Assistant Director, Technology, and Information

**Branch**: Technology and Information Management Branch

**Section**: Information Technology

**Employment Type**: Indeterminate

**Position Linguistic Designation**: Bilingual (English, French)

**Position Global Linguistic Level**: B2

**Job Band**: Band 14 UNIFOR 2025_EXCL

**Salary**: $137,213.00 - $154,435.99 + $1,798.58 Bilingual Allowance

**Union**: UNIFOR 2025 Excluded

**Location**: Ottawa Headquarters

**Search Area**: Internal; Membership; Public

**Closing Date**: 09/13/2024

**Who are we?**:
**We will support your mental and physical health with**:

- Flexible work arrangements. Hybrid employees may have own dedicated workstations.
- Group Benefits (Health, Dental, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Employee and Family Assistance), such as $7,500 for mental health professionals, that are 100% paid by employer.
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan (50/50 contribution from you and us).
- Three weeks' vacation to start, plus extra paid leave to support your wellness.
- Generous support for your professional growth and career development.
- Recreation allowance of $800 per year.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Under the general direction of the Director, Technology, and Information Management Branch, the Assistant Director is responsible for directing the activities of the Technology,
and Information Management Sections that support the operational goals and objectives of the PSAC.
The position has primary responsibility for planning, managing, and coordinating the delivery of Technology, and Information Management programs and services within PSAC, overseeing the management of financial and human resources under their supervision, managing relationships with external service providers, and leading and coaching work teams and leading cross-organizational projects.**What you will bring to the table**:
**_Education/Experience_**:
**_ Knowledge_**:

- A broad understanding of Information Technology and Information Management practices.
- A demonstrated ability to analyze and understand the functionality of existing data analytics and reporting with the use of current and emerging tools and dashboards.
- A demonstrated ability to provide comprehensive and technically sound advice to management, computer users and technical staff in specific technical and business analysis and process areas.
- A demonstrated ability in creating system and end-user documentation including requirements definitions, flow charts, Gantt charts, data flow diagrams and training documents.
- A strong ability in developing action plans and making presentations of plans and reports to management.
- Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing technology.
- A commitment to trade union and equity principles and understanding of the sensitive political and social issues.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in French and English.

**_ Abilities_**:

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated leadership, management, administrative skills including the ability to lead and coordinate a team of HR specialists as well as workforce planning, negotiations, budgeting, team development and organizational skills.
- Strong project management skills and ability to play a hands-on role in leading a priority TIM project.
- Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with the ability to provide and communicate complex information for the intended audience using various methods.
- Ability to deal effectively with conflict, build credibility and trust between parties and support/promote union-management partnerships.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet firm deadlines.

**_ Personal suitability_**:

- Excellent judgment, political acuity and demonstrated problem solving, consultative, persuasive and conflict resolution skills to provide sound direction and advice on a variety of complex TIM issues to all levels of management and staff.
- Effective interpersonal skills; dependability, reliability, and flexibility.
- Ability to work in a political organization with often competing priorities as well as a commitment to union and social justice issues.
- Availability to travel as required.

**What you need to know**:

- Experience and formal training combined with demonstrated performance and ability may substitute for stipulated academic requirements.
- A full job description is available upon request.

**NOTES**:
**Internal applicants should submit their résumé online through the internal career site.**

The Public Service Alliance of Canada is committed to achieving and maintaining a representative workforce that ensures the full participation and advancement of traditionally under-represented groups. Applications are encouraged from equity groups including women, racially visible persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Non-binary, Queer, Intersex, Indigiqueer, Asexual, Pansexual, Another identity and more (2SLGB