Description:
Our client is a well-known and high-profile government agency. They need a strong and accomplished HR leader to support the organizations employees and the management team through a period of significant transition and change. This interim will coach, lead and inspire a diverse portfolio of over 30 HR professionals alongside providing critical insight and support to the COO and the broader executive leadership team. This is a classic ‘strategic interim’ engagement as you will have both operational and transformational objectives and be a key resource for the COO as they elevate the sophistication of the HR organization. To be successful in this role you will have a deep background in HR, have extensive experience working in large complex unionized environments and love a challenge.
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
- Take full operational responsibility for a diverse Human Resources function focusing on talent management, total compensation, employee and labor relations, recruitment, change management, organizational and leadership development, and learning.
- Coach, lead and inspire a large and talented team of HR professionals.
- Be the trusted advisor to senior leaders on all human capital issues that support organizational development and/or protect the organization.
- Execute a series of critical projects to benefit the organization.
- Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.
- Work with the COO to create a new succession planning and career pathing strategy.
- Work with the COO on a organizational redesign project.
- Partner with the unions to improve the employee experience.
- Oversees, develops, and executes talent acquisition and retention strategies and plans, including directing the implementation of the organization-wide employment programs for recruitment and retention strategies, candidate identification and selection methods, and diversity and inclusion strategies and measurements.
- Develops and monitors strategies aimed at maintaining a healthy workplace culture including strategies, programs, and initiatives related to employee communications, engagement, and relations across all organization’s programs and offices.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in human resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or other similar area of study plus a Human Resources designation;
- 10+ years or more of relevant work experience with an emphasis on employee engagement, employee experience, organizational effectiveness, ED&I or other related HR disciplines;
- Progressive experience in a complex unionized environment;
- Expert knowledge of compensation, employee and labour relations;
- CHRL or CHRP designation preferred;
- Demonstrated achievement in strategy development and execution;
- Strong, well-developed business acumen with a proven ability to influence and impact others;
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills;
- Proven experience in leading large change initiatives.