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Human Resources Advisor, Human Resources and Organizational Development
Required Position
Full-Time Appointment
Responsibilities
The Human Resources Advisor is part of the Service Excellence team providing foundational human resource services to a group of assigned clients. Reporting to the Director, Service Excellence, the Human Resources Advisor is part of a team delivering pro-active and valued added human resources services to support the Laurentian University community.
The Human Resources Advisor is responsible for:
Generalist Human Resources Services
- Delivers day to day client services related to employee recruitment, job evaluation administration and leave accommodation and return to work planning by proactively guiding the application and administration of collective agreements, relevant legislation, recruitment and selection, policies, systems and procedures and terms and conditions of employment;
- Promotes effective, transparent and pro-active employer/employee, labour and client relationships;
- Administers the employment contract renewal process with hiring managers, including, but not limited to working with stakeholders such as the managers, Union and budget/payroll/finance;
- Collaborates with others in Human Resources, budget/payroll/finance, regarding issues and developments in information systems, employee records, recruiting, training, job classification, and compensation to identify where systems and processes might need to be updated;
- Recommends and contributes to process, service and continuous improvements related to human resources services;
- Ensures employment changes are documented and communicated to stakeholders such as managers, unions, finance and payroll;
- Works with the leadership team to ensure consistency in the human resource service model.
Recruitment, Hiring and Job Evaluation
- Determines recruitment approach for qualified talent in consultation with the hiring manager;
- Prepares and leads the interview process including applicant qualification assessment, preparing interview materials, assess candidates and make hiring recommendations. Provide feedback as requested, to unsuccessful candidates;
- Ensures recruitment and compensation practices are followed, including Collective Agreement provisions, job evaluation administration and policies as applicable;
- Apply the job evaluation system principles to job postings;
- Identify changes in jobs that may impact job evaluation and conduct a preliminary evaluation of jobs for approval of the Director and/or in collaboration with a job evaluation committee;
Disability Management:
- Provides day to day administration of short term disability leaves;
- Develops, documents and updates return to work and accommodation plans in collaboration with the respective manager and as applicable with external disability management services;
- Organizes and leads return to work and accommodation meetings, in collaboration with union representatives.
- Sound judgment to facilitate disability/leave accommodation.
Administration
- Updates and maintains Human Resources related information on the University Intranet;
- Creates, updates and renews Letters of Agreement;
- Assists in the preparation and submission of HR related reports. Independently processes, reviews and generates reports and employee lists and identifies and/or completes action items;
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Post-secondary degree, in Human Resources, Business or a related field;
- Two to three years of related Human Resources experience in a unionized environment;
- CHRP designation or in-progress;
- Knowledge and experience with applying recruitment and selection best practices in accordance with policies and collective agreements;
- Able to work independently and take initiative as well as perform effectively as a member of a team;
- Sound knowledge of provincial legislation, best practices and employment standards in Ontario;
- Ability to contribute to the team through a result-oriented approach and building and maintaining productive and trusting relationships
- Strong computer skills, with experience with Microsoft and Google suites, Zoom, tracking systems, and HRIS;
- Exceptional customer service skills;
- Proven interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport with a diverse group of individuals. Able to deal courteously and effectively with people at all levels;
- Strong communicator with ability to guide educate in HR process and best practices;
- Critical thinking and sound judgment skills;
- Able to exercise tact and diplomacy and support people in a calm and effective manner in sensitive situations;
- Strong attention to detail;
- Ability to prioritize and organize in a fast-paced, high volume environment with frequent interruptions;
- Able to maintain a high level of confidentiality;
- Able to work independently and take initiative as well as perform effectively as a member of a team;
- Job evaluation and compensation experience is an asset;
- Disability/leave management experience is an asset:
- Continuous process improvement training and experience is an asset;
- Oral and written competency in both official languages (French and English) is required.
The official University hours of operation shall be from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, during, and including, the months from September to April, and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m Monday through Friday during and including May to August., amounting to thirty-three and three-quarter (33.75) hours per week.
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