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.
