment and Analysis (additional details on the position below) and create a pool of qualified candidates. This process may be used to staff future positions with similar qualifications and various tenures including term, acting, assignment and indeterminate.

Who can apply? Persons legally eligible to work in Canada.

The CNSC recognizes the many benefits of providing staff with more flexible work practices and providing employees with more choice about where they do their work. The CNSC's focus is to enable employees to manage their work as part of their life while fostering a culture of inclusion, health and wellbeing and delivering high quality regulatory outcomes for Canadians.

Depending on the nature of the role, CNSC employees can work fully in the office, fully from a telework location or some mix between in-office and from a telework location within Canada.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is committed to creating a respectful, diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome all qualified candidates to apply. If you have a special need that requires accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know.

Preference may be given to candidates who are members of a designated group (i.e., a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a visible minority) to address identified underrepresentation, if applicable. We encourage you to self-identify.

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Closing Date: November 6, 2022, 11:59pm (EST)

Why Work Here?

The CNSC regulates the use of nuclear energy and materials to protect health, safety, security and the environment, to implement Canada's international commitments on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and to disseminate objective scientific, technical and regulatory information to the public.

At the CNSC we develop leadership skills, foster teamwork, and support creativity and innovation. We know it takes people with diverse backgrounds and talents to make this happen. Would our culture match your values?

As the Canadian nuclear regulator, we have a positive impact on the health and safety of Canadians. Our work is important and challenging, we also recognize that people work optimally when work-life balance is supported, therefore, the CSNC offers the benefits of flexible work arrangements and provides a generous benefits package.

Some Executive benefits at a glance include:
- Minimum 20 days of annual leave per year
- Banked Time
- Competitive salary and benefit package
- Performance pay
- Meaningful work

For more information about the CNSC, visit nuclearsafety.gc.ca

What You'll Do:

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and Chief Regulatory Operations Officer or the Vice President Technical Support Branch and Chief Science Officer, you will operate in a complex regulatory environment that is rapidly evolving as new players and technology enter the nuclear industry landscape. You will provide leadership to a scientific, technical and regulatory management team to ensure alignment with CNSC's objectives, while directing the implementation of regulatory licensing, compliance and verification programs or the development and application of specialized technical assessments to support regulatory decision making.

As the ideal candidate, you will bring significant experience leading multidisciplinary teams and a deep understanding of the frameworks and priorities driving the Government of Canada domestic regulatory and energy sector agenda. You are known for your strategic ability to articulate purpose, rally support, and operationalize a vision. Highly collaborative, you are able to work across organizational boundaries and transform scientific, technical and regulatory information to ensure sound regulatory decision making in support of CNSC's mandate. Your credibility is derived from your ability to form trusting relationships with industry, university and government partners, the private sector, and other regulatory bodies internationally. You have experience presenting information to a wide variety of audiences, from the general public, to tribunals and other oversight and decision making bodies.

The Director General of the Directorate of Assessment and Analysis is accountable for providing leadership and direction to seven divisions that provide regulatory leadership and expertise in a broad range of engineering disciplines including fuel, physics, electrical, mechanical, nuclear, civil and structural, robustness, systems reliability, several accident management, deterministic safety analysis, probabilistic safety analysis, instrumentation and control and of cyber security.

Essential Qualifications:

Education:

Graduation with a Bachelor degree from a recognized university.

Language Requirements:

Bilingual imperative with proficiency at CBC level. If you are unsure of your proficiency level, we encourage you to self-assess

We encourage you to apply to this position even if you do not meet the CBC language requirements. Should a suitable candidate not be found with the required language profile, then this position may be staffed with other linguistic profiles such as bilingual non-imperative. However, successful candidates must commit to learning their second official language (English or French) within 2 years of appointment.

Experience:

- Significant* experience effectively communicating technical or regulatory information to a wide variety of audiences in public and quasi-judicial settings
- Experience setting the stage for workplace culture to attract and retain a multi-disciplinary team of professionals
- Experience managing budgets and financial resources, relating to operating, project, and capital expenditures at the executive level
- Experience in championing and leading change initiatives across the organizational boundaries to achieve a new operational efficiency or to strengthen regulatory decision-making
- Significant* experience in leading the planning, delivery, performance review and reporting of a regulatory, science or technical program or operation

*Significant experience is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally associated with the performance of those duties for a period of approximately five (5) years

Knowledge of:

- The CNSCs role as nuclear regulatory authority
- Government of Canada regulation-making process

Key Leadership Competencies:

- At the CNSC, we are looking for leaders that model the Key Leadership Competencies and can foster the development of the CNSC Key Behavioural Competencies in others
- Key Leadership Competencies:
o Create Vision and Strategy
o Mobilize People
o Uphold Integrity and Respect
o Collaborate with Partners and Stakeholders
o Promote Innovation and Guide Change
o Achieve Results
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Asset Criteria:

- A Master's degree or PhD in Science, Engineering or another relevant field of study
- Significant experience managing a complex regulatory program in another government department or agency
- Domain expertise related to the nuclear industry

Submitting an Application:

Applicants must submit the following by the closing date, as these requirements will be used at the initial screening stage:

1. A cover letter, clearly demonstrating, using concrete examples and in no more than 3 pages, how you meet the essential experience requirements, in addition to the asset qualifications (if applicable) listed under the Qualifications section.
2. Your resume, including your education and contact information.
3. A one-page document (maximum) that outlines a complex regulatory/technical challenge that you successfully worked through

To expedite the recruitment process, you are also encouraged to provide:
1. A scanned copy of your transcript, diploma, or certificate as proof of education
2. A scanned copy of your SLE results.

We thank all those who apply. We will contact only those whose qualifications are the most relevant.

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Operational Needs:

- All CNSC staff are subject to the Mobility Directive.
- This position is required to travel frequently.
- Some overtime will be required.

Contact Information:

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