Fall 2025 - Student Opportunities in Business Analysis

Salary:  $23.27-$37.77

Closing date: 2025-01-22

Reference number: RF-12652

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.

Student positions at CSE are unlike most others. We offer both practical and developmental work experience and allow students to be part of meaningful, exciting, projects, with the hope that they will want to join us full-time following their studies.

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

 

Business Analyst

 

The Business Analyst role comprises many different responsibilities at CSE. The Business Analyst will continuously build and maintain collaborative relationships within CSE’s program management community as well as other government stakeholders, and depending on the organizational role of the hiring team, may be responsible for (but not limited to):

-        Interpreting and applying project management methodologies, best practices and templates to CSE’s project management community;

-        Building and leveraging international partnerships to help evolve and grow CSE’s mission with foreign partners, advance Government of Canada intelligence priorities globally, support CSE’s foreign deployed personnel or deliver professional event management services for CSE;

-        Engaging and collaborating directly with Canadian clients and/or key partners to provide exceptional cyber security services;

-        Identifying business requirements and optimal solutions, collaborating with colleagues, internal and external stakeholders, and being aware of emerging trends to support learning and development opportunities for employees, ensure compliance with Official Language requirements, and help CSE become a leader in the area of employment Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiatives;

-         Supporting the management of corporate and administrative information by providing advice and guidance to staff on Information Management practices, analyzing business processes, managing the information lifecycle for electronic and physical records, supporting CSE’s Open Government initiative, developing and maintaining the library collection and providing library reference services;

-        Handling the collection, redaction and unclassified summarization of any documents requiring legal proceedings, legal risk assessments and management of files, advises and trains the entire organization on privacy, and develops the privacy protection measures; and

-        Developing compliant and engaging cyber security learning solutions, such as online courses and multimedia elements, identifying emerging learning technology trends, providing recommendation on new approaches and tools to support the development and delivery of all virtual learning solutions.

 

Salary

To find out more about our student salary scale visit the Compensation page on our website.

Area of selection

Open to Canadian citizens.

 

Location

The majority of our jobs are in Ottawa, Ontario. CSE has two accessible facilities. Flexible work arrangements, including telework for a portion of the work week, may be possible.

Learn more about where we work.

 

Conditions of employment

A valid Enhanced Reliability Status (ERS) or an Enhanced Top Secret (ETS) security clearance is a condition of employment that must be met before an offer can be made.

For more information about our hiring process, visit our hiring process and security page 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

You must be registered as a full-time student in a recognized post-secondary program in a field related to the position, such as (but not limited to) commerce, business administration, public administration, or social sciences.

 

Note: The educational program must be recognized in Canada, and you must be able to provide a transcript from your most recent term. Students graduating prior to, or during, the work term are not eligible to apply.

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

Technical competencies will vary depending on the job family you select upon application submission.

Behavioural competencies

·        Cognitive thinking skills

·        Interactive communication

·        Working in a team

Leadership competencies

·        Achieving results

·        Collaboration

·        Integrity, respect and awareness

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 students-etudiants@cse-cst.gc.ca prior to the closing date of this selection process.

Important information

The process will be conducted in the official language of your choice.

To address CSE’s current representation gaps, priority may be given to persons who self-declare as belonging to the following 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.

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

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