Director, HR and Employee Relations

**Job Description**:
**About the Department of Human Resources**:
Mount Royal University’s dedicated team of Human Resources professionals is here to provide a range of services for prospective and current employees including: professional development, talent acquisition, consultancy services, and information on policies, payroll, benefits, and more.

**About the Role**:
Reporting to the Associate Vice President, Human Resources (AVP, HR), the Director, Human Resources, Employee and Labour Relations, is an integral member of the Human Resources team. The Director, Human Resources, Employee and Labour Relations will manage complex employee and labour relations matters, ensure HR programs, policies and initiatives support and enable University and faculty/departmental strategic priorities, promote performance management, and work with the AVP, HR on assessing and managing employee complaints through the investigation process.

***Responsibilities**:
**Support the University strategic directives and lead and support HR initiatives**:

- Support the execution of HR services and programs with tools and information that meet the needs of our clients, create efficiency, deliver integrated people solutions, and foster collaboration.
- Provide HR partnering support while working with the HR team to leaders across the University and ensure key HR practices are aligned with employment standards and provide integrated solutions to the organization that mitigates risk and improve processes and procedures.
- Key contributor in the continuous improvement of HR policies, procedures, programs, initiatives, and processes in line with legislation and industry best practices.
- Strong leadership, coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and relationship management skills.
- Oversee and provide direction and guidance on programs, policies and services with regard to terms and conditions of employment for management and exempt employees.
- Work collaboratively with the AVP, HR and the rest of the HR leadership team on matters of HR governance, strategic and operational planning, and professional/consultative budget management.

***Labour relations strategy and oversight**:

- Provide leadership, direction and support at an operational and strategic level, on the design, development, delivery of employee and labour relations services.
- Support labour relations strategy through the development and implementation of a framework with streamlined, repeatable and best-practice approaches toward planning, negotiating, implementing and administering collective bargaining agreements.
- Provide strategic recommendations to leadership on labour best practices to facilitate strategic vision.
- Build and foster relationships with bargaining units and the overall University community related to soliciting input, feedback, and buy-in on a variety of employee and labour relations-related matters.
- Participate in and support the Employee and Labour Relations team and Faculty Relations in bargaining new collective agreements, negotiating letters of understanding, grievance and arbitration settlements and other complex legal agreements.
- Support and provide guidance related to employee conduct matters and associated investigations process, policies and services.
- Research and prepare briefing materials for approval by the Board of Governors including bargaining mandates.
- Acquire and translate pertinent changes to employment-related legislation, and the impact on the University and the labour/employee relations environment.
- Consult with legal counsel regarding labour strategies, legislation or other applicable labour relations issues; develop and support maintenance of legal advice repository.
- Responsible for staying abreast of related legislation and jurisprudence to act as an expert resource to Employee & Labour Relations, Human Resources and the University as a whole and ensure prompt and accurate service delivery.

***HR business partnerships**:

- Advance the HR consulting model, in partnership with other functional areas of HR, by proactively identifying business needs and priorities in order to inform the development of effective programs, strategies and solutions.
- Demonstrate strong business partnering skills, act as a thought partner in advising and influencing leadership at all levels of the organization.
- Provide professional and confidential advice to management and senior leadership on sensitive matters and act as an escalation point for complex issues.
- Serve as an expert on all things people, offering coaching and guidance to the HR Business Partner team and senior leadership.
- Partner with other HR teams and leadership to assist in the creation, development and execution of effective people strategies, programs, and initiatives.
- Provide leadership in the development of new HR policies, procedures, programs and initiatives.

**Qualifications**:
**Education**:

- University Bachelor Degree in a related discipline
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