Interesting Job Posting - MMPR Risk Management Officers

Devil Lettuce

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Just came across this posting.........very interesting:

http://www.indeed.ca/viewjob?jk=a980fa0dc8c169e6&q=marihuana&tk=18slr0prl191h3j3&from=web

Risk Management Officer
Maxsys - Ottawa, ON
Contract
We are accepting qualified applicants for anticipated upcoming positions.

Our public sector client is currently looking for an advanced level Risk Management Officer to work a 16 week contract from June to September.

Please note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted for this position. The position may also be filled prior to the closing date.

You must meet the following mandatory requirements in order to qualify…

DUTIES

? Leading the development of national compliance and enforcement policies, standards, guidelines, practices, and supporting documents relating to the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations.

? Drafting a guidance document related to the classification of observations found during the inspection of producers licensed under the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations.

? Providing scientific, regulatory and technical advice and guidance to management, regulated industry, health care professionals, academia, other government agencies and the Canadian public using a variety of means, including responses to individual enquiries, input into public advisories and the development of products to promote better understanding and awareness of legislative and regulatory requirements of the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations.

? Providing onsite advice and guidance to Senior Management related to issue prioritization and development of regulatory compliance and enforcement strategies using a risk management approach as it applies to the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations.

? Designing, delivering, and coordinating training and development activities for compliance and enforcement professionals related to the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations.

? Drafting communications, briefing materials, QP notes, responses to media inquiries on complex regulatory, scientific or legal information.

? Analyzing and summarizing data, and preparing reports describing compliance and enforcement activities related to marihuana for medical purposes.

? Mentoring less experienced staff in the application of compliance and enforcement practices.

MANDATORY CRITERIA (resource must have the following)

Must meet the Minimum Mandatory Qualifications as per THS, Annex “C” of Part A, Statement of Requirement-Classifications (Version 1) available on the THS websitehttp://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/sat-ths/classifications-eng.html

Education:
  • University degree from a recognized university or institute with an acceptable specialization in microbiology, biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacy, pharmacology, biology, biotechnology , medicine or other specialty related to the position.
  • Diploma or certification from a recognized university or institute with an acceptable specialization in principles of adult learning.
Experience:
  • Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience conducting, monitoring, or coordinating compliance and enforcement activities in the area of health products
  • Minimum of five (5) of relevant experience providing advice to senior management and internal and external clients/stakeholders on compliance and enforcement options based on the interpretation and application of legislation or regulations or policies or guidelines
  • Minimum of three (3) years of experience designing and delivering training and development activities for compliance and enforcement professionals
  • Minimum of three (3) years preparing reports, briefing materials, QP notes or media lines on complex regulatory, scientific or legal information
  • Minimum of three (3) years in providing risk management advice to senior management related to potential health and safety risk associated with health products
 

Devil Lettuce

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I have no idea, you should apply and find out ;) I just found it interesting that the government is contracting out jobs related to policing LP's and drafting guidance documents related to the MMPR. I wonder if this is related to the investigations or if they want to bring more people onboard to help process more applicants?
 

WHATFG

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Yet they couldn't come up with a way to monitor pupl's or dg's under the mmar. Hmmmph
 

oddish

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I have no idea, you should apply and find out ;) I just found it interesting that the government is contracting out jobs related to policing LP's and drafting guidance documents related to the MMPR. I wonder if this is related to the investigations or if they want to bring more people onboard to help process more applicants?
I heard, from a fairly reliable person, that the application processing department shrunk - I heard reference from 2 people there that coworkers/employees were being sent home.
 

CalyxCrusher

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I heard, from a fairly reliable person, that the application processing department shrunk - I heard reference from 2 people there that coworkers/employees were being sent home.

Is there a proper term for someone whose reasoning is completely a 180 from common sense. I mean clearly their reasoning is that if you diminish staff the applications for new LP's coming in will slow! When clearly all it does is slow the application PROCESS not the NUMBER of applicants.

Man o MAN the millions and millions of dollars spent if you add up all the LP's waiting on approval of the next step(whichever step of the application process they're currently in) all for a "potential" shot. And HC thinks there won't be legal repercussions on behalf of those left in the dark? It's one thing to have dicked around patients for the entirety of the old program in regards to ease of access, and the same with the new program. But when it's dicking around future LP's and their investors who generally DO have the funds for litigation, they may learn a lesson the hard way. The silver lining is that it's only helping our case as patients. SO much Schadenfreude for HC
 

oddish

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I think the whole idea was that they sent the people (employees) home the same time they sent back a large number of rejections. I imagine they now evaluate applications on a checklist basis:
  • Does it have any residential buildings within 500m
  • Does their QA person have above-and-beyond qualifications
  • Is their QA person full-time or have they provided a schedule for this person
  • Is their security provided by a company on the list or is it "homemade security"
Run through the checklist, find the problem, send the app back.
Don't even have to read the rest of it. They're known for sending the app back one issue at a time instead of sending back all the issues at once.

Either that or, due to the investigations and summer holidays, they just shut it down for the summer to evaluate how many staff they need in September again..

Who knows - they'll always find a way to be cheap and ineffective though.
 
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