Workforce Consultant

**Job ID**: 53612

**Job Category**:Human Resources

**Division & Section**:Engineering & Construction Services, Business Services & Workforce Planning

**Work Location**: 55 John Street, Toronto

**Job Type & Duration**:1 Temporary (12 month) vacancy

**Salary**:$86,716.00 - $112,255.00

**Shift Information**: Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week

**Affiliation**: Non-Union

**Number of Positions Open**: 1

**Posting Period**: 12-FEB-2025 to 26-FEB-2025

**Major Responsibilities**
- Develops and implements business solutions to support divisional/sectional organizational development efforts, including organizational assessments, change management, communications, workforce planning, employee engagement, workforce and leadership development, business process improvement, and organizational redesign.
- Identifies development needs and trends in the organization, recommends and implements a variety of programs and initiatives.
- Designs, develops, collects and analyzes evaluation data and needs assessment data to create workforce business solutions and/or update appropriate training programs on an ongoing basis. Monitors learning gaps, trends and leading practices to inform talent management decision making and strategy development.
- Develops and implements execution plans associated with the section/division strategic plan which includes plan development, communication, documentation, delivery, tracking, monitoring and improvements.
- Develops and implements a process to strategize with stakeholders in the development, planning and forecasting of workforce complement and competency needs for current, short and long term business needs
- Build strong partnership and consulting relationship with divisional/sectional management groups to understand business strategy, development needs, deliver services to address human capital needs to achieve continuously improvements
- Develops and maintains contact with other organization development professionals and is familiar with current theory and practice in the field
- Undertakes research and analysis and makes recommendations relating to workforce and organisational strategies, systems and initiatives.
- Provides strategic direction on the analysis of workforce issues, short and long term planning and the development of related policies and procedures.
- Leads assigned projects, ensuring effective teamwork and communication, high standards of work quality and organizational performance and continuous learning.
- Measure the effectiveness of business solutions to address the workforce issues
- Develops and implements a process to strategize with stakeholders in the development, planning and forecasting of workforce complement and competency needs for current, short and long term business needs.
- Ensures that corporate policy and division principles are reflected in workforce business solution.
- Recommends, designs, re-engineers and facilitates policies, procedures and processes regarding program specific requirements and to support high quality service, continuous improvement and service equity.
- Ensures the systematic and timely gathering, aggregation and analysis of labour market intelligence on a diverse range of workforce requirements for current and future implications to serve as a basis for resource strategy options and plans.
- Provides leadership in the effective use of consulting concepts, models, analytic frameworks, technologies and tools.
- Provides input into and administers assigned budget, ensuring that expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
- Ensures that the project expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
- Travels to various locations as required to conduct ECS business.

**Key Qualifications**
- Post-secondary education in Human Resource Management and/or Labour Relations, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Considerable experience developing and delivering human resource strategies/services in multiple functional areas in a large organization.
- Considerable experience overseeing end to end recruitment processes in a unionized public or private sector organization.
- Considerable experience in human resource services functions in a major unionized public or private sector organization related to Labour/Employee Relations, including experience handling complaints and conducting or supporting workplace investigations
- Considerable and proven experience with consultation skills at all levels within the organization and demonstrated ability to interact with clients.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to initiate, coordinate and deliver high quality project outcomes on schedule, coupled with demonstrated knowledge of change management principles.
- Excellent conflict resolution skills, critical thinking, judgement and political expertise to identify solutions, facilitate consensus and persuade/negotiate with a variety of stakeholder