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The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) is responsible for engaging with Divisions and Programs/Departments within S.U.C.C.E.S.S. on all Human Resources (HR) matters and providing support to the Divisions and Programs/Depts with their workforce plans. The HRBP helps to ensure that HR plans across the divisions and programs are consistent and aligned with the organization’s strategic plan. The HRBP provides human resources advising to internal client groups on Employee Relations (ER) matters, workforce and staff planning to facilitate recruitment plans and resource allocations, conducts workplace investigations and makes recommendations upon conclusion of investigation findings. The HRBP provides support to the overall HR Department functions and is responsible for developing and facilitating training and development sessions for Managers and staff on HR topics. This position is also responsible for managing the recruitment and selection process under their business groups.

Reports to: Senior Human Resources Manager

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Organizational Development:

• Supports HR strategic initiatives within their assigned client groups on matters such as audits, HRIS/HRMS projects, succession planning, and compensation reviews
• Conducts regular scheduled business reviews with assigned client groups
• Aligns the assigned client groups’ business plans to the organizational strategic plan through advising and engaging directors and managers
• Ensures business practices are equitable and compliant across client groups within the organization

Employee Relations:

• Escalated point of contact for employees on enquires related to HR matters based on established processes and guidelines
• First point of contact for supervisors and managers on enquires based on established processes and guidelines
• Provides managers with employee relations support, guidance and recommendations in all areas of people management, including coaching and performance management
• Reviews and initiates actions to resolve employee concerns and escalates as appropriate
• Facilitates timely resolution of all employee relations issues and workplace conflict, including conducting workplace investigations
• Guides managers of the client groups to ensure that documentation is completed, and all requirements are met before disciplinary and/or termination is performed

Recruitment & Selection:

• Supervises Talent Acquisition Specialists under their assigned client groups
• Engages with client groups for workforce and staffing planning to facilitate recruitment plans and resource allocation

• Guides managers of the client groups to ensure that documentation is completed, and all requirements are met before hiring
• Reviews and assesses the employment lifecycle and works with HR management on creating sound recruitment and retention strategies
• Leads job analysis as required, including creating and reviewing job descriptions for approval
• Ensures that all templates, forms and guides are up to date, including screening and interview templates and Recruitment Guide
• Ensures that ATS procedures and best practices are being followed by the recruitment team and hiring managers
• Monitors effectiveness and efficiency of ATS, including providing recommendations to improve its usage

Training & Development:

• Provides training/coaching to managers to ensure an engaged and productive workforce, including talent management and performance management
• In collaboration with the managers, ensures all regulatory training is conducted on annual basis (e.g. health & safety, bullying in the workplace, preventing harassment and discrimination in the workplace, and privacy)
• Provides training/coaching to staff on employment regulations and internal policies, procedures and best practices

Performance Management:

• Monitors and reviews the performance management process, including providing recommendations for its improvement
• Ensures that templates, forms and guide are up-to-date and aligned with applicable policies and best practices
• Assists in the development, implementation, and maintenance of the performance management system

Staff Engagement:

• Monitors and reviews the HR analytics for their internal client groups to advise on areas such attrition rates, internal mobility rates, recruitment and fill ratios, staff engagement rates, training rates, and exit interviews trending; including providing recommendations for improvement
• Supports the development and implementation of action plans to address improvement priorities based on staff engagement survey results

HR Service Delivery:

• Maintains HR management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures
• Drafts and updates policies in the HR manual accordingly
• Manages all correspondences and information related to employee relations and personnel information in a confidential manner
• Provides support in implementing human resources programs and services with established processes and guidelines
• Conducts exit interviews, including providing analytics and recommendations
• Assists with analytics reporting in areas such as training & development, recruitment and selection, performance management, and employee relations
• Performs other related HR duties as assigned

Education, Training and Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of generalist experience in Human Resources including employee relations, recruitment and selection, training and development and performance management experience
• Supervisory experience is an asset
• Post-Secondary education specializing in Human Resource Management or suitable combination of education and experience

• Excellent knowledge in provincial and federal employment laws, regulations and related legislations
• CPHR designation preferred
• Previous experience working with non-profit organizations an asset

Job Skills and Abilities:

• Professional written and oral business communication skills
• Ability to effectively collaborate in a team environment and able to work independently
• Effective and efficient in decision-making, conflict resolution, problem-solving and risk management
• Excellent advisory and coaching abilities
• Excellent client service focus
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills
• Ability to support change management
• Displays tact, diplomacy, good judgement and use discretion with highly confidential and sensitive employee information.
• Computer proficiency in MS Office applications and HRIS/HRMS systems

Additional Information:

• Criminal Record Check Required
• Ability to work evenings and weekends as required
• Ability to travel to S.U.C.C.E.S.S. worksites as required

Main Purpose and Function

Reporting to the Manager of Labour Relations, the successful applicant will work as part of a comprehensive team of LR professionals working to develop LR strategies that support key corporate and HR business-unit specific objectives.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

As part of the LR Team, the LR Consultant works collaboratively and strategically as a member of the Human Resource Services Department, liaising with other HR and operational staff to provide advice on a wide range of issues with a particular focus on labour relations including:

• Interpretation/application of collective agreements and labour legislation, dispute resolution, grievance and arbitration work.
• Taking a leadership role in collective bargaining processes.
• Conducting investigations of formal complaints under the City’s Respectful Workplace and Human Rights and Harassment Policies.
• In collaboration with HR and LR colleagues, managers, staff and our unions, assisting the organization to achieve desired objectives and addresses issues of concern in a manner that fosters a positive employee relations environment.

Qualifications

• Candidates will have considerable background in labour relations with an excellent understanding of labour jurisprudence, relevant labour legislation and demonstrated experience in the area of consultation, grievance handling, collective bargaining, dispute resolution, investigations and negotiation skills.
• Candidates will possess a related university degree or diploma; considerable experience in consultative or advisory roles and a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and strategically in a team environment.
• Candidates will also have excellent communication, interpersonal, coaching and facilitation skills with a demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, clients and union officials.
• Experience with strong team building skills and a proactive approach to problem solving in a rapidly changing environment would be an asset.
• Skilled at anticipating business needs and identifying risks and opportunities, and moving to action, you are a proactive problem solver who has worked extensively in a rapidly changing environment.
   

Where operationally appropriate and subject to change, the City of Vancouver has a Flexible Work Program. This program allows staff to work remotely 1 – 4 days a week from locations that are a daily commutable distance from their work at a City worksite.  At this time this position is eligible to be part of the Flexible Work Program.

Application Close: March 20, 2024

The City’s COVID-19 vaccination policy is currently suspended and as a result, vaccination against COVID-19 is not required at this time. However, should circumstances change and the City deem it necessary to re-introduce such policy, you may be required to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in order to be eligible to continue performing your duties.

Main Purpose and Function

The HR Systems and Reporting Analyst works as a member of the HR Systems and Analystics team. Interfacing with key business leaders from client departments, this role enables the City to leverage HR data and metrics supporting strategic and operational decisions. The HR Systems and Reporting Analyst also supports HR transformation by driving accountability, improving transparency and increasing efficiency.

This role partners closely with other Corporate Support teams to foster a culture of data driven decision making across the city by working with client departments to increase HR data literacy, enable data exploration, and disseminate business intelligence tools and processes amongst end users.

The HR Systems and Reporting Analyst provides key labour relations support by providing reporting related to the operational impacts of collective agreements as well as creating ad hoc reports and financial models for collective bargaining.

This role also provides HR systems support and system administration as required.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Reporting and Analytics:
  • Responsible for creating, distributing, analyzing, optimizing and automating reports on a scheduled basis or Ad hoc as needed
  • Designs, develops and maintains dashboards with a variety of data visualization tools using interaction design best practices
  • Assists client departments in identifying opportunities for HR metrics for Workforce Planning, JEDI (justice, equity, decolonization and inclusion) and other key HR related processes and priorities.
  • Leads business analysis for department specific and city-wide data visualization using UX Design principles including creating and maintaining end user personas and prototyping
  • Supports the bargaining process and Labour Relations requests through reporting and data analysis including financial modelling
  • Proposes and validates high value datasets and governance guidelines for enablement through the City’s Enterprise Data Enablement process, building and deploying automated dashboards and reporting processes using business intelligence tools while leading the associated projects.
  • Works with client departments to foster data literacy and user adoption of self-serve business intelligence tools and processes though co-ordinating testing and end user support and training.  
  • Works with client departments to uncover and remediate data quality issues.
  • Performs Seniority calculations and other union related reporting
  • Creates and updates Privacy Impact Assessments related to new data initiatives
• Systems support and maintenance:
  • Reviews and responds to Help Calls related to HR systems, including in-house applications and SAP SuccessFactors.
  • Supports HR Systems Administration as required

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Statistics, Business Analytics, Information Technology or a related discipline and 5 years of data analysis and visualization or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Experience supporting and administering HR Management Systems such as SAP SuccessFactors 
• Experience supporting and facilitating multi-stakeholder initiatives and engagements at all levels
   

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of SAP applications and their reporting capabilities including Payroll, CATS, HCM, SuccessFactors
• Knowledge of HR metrics and the ability to make strategic reporting recommendations to support data driven business decisions
• Knowledge of HR related business operations and processes
• Advanced MS Excel skills
• Knowledge of SAP Business Warehouse or Enterprise Data Warehousing solutions is an asset
• Ability to create dashboards by mastering Business Intelligence tools such as SAP Analysis for Excel, Power BI, Lumira Discovery or SAP Analytics Cloud
• Ability to extract and analyse large data sets
• Ability to perform complex financial modeling related to time entry and payroll
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external contacts at all levels
• Ability to quickly master and stay on top of new technologies
• Business analysis skills and experience including the ability to formulate, evaluate, assess, and as appropriate, document and implement system design requirements, standards, best practices and tools
• Proven project management and negotiation skills, capable of managing multiple tasks.
• Good problem solving and conflict resolution skills to resolve business issues from an analytical perspective
• Payroll or Accounting knowledge is an asset
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, manage multiple priorities and respond to requests in a timely manner.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and present complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Enhanced Reliability Check required

Where operationally appropriate and subject to change, the City of Vancouver has a Flexible Work Program. This program allows staff to work remotely 1 – 4 days a week from locations that are a daily commutable distance from their work at a City worksite.  At this time this position is eligible to be part of the Flexible Work Program.