contract until March 2027

Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is a federal Crown corporation with the mandate to promote efficient and effective standardization in Canada. Located in Ottawa, SCC has a Governing Council comprised of up to 13 members and a staff of approximately 160. The organization reports to Parliament through Innovation, Science and Industry and oversees Canada's standardization network.

Job Summary and Key Activities

The Senior Policy Analyst is responsible for delivering program management and implementation support for key corporate initiatives, providing front line leadership, expertise, and professional acumen in managing programs or services in sectors of strategic focus. The role develops and manages stakeholder engagement strategies and provides strategic advice in addressing stakeholder objectives and needs. The Senior Policy Analyst interacts and consults regularly with internal parties and stakeholders to drive the development and implementation of strategic initiatives.

Key Activities

• Leads programs to engage targeted stakeholders, including industry and government representatives, with particular focus on sustaining relationships, enabling, and promoting their use of, and involvement in standardization:
• Leads selected program based strategic initiatives that require cross-functional engagement with internal parties, and with external stakeholders, as appropriate.
• Researches and analyzes a variety of social, economic, regulatory, standardization or trade- related topics to enhance the capacity of SCC to provide value-added analysis, advice, and services to private and public sector stakeholders.
• Prepares and implements project plans to deliver programs and services, including the review and / or development of business cases; business and prescribed system requirements; and cross-functional integration activities.
• Provides expert advice in the negotiation of agreements with stakeholders to define the parameters and deliverables of action and endeavours with private and public sector stakeholders.
• Provides policy support, as required, to SCC statutory and advisory committees.
• Leads collaborative work teams through direction-setting and planning of work items and tasks associated with initiatives assigned to their team(s). This includes providing coaching and guidance to less experienced team members and colleagues and taking accountability for the accuracy and relevance of deliverables to stakeholders.

Essential Qualifications

Education

• Post-secondary education in environment science, climate change, economics, business administration, social science, political science or equivalent discipline.

Experience

• 5 years + of experience related to standardization, strategic policy and/or stakeholder relations
• Experience supporting the facilitation of multi-stakeholder technical or policy-setting groups or committees
• Experience in: project management, research, strategic-thinking, report writing

Knowledge

• Solid knowledge of the methods and tools for identifying uptake and implementation products (such as training and development tools) is important.
• Solid knowledge of SCC, including committee membership, national and international programs, SCC’s relationship with government, industry and trade.
• In-depth knowledge of the structure of the Canadian Government and Federal Government, as well as interpretation of policy priorities in relation to Canada’s economic, social and trade agenda.
• In-depth knowledge in the areas of communications, outreach and stakeholder engagement.
• Knowledge of policy analysis and development.
• Knowledge of standards, accreditation, and conformity assessment.
• Knowledge of the methods, techniques and practices involved in analyzing a wide range of technical information related to standards and accreditation.
• Knowledge of public and stakeholder relations and strategic communications is also expected to be able to address requirements for engagement with specific groups.
• Understanding of the SCC Act, as well as copyright and privacy laws.
• Understanding of the various national and international standardization bodies operating around the globe.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Strong analytical and communications and engagement skills.

Abilities

• Aptitude for isolating salient information from the vast amount of information gathered.
• Ability to grow and maintain a network of internal and external sources of information, to work effectively with deadlines and to be able to represent the organization in a positive and professional manner.
• Ability to synthesize and present information in a manner that engages stakeholders and colleagues on the technical and strategic requirements of standards.

1: Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.

2: SCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process. Typically to be eligible for “Reliability" clearance, you must have five years of verifiable background information and to be eligible for a "Secret" clearance, you must have 10 years of verifiable background information. The process usually involves reference inquiries, verification of qualifications, criminal records checks, and credit checks (as required) and may require fingerprints. For more information about obtaining a security clearance, please review the Standard on Security Screening.

3: We are committed to creating and fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment that reflects the peoples’ lives that we impact and the Canadian community that we work within. We strive to create an environment where everyone is comfortable being their authentic selves. We welcome Indigenous peoples and persons from all races, ethnicities, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, and physical or mental abilities to be part of our team.

4: Please send your application before closing date. We will be carefully reviewing all applications, and those who's qualifications align best with our current needs will be contacted.

Thank you for your interest in SCC.