Apex Executive

Since 1984, The Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) has supported executives through management excellence, professional development and networking, providing services and sharing knowledge. We are a professional Association with a profound sense of community and purpose. At the core of our success is a commitment to leadership and research.

Our Vision is to support an executive community with elevated wellness, elite leaders and extraordinary impacts through partnerships. Our strategic pillars are:
**Advocacy**: Supporting Individual executives and acting as their voice

**National Engagement**: Relationship building that improves presence, visibility, and awareness coast to coast to coast

**Service Excellence**: Provide the highest quality programming to clients

**Business Sustainability**: Building resource capacity that endures

**APEX is currently seeking a third Advisor to Executives**

More specifically, the person in this position would:

- Provide ongoing support and advice in both official languages (an essential criterion), to a growing clientele base, in Canada and abroad, using a risk-assessment model
- Be able to handle a large and varied volume of cases
- Conduct outreach to membership and the federal public service executive community to provide feedback, resources for self care and to promote the Advisory Service for Executives service
- Develop and share tools and materials to support executive wellbeing and leadership development
- Demonstrate personal resilience in hearing complex and difficult stories
- Be compassionate, yet realistic, in providing advice
- Be responsive and solution-oriented
- Have the utmost discretion
- _Coaching skills and certifications may be an asset._

For details on **How to Apply**, please refer to that section below.

**APEX Executives are expected to demonstrate strong Key Leadership Competencies**:

- Create vision and strategy
- Mobilize people
- Uphold Integrity and Respect
- Collaborate with partners and stakeholders
- Promote Innovation and Guide Change
- Achieve Results

**APEX Executives must also demonstrate the following skills and abilities**:

- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Solid writing skills
- Comfort with collaboration across organizations and levels
- Sound judgement
- An ability to work alone but comfortable working as part of a team
- Flexibility and adaptability to changing circumstances
- Ability to perform all work related to their projects
- Fluency in English and French**
**Representation matters**:
When applying, we encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups.

**Workplace**:
As we transition toward the APEX Workplace of the Future, staff are being encouraged to plan on spending more days working in the office for day-to-day operations. New APEX employees will need to commit to 40% in-office presence.

While APEX transitions for employees in the NCR, telework agreements in support of regional inclusion are possible.

**How to Apply**:
In your letter, please provide the following information:

- your reason for interest in the position and working with APEX;
- how you demonstrate the necessary skills and meet the requirements to perform the specific functions;
- an indication that your home department would be willing to support your Interchange agreement.
- copy of your resumé;
- confirmation of your performance ratings for the past 2 years.