Contracting and Procurement Officers (Various Levels)

Reference number: RF-14179

About CSE

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada’s agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence, cyber operations and cyber security. Learn more about our mission.

CSE is committed to fostering a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion. This isn’t just an ideal, it’s crucial to our mission. Find out about our workplace culture, including our diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Become part of our team and you’ll understand why CSE is the most important organization you’ve never heard of.

Job summary

Join CSE for a unique opportunity at the center of Canada’s national security and intelligence community. Be part of a team that manages important contracts and procurement, helping to protect Canada and keep Canadians safe.

 

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Plan and execute contracting and procurement of goods and services, including creating documents, negotiating contracts and ensuring compliance with terms and conditions of contracts.
• Identify evolving trends or challenges in our procurement strategies.
• Develop procurement solutions for new and ongoing initiatives including assessing risks and benefits to determine feasibility.
• Engage directly with clients as a source of expertise by providing advice, guidance and recommendations and support their short- and long-term procurement plans and requirements.
• Liaise with Other Government Departments (OGD) about CSE procurement activities.

Salary

UNI 06 – $84,242 to $99,107

UNI 07 – $93,510 to $110,009

UNI 08 – $99,804 to $117,415

 

To find out more about our salary scale, vacation allowances and benefits (health, dental & pension plans, etc.) visit the Compensation page on our website.

Area of selection

Open to Canadian citizens residing within the National Capital Region (NCR).

Location

Ottawa, Ontario. CSE has two accessible facilities. Flexible work arrangements, including telework for a portion of the work week, may be possible.

Conditions of employment

An Enhanced Top Secret (ETS) security clearance is a condition of employment that must be met before an offer can be made.

More information about our hiring and security processes can be found on our website.

Essential qualifications

In order to be considered, your cover letter must clearly explain how you meet the following education and experience requirements.

Education

• A Secondary School diploma.  Note: you must be able to provide proof of education.

Experience

FOR UNI-06 POSITIONS:

• *Recent experience planning and delivering contracting and procurement for goods and services.
• *Recent experience preparing contract documents, such as statements of work, evaluation criteria and requests for proposal. This includes managing competitive tendering and/or developing and submitting proposals (technical and financial bid documentation) and/or handling sole source contracts.
• *Recent experience providing advice and guidance to clients on the procedures and policies related to procurement or management of goods and services.
• *Recent experience ensuring contracts and procurement activities are following internal and external policies, regulations and practices.

 

FOR UNI-07 AND UNI-08 POSITIONS:

• *All of the above experience listed under UNI 06 positions must be met within the Federal Government of Canada.

 

FOR UNI-08 POSITIONS :

• Experience providing strategic advice, planning and determining procurement strategies.
• Experience working on **complex procurement strategies.

 

Note: For the purposes of this hiring process, “Recent” is defined as experience having been acquired within the last five years. **Complex procurement strategies are defined as having at least two of the following attributes: involving multiple clients, sensitive in nature, high risk, executed in multiple phases, or requiring negotiations.

 

Official language requirements

UNI-06 and UNI-07

• English Essential OR
• Bilingual Imperative (BBB/BBB)

 

UNI-08

• *Bilingual Imperative (BBB/BBB)

 

*NOTE: If insufficient bilingual candidates are identified for UNI-08 positions, non-imperative staffing may be considered.

Competencies

The following technical, behavioural and leadership competencies will be assessed at a later date. You do not need to include information about them in your application. 

Technical competencies

• Contracting and Procurement Knowledge – Obtaining assets and services that ensure best value to Crown. 
• Knowledge of Legislation, Standards, Acts and Policies as they apply to Contracting and Procurement. 

Behavioural competencies

• Cognitive thinking skills
• Service
• Working in a team

Leadership competencies

• Achieving results
• Collaboration
• Integrity, respect and awareness

Assets

Assets are “nice-to-have” expertise and skills we’re interested in. They may be used to identify which team you could best complement, or they may be invoked as a volume management strategy.   

Please demonstrate on your application if you meet or possess the asset education or asset experience listed below.

Asset education

• University or college degree in commerce, business administration, supply chain management or another related field.

Note: The educational program must be recognized in Canada and you must be able to provide proof of education credentials.

Asset experience

• Experience using financial management systems or procurement management systems such as SAP, FreeBalance, AMES, etc.

How to apply

You may submit your candidacy online by selecting “Apply” at the top or bottom of this page.

If you cannot apply online or have a disability preventing you from applying online, please inform us by email at careers-carrieres@cse-cst.gc.ca prior to the closing date of this hiring process.

Important information

We ask you to not discuss your application with others (including on social media) besides your partner, or close family members - who should also be reminded about the need to be discreet.

Assessments of candidates are conducted in the official language of their choice.

To address CSE’s current representation gaps, priority may be given to persons who self-declare as belonging to one, or more, designated employment equity groups: women; Indigenous peoples, including First Nations who are status, or registered and non-status, or non-registered, Inuit and Métis; persons with disabilities, including people with a mental health condition and neurodivergent people; and persons from racial or ethnic groups. 

Please note the Employment Equity Act, which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

CSE offers an assessment process that will accommodate any reasonable measures you require to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Those measures are available to all candidates during our processes. Information you provide will be addressed confidentially.

The level of competence demonstrated in the various assessments will be used to determine your qualifications for the UNI 06, UNI 07 or UNI 08 level. 

 

All communications with CSE relating to this process, including email messages and telephone conversations, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

The intent of this process is to fill vacant positions at CSE. The process may also be used to establish a pool of qualified candidates which could be used to staff similar or identical positions with various tenures.

Due to the nature of CSE’s mandate certain roles may expose employees to content that is difficult to process. Mental health is a priority at CSE and if any personnel feel they require assistance to preserve their mental wellbeing, they have access to services, tools and other resources to help them in both their personal and professional lives.

Please note that in an effort to maintain balance between employee development and business needs, candidates who are hired at CSE must remain in their substantive position for a minimum of twelve (12) months subject to operational requirements.

 

We thank you for your interest in CSE. However, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.