Personnel Security Screening Investigator

Parliamentary Protective Service - Departmental Security Sector
Ottawa (Ontario)
AS-04, AS-05
$70,437 to $92,690 (The position is at the PSA-7 group and level and the salary is based on a 35-hour work week.)
For further information on the organization, please visit Parliamentary Protective Service
**Closing date:
2 August 2023 - 23:
59, Pacific Time**
**Important messages**:
We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please use the Contact information below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.
Assessment accommodation
**Duties**:
The Personnel Security Screening Investigator provides comprehensive research and analysis focused on complex examinations, interviews, and investigations of various data. Findings enable the Senior Manager to provide a recommendation to the Senior Manager and/or the Departmental Security Officer.
The Personnel Security Screening Investigator's responsibilities are, but not limited to:
2. Receiving, assessing, conducting a search through all available databases, including open source information, and reports on the specific findings of each applicant submitted for security screening process.
3. Contacting the employers/academic institutions/references responsible for the substance of the information related to each applicant to elicit further insight and information. High risk findings or issues may require more extensive investigation.
4. Analyzing personal, protected, classified, and sensitive intelligence and other adverse information and makes recommendations to the Security Officer to approve or deny PPS Enhanced Reliability Status, Secret and Top-Secret Security Clearance to protect parliamentary facilities/assets (people, assets, and information) from insider threat, terrorist, organized crime, infiltration, theft, damage, espionage and other types of security breaches and violations.
5. Recommending appropriate action when security concerns are apparent following full review of given security screening files;
prepares communication and detailed case summaries for the Senior Manager and/or the Departmental Security Officer.
**Work environment**:
What we offer:
- Health, dental, and vision care insurance plans
- Public Service Pension Plan
- 35-hour standard work week
- Minimum 4 weeks of paid vacation
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Flexible work schedules
- While this position is eligible for part-time telework, regular on-site presence is required
- Named one of the National Capital Region’s top Employers of 2023
**Intent of the process**:
Who can apply:
AREA OF SELECTION 1:
Employees of Parliamentary Protective Service.
AREA OF SELECTION 2:
Open to Canadian citizens or permanent residents residing in the NCR.
The pool may also be used in the future to staff similar positions within the PPS and for other organizations.
**Positions to be filled**:
1
**Information you must provide**:
Your résumé.
EDUCATION:
Post-Secondary diploma in a field related to the position or an acceptable combination of education, training and experience.
Degree equivalency
EXPERIENCE:
Recent* and Significant ** experience conducting law enforcement OR Personnel screening security investigations.
Recent* and Significant** experience writing analytical documents such as investigative reports and correspondence.
Experience identifying, interpreting and analyzing legal, technical, financial or policy issues.
Recent* and significant** experience conducting in depth analysis of investigative and administrative reports and related documents.
Experience analyzing reports/information from various sources to determine compliance to security policy, and/or regulation and/or legislation.
Significant** experience using databases for the purposes of gathering information for security investigations.
DEFINITIONS:
- Recent means within the past five (5) years.
**Significant is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally associated with having performed a broad range of complex activities related to this task, which are acquired on a full-time basis for over a given period of two (2) years.
ASSETS:
Experience in conducting Open Source investigations.
Experience in the field of security screening within a governmental institution.
Experience as an investigator within a Law enforcement organization.
**The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)**:
Bilingual - Imperative (CBC/CBC)
Information on language requirements
KNOWLEDGE:
Knowledge of the personnel security screening process.
In-depth knowledge of the principles and practices of risk management to analyze security files and to assess the degree of threat that exists when adverse information is determined to be present.
Knowledge of the principle