Senior Civilian Reruitment Specialist

Role Responsibilities

Are you motivated by the opportunity to attract and recruit the people who help keep communities safe? As the Alberta Sheriffs Police Service (ASPS) continues to build a modern policing organization, the ASPS is seeking a Civilian Recruitment Specialist to support civilian recruitment and staffing across a growing public safety environment. This role will provide full-cycle recruitment services for civilian, non-sworn positions while working within a broader workforce that includes civilian employees, peace officers, and police officers. 

This is an opportunity to contribute to the development of Alberta’s newest police service by helping attract, assess, and support candidates for roles that are essential to ASPS operations. The successful candidate will work closely with hiring managers, HR partners, candidates, and stakeholders to deliver fair, consistent, and defensible recruitment processes.

What You’ll Do:

Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, the Civilian Recruitment Specialist will provide trusted recruitment advice and deliver end-to-end staffing services for civilian positions within ASPS. The role supports hiring managers through intake consultation, job posting, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, candidate communication, selection documentation, and offer preparation. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Consulting with hiring managers to identify recruitment needs, understand operational requirements, and develop effective sourcing and staffing strategies. 
• Supporting fair, merit-based, and competency-informed recruitment and assessment processes. 
• Managing recruitment activities for civilian and essential support roles, including application review, interview coordination, candidate communication, and offer preparation. 
• Applying employment legislation, human rights requirements, privacy obligations, organizational policy, and applicable collective agreement provisions to support compliant hiring practices. 
• Maintaining accurate recruitment files, competition records, candidate documentation, and tracking information to support transparency, privacy compliance, and defensible hiring decisions. 
• Using applicant and recruitment data to support candidate pools, talent pipelines, workforce planning, and recruitment reporting. 
• Supporting attraction initiatives such as career fairs, recruitment campaigns, campus strategies, intern programs, and other workforce attraction activities. 
• Contributing to recruitment process improvements, staffing metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen service quality and consistency. 
  
  

What You’ll Bring:

You are a service-oriented recruitment professional who understands the importance of fair, transparent, and well-documented hiring processes. You are comfortable working with hiring managers, supporting candidates, managing multiple competitions, and applying sound judgment in a high-integrity public safety environment. You bring practical experience in full-cycle recruitment, talent acquisition, staffing coordination, candidate assessment, and recruitment file management. You can balance responsiveness with procedural fairness, maintain confidentiality, and provide clear advice to hiring managers and stakeholders. 

The ideal candidate will have experience developing sourcing strategies, supporting structured interviews and assessments, maintaining applicant tracking information, and contributing to recruitment reporting, workforce planning, and candidate pipeline development.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviours that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in-depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

• Systems Thinking: Understands how recruitment, workforce planning, classification, policy, collective agreement requirements, candidate experience, and operational staffing needs connect within a modern public safety organization.
• Drive for Results: Manages multiple competitions, deadlines, documentation requirements, and candidate communications while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and defensible hiring outcomes.
• Develop Networks: Builds trusted relationships with hiring managers, HR partners, candidates, workforce planning contacts, recruitment stakeholders, and public safety partners to support effective attraction and staffing strategies.
• Agility: Adapts recruitment approaches, sourcing strategies, assessment processes, and competing priorities in response to changing operational needs, labour market conditions, policy requirements, and candidate availability.
• Creative Problem Solving: Identifies practical solutions to recruitment challenges, including hard-to-fill roles, process barriers, assessment design, candidate pipeline development, reporting needs, and file documentation issues.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Works collaboratively with hiring managers, HR colleagues, candidates, and stakeholders to support transparent, inclusive, and consistent recruitment processes that meet business and candidate needs.
• Develop Self and Others: Strengthens recruitment knowledge and capability by sharing best practices, supporting hiring manager understanding of fair selection processes, contributing to process improvements, and staying current on recruitment standards and tools.

Qualifications

Education

• A two (2) year diploma in a related field and one (1) year of related experience in recruitment, staffing, human resources, or talent acquisition. 
  
  

A related one (1) year certificate and two (2) years of related experience or directly related education or experience may be considered on the basis of: 

• One (1) year of education for one (1) year of experience; or 
• One (1) year of experience for one (1) year of education.
  
  

Assets

• Expertise with Power BI, DAX and Power Query
• Experience with SAP SuccessFactors or an equivalent HR Information System
• Experience recruiting for civilian roles in a policing, public safety, unionized, or complex public-sector environment. 
• Experience supporting recruitment marketing, employer branding, candidate pools, or talent pipeline development.
  
  

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Notes

Please note that there is one (1) permanent, full-time, in-person position available.

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 36.25 hours per week.

• Please note a cover letter explaining how you meet the requirements and assets of the role is required.
• Final candidates will be required to undergo security screening.
• Valid Class 5 Alberta Driver's License or equivalent is required.
• Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.
  
  

Links and information on what we have to offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP)
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information
• Professional learning and development
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.