Security & Resilience Awareness Specialist (18 Month Term)

Job Posting Title

Security & Resilience Awareness Specialist (18 Month Term)

Job Category

Corporate Services

Language Requirements

Bilingual Preferred / Bilingue de préférenceIn the event a qualified bilingual candidate is not found, a qualified unilingual candidate will be considered. / Dans l’éventualité où un candidat bilingue qualifié n’est pas disponible, un candidat unilingue qualifié sera considéré.

Flexible Work Agreement Type

Hybrid / Hybride

Posting End Date

2026-11-23

Job Grade

P3

Pay Range

Commensurate with Experience / Selon l’expérience

Job Summary

Safe landings. And take offs.

Enroute or at airports, in clearances or on charts, through radio signals or expertise — we’re always here. Keeping Canada’s skies safe.
Join us as a Security Awareness Specialist within our Corporate Security and Emergency Planning team. In this new and unique role, you will have the opportunity to create and coordinate awareness and training for our employees in the areas of security, risk and resilience.

In this role, you will collaborate with and help align related activities across various business groups while managing associated online content, establishing a brand and building a culture of vigilance.

Through the development, collection and tracking of performance metrics as well as trends, you will support the Manager, Security and Emergency Programs and Governance through assessments and recommendations to guide ongoing campaigns and future initiatives.

Your background using technological tools and digital media to enhance awareness, training products and evaluate where NAV CANADA can improve would make you a strong candidate.

Job Description

What NAV CANADA offers you:

• Challenging, team-oriented work environment
• Competitive compensation and flexible benefits
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Opportunities for growth and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Diverse and inclusive workforce

In this role you will:

• Develop and implement communication strategies, awareness programs, and training that correlates with strategic priorities and key focus areas.
• Analyze stakeholder needs, providing advice on various approaches, and implementing corresponding programs. Collaboration with working groups, including partners in related disciplines like Human Resources, Privacy and Cyber Security, is essential to design integrated initiatives.
• The individual brings expertise using technological tools and digital media to enhance awareness products and evaluates existing activities for improvement or alignment opportunities.
• Propose innovative solutions to effectively raise awareness among employees about best practices in security, preparedness and resilience at work, home, the community and abroad.
• Design, develop and produce monthly dashboards, quarterly score cards and annual reports on key priorities and initiatives, including metrics, trends and measurements of effectiveness.

What you bring to the role:

• College diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Education, Policy, Business Administration or related area of study (or a combination of successful completion of high school diploma and minimum 5 years of progressive work experience in a related field).
• Experience in conceptualizing, planning, executing and managing awareness and training campaigns, ideally in the field of security and resilience.
• Experience in conducting consultations and providing specialized advice on awareness requirements.
• Experience in developing awareness campaigns, products, tools, training and communication.
• Experience in digital communications, marketing, content development and eLearning.
• Ability to summarize and present key points as well as data in a meaningful way that will engage a wide audience.
• Confidence planning and delivering briefings, awareness sessions and training to senior executives, project teams and working groups.
• Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint and OneNote.
• Building content using Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator as well as Adobe Premiere and Spark.
• Experience developing and sharing content using Microsoft 365 Suite including SharePoint, Viva Engage, Streams and Forms (or similar platforms).

How others describe you:

• Self-motivating and driven, able to work autonomously while being part of a larger team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Solid written, verbal and visual communication skills.
• Able to develop engaging, interconnected storylines with ease.
• Highly creative strategic thinker who is innovative, adaptive, open-minded and goal oriented.
• Familiar with developing long term objective-based plans with structured and progressive milestone targets towards the goal.
• Able to interpret statistics and identify trends, understand their meaning and suggest opportunities for improvement.
• Adept at reading policy, understand the intent and summarize key takeaways in succinct terms using plain language.
• Familiar drafting and reviewing non-technical policies, standards, guidelines, processes and procedures.
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks, including potential competitive and conflicting priorities, time pressures and deadlines.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, agile and dynamic environment.
• Able to foster a climate conducive to an engaged workforce by promoting company values of diversity, respect, excellence and service.

Working conditions

• This position is a hybrid position with a minimum – 3 day(s) per week on site.
• The work location is the combined ANS in Ottawa. Transportation is required as the location is not on any bus routes

Behaviour Statement:

• All employees of NAV CANADA are expected to demonstrate behaviours aligned with company’s Code of Ethical Conduct, values, safety and objectives. This includes adherence to any safety policies, standards, and procedures corresponding to job responsibilities and duties.

NAV CANADA is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. If you do not believe that you match every job requirement listed on this job posting, we still encourage you to apply. NAV CANADA encourages a culture of learning and growth, and recognizes that although some technical skills are mandatory, many others can be taught.

Our Company strives to create an inclusive and barrier-free selection process and work environment. If you require accommodations during this competition process, please ensure that you inform the interview coordinator or hiring manager of any accommodation measures you may require. NAV CANADA will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities as required.

The successful candidate must meet the security requirement of the position and be legally able to work in Canada.

NAV CANADA may use automated or AI‑enabled tools to help manage applications and identify job‑related qualifications. These tools do not make final hiring decisions. All hiring decisions are reviewed and made by NAV CANADA recruitment professionals and hiring managers.

We thank all applicants for their interest; only those selected for next steps will be contacted.

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