HR Consultant

**What you'll do**:

- Manage the recruitment process, including working with managers to address vacancy management, developing recruitment postings, interview guides, and assessment tools and facilitating the interview/offer process.
- Facilitate new employee first day orientation process and provide support and recommendations to manager’s regarding probationary periods.
- Complete job classifications of in-scope positions, determining the classification level and providing written rationale.
- Provide advice and guidance to managers regarding collective agreement and policy interpretation, as well as performance management and sensitive personnel issues.
- Research and develop policies for the Human Resources Policy Manual.
- Foster and maintain positive working relationships with employees.
- Provide advice and guidance to employees and managers regarding workplace issues.
- Provide support to employees and managers on workplace accommodation.
- Provide leadership to employees, managers and divisions to ensure benefit plans and relocation benefits are understood.
- Maintain job descriptions.
- Assist with annual updates of employee handbook and OH & S handbook.

**Qualifications**:

- To be successful in this position you will need a degree or diploma in Human Resources, supplemented with three to five years’ related experience in HR, ideally in a unionized setting.
- Working knowledge of human resources practices and principles.

**Conditions**:

- A criminal record check is required.
- Must possess a valid driver’s license and be willing to travel throughout the province.

**Competencies**:

- **Service Excellence**:Delivers and provides additional information or service beyond customer expectations. Builds rapport and committed relationships. Offers support to colleagues and customers that are in distress.
- **Personal Leadership and Development**:Models integrity and inclusiveness by being open, acting with empathy, sharing resources/knowledge across teams and being respectful of all skills and viewpoints. Balances organizational, team and individual commitments. Listens and influences others to generate enthusiasm.
- **Strategic Thinking**:Helps others understand how their work goals and activities relate to the organization’s vision, mission and strategic direction. Provides input to help formulate corporate priorities. Commits to achieving success at the team and organizational level.
- **Decision Making**:Explains the rationale for decisions and how it may impact the workplace. Balances risk and potential implications before making a decision. Makes timely decisions even when information is unclear or limited.
- **Innovation**:Adapts methodology and ideas quickly for immediate or anticipated changes in the environment. Looks for incremental improvements in work processes and results. Reflects on current environment and how the change will be received.
- **Analytical Thinking**:Asks pointed questions and does research to learn more about the issue. Reflects on past experience and organizational practices and processes to develop consistent action plans. Makes revisions and alters solutions when required.
- **Team Collaboration**:Brings forward ideas, solutions and concerns to help the team problem solve and build solutions. Develops relationships by establishing respect, trust, support and understanding. Seeks the opinion of others when developing solutions.
- **Building Organizational Community**:Actively builds relationships by establishing respect, trust, support and understanding. Ensures cross-team collaboration for organizational effectiveness. Shares resources to solve mutual problems.
- **Communication**:Presents constructive feedback or difficult communication in a manner that supports expectations and fosters an open conversation. Uses open-ended questions, active listening and dialogue to encourage others to provide information about underlying needs or issues. Identifies and presents information that will motivate, persuade, engage or influence others.
- **Accountability**:Promotes integrity in others by maintaining consistent values and performance standards. Takes personal responsibility for fulfilling own commitments and the commitments of the team. Recognizes and celebrates successful individual and team outcomes.
- **Performance Management**:Continuously strives to meet or exceed organization and unit goals and objectives. Makes timely decisions to move work forward; takes responsible risks to improve services and achieve goals. Takes/provides opportunities to learn and demonstrate new knowledge and skills.
- **Planning and Risk Management**:Divides objectives into manageable tasks and sets deadlines to keep projects moving forward. Continually adapts priorities and responsibilities in response to changing needs. Facilitates the work of others by providing tools to help move the work along.
- **Process Management**:Recognizes and uses corporate culture, organizational pr