Salary: $107,061 to $125,949

Closing date: 2025-04-25

Reference number: RF-12901

About CSE

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada’s agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence, cyber operations and cyber security. Learn more about our mission.

CSE is committed to fostering a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion. This isn’t just an ideal, it’s crucial to our mission. Find out about our workplace culture, including our diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Become part of our team and you’ll understand why CSE is the most important organization you’ve never heard of.

Job summary

Join our dynamic team as a Compensation Supervisor at CSE in the National Capital Region.

We’re looking for a passionate person with leadership skills who thrives working in a fast-paced environment and who values customer service excellence.

As a leader within the Compensation Team, you’ll support the delivery of the operational compensation services to CSE employees. You’ll also play a key role in leading projects and the corporate compensation mandate.

Your work in this position is essential to maintain the integrity of government human resources and pay initiatives, and to protect CSE’s interests.

We’d love to hear from you if you are:

• collaborative;
• meticulous;
• customer service oriented;
• someone who enjoys a challenge;
• a supportive team member; and
• an effective and interactive communicator (both verbally and written).

Salary

To find out more about our salary scale, vacation allowances and benefits (health, dental & pension plans, etc.) visit the Compensation page on our website.

Area of selection

Open to Canadian citizens. Preference may be given to candidates who reside in the National Capital Region (NCR).

Location

The majority of our positions are in Ottawa, Ontario. CSE has two accessible facilities. Flexible work arrangements, including working remotely, telework for a portion of the work week, may be possible.

Conditions of employment

A valid Enhanced Top Secret (ETS) security clearance is a condition of employment that must be met before an offer can be made.

More information about our hiring and security processes can be found on our website.

Essential qualifications

In order to be considered, your cover letter must clearly explain how you meet the following education and experience requirements.

Education

• A secondary school diploma or an *acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience. The education program must be recognized in Canada, and you must be able to provide proof of education credentials.

*An acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience is defined as four (4) years of high school and two (2) years full-time experience with the Federal Public Service.

Experience

• *Recent experience processing data entries in a Human Resources Management System (HRMS) such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Workday, etc. and direct entries in the Phoenix pay system in the Federal Public Service.
• *Recent experience providing advice and recommendations to stakeholders on **sensitive and complex issues regarding the application and interpretation of compensation related to processing direct entries in Phoenix, directives, policies, rulings, TBS interpretations, collective agreements, and procedures in the Federal public service.
• Experience supervising or leading a compensation project or a compensation team with direct entry access to Phoenix in the Federal Public Service.

*Recent experience is defined as the depth and breadth of experience normally acquired with the performance of duties over approximately two (2) years within the last four (4) years.

**sensitive and complex issues are defined as cases which require a high degree of sensitivity due to the nature of the request (financial hardship, privacy issues, violence, etc.) and combination of calculations, research, collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, etc. related to the full range of compensation services (pay, leave, benefits and pension).

Official language requirements

• Bilingual Imperative (CBC/CBC)

Competencies

The following technical, behavioural and leadership competencies will be assessed at a later date. You do not need to include information about them in your application.

Technical competencies

• Expertise in Compensation Administration
• Knowledge of Compensation Tools & Technology
• Knowledge of Human Resources Disciplines
• Analytical Thinking

Behavioural competencies

• Service
• Working in a team

Leadership competencies

• Achieving results
• Collaboration
• Integrity, respect and awareness
• Lead and Motivate

Operational requirements

Overtime may be required.

How to apply

You may submit your candidacy online by selecting “Apply” at the top or bottom of this page.

If you cannot apply online or have a disability preventing you from applying online, please inform us by email at careers-carrieres@cse-cst.gc.ca prior to the closing date of this hiring process.

Important information

We ask you to not discuss your application with others (including on social media) besides your partner, or close family members - who should also be reminded about the need to be discreet.

Assessments of candidates are conducted in the official language of their choice.

To address CSE’s current representation gaps, priority may be given to persons who self-declare as belonging to one, or more, designated employment equity groups: women; Indigenous peoples, including First Nations who are status, or registered and non-status, or non-registered, Inuit and Métis; persons with disabilities, including people with a mental health condition and neurodivergent people; and persons from racial or ethnic groups.

Please note the Employment Equity Act, which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

CSE offers an assessment process that will accommodate any reasonable measures you require to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Those measures are available to all candidates during our processes. Information you provide will be addressed confidentially.

All communications with CSE relating to this process, including email messages and telephone conversations, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

The intent of this process is to fill vacant positions at CSE. The process may also be used to establish a pool of qualified candidates which could be used to staff similar or identical positions with various tenures.

Due to the nature of CSE’s mandate, certain roles may expose employees to content that is difficult to process. Mental health is a priority at CSE and if any personnel feel they require assistance to preserve their mental wellbeing, they have access to services, tools and other resources to help them in both their personal and professional lives.

We thank you for your interest in CSE. However, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.