Backgrounder
IRB
GIC
Competency Profile
Recently, the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB)
reviewed and redefined the behavioural competencies for GIC
members, to ensure they have the necessary skills, abilities and personal
suitability. The competencies were redefined drawing from the expertise
of a core group of IRB
decision-making experts. The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration was
consulted on the revised competencies.
Outlined below are the nine key behavioural competencies for the role
of Member IAD/RPD.
These competencies are the basis for the evaluation of candidates for
appointment to the IRB,
as well as, for the ongoing evaluation of IRB
member performance.
- Communication: Is the ability to transmit and receive
information clearly and communicate effectively to others by considering
their points of view in order to respond appropriately. It includes
using impartiality and tact in all communications as well as the ability
to convey ideas and information, both orally and in writing, in a way
that brings understanding to the target audience.
- Conceptual Thinking: Is the ability to identify patterns
or connections between situations that are not obviously related such
as the applicability of broad legal principles to a specific set of
facts, and to identify key or underlying issues in complex situations.
It includes using creative, conceptual, or inductive reasoning.
- Decision Making: Is the ability to make decisions
based on analysis of the information presented in the
face of ambiguous or conflicting situations or when decisions rendered
have a significant impact on others.
- Information Seeking: Is the ability to efficiently
identify information required to clarify a situation, to direct that
information be obtained from appropriate sources, and use skillful questioning
to draw out the relevant information including when others are reluctant
to disclose it. This competency enables the Member to prepare clear
and well-structured cases reflecting in depth knowledge of the subject
and the audience and to use the hearing as a tool to obtain additional
required information.
- Judgement/Analytical Thinking: Is understanding a
situation, issue, problem, etc. by extracting the essential elements
and forming them into a cohesive whole, or tracing the implications
of a situation in a step-by-step way. It includes efficiently assimilating,
organizing and interpreting information from a variety of sources and
depicting sound judgement by being rational, objective and unbiased,
and selecting the best option based on the analysis.
- Organizational Skills: Is the ability to organize
the work to make the most efficient use of available time. It is expressed
in such forms as monitoring and checking work or information, insisting
on clarity of roles and functions, etc.
- Results Orientation: Is the overall concern for working
well and surpassing a standard of excellence. Focuses on results to
be achieved, promotes best practices, measures performance and makes
adjustments to improve both efficiency and effectiveness. Takes ownership
of personal work objectives, as well as the objectives that may exist
through collaboration with others.
- Self-Control: Is the ability to keep one's emotions
under control and restrain negative actions when provoked in order to
preserve impartiality and neutrality in decision-making. It also includes
the ability to maintain stamina under continuing stress and during times
of change.
- Cultural Competence: Is the ability to take into
account the social and cultural conditions, norms and beliefs prevailing
in claimants' milieu of origin in assessing the credibility or plausibility
of their actions. This involves the ability to question one's own cultural
assumptions, a willingness to understand a perspective other than one's
own, and a commitment to recognize diversity both between and within
cultural groups.
Anyone interested in applying to become an IRB
member should submit their curriculum vitae to:
Director, Governor in Council (GIC) Secretariat Services
Immigration and Refugee Board
344 Slater Street
Room 14-063
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0K1
Facsimile: (613) 992-7773
email: Selections@irb-cisr.gc.ca
For media inquiries: (613)
947-0803
or media@irb-cisr.gc.ca.
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