Specialist, Employee and Union Relations

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Atira Women's Resource Society Full time

**Requisition Number**: SPECI002032
- Full-Time (Indeterminate)
**Hours of Work**: Avg. 40 hrs. per week; Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
**Compensation**: $63,000 annually, plus a generous leave, benefits and pension package disqualification
**Program & Location**: Vancouver Gastown office
**Deadline: By noon, Thursday June 19th, 2025**

**About Us**:
Atira Women's Resource Society, an award-winning nonprofit organization known for its inclusionary hiring practices and where a job is more than a pay cheque. We offer the opportunity to work alongside a remarkable group of women working to make the world a more just place, one woman, one child, one home, one job at a time.

**About the Job**:
Reporting to Manager, Employee & Union Relations or their designate, Employee & Union Relations Specialist provides labour relations consultation, advice, and support to people leaders for Atira’s 4 business units
You will Draft Letters of Expectations, Letters of Warning, Letters of Suspension, and Termination Letters etc, while providing coaching and guidance to managers on all aspects of the performance management process; educate and support managers in the delivery of discipline, interpretation of Collective Agreements, Memoranda of Agreement, and internal policies; provide guidance on probationary reviews, including how to conduct evaluations, deliver feedback, and follow up; participate in training and development initiatives related to performance management and labour relations; conducting presentations to program leaders; conduct workplace and incident investigations including, reviewing the incidents, assessing evidence, conducting interviews and analyzing timekeeping records and preparing comprehensive investigation reports; managing enquiries through the PowerApps system; updating internal Labour Relations tracker to ensure visibility on all performance management, investigations and grievances in progress; documentation and filing of all employee incident reports (HR Reports), LOE’s and disciplinary correspondences.

**About You**:
sustainability and you take smart risks and make tough decisions without agonizing.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor of Human Resources or other relevant bachelor’s degree
- Minimum 5 years working in Human Resources ideally as a Labour Relations Investigator, as a Generalist or Business Partner, with at least 3 years in a unionized environment

Or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- Experience working with UltiPro UKG HR system or similar HRIS.
- Experience working with FreshDesk ticketing or similar helpdesk tracker
- Experience with Sharepoint or similar shared resource directory

**Application Process**
For a current list of postings, please visit our website at atira.bc.ca/careers

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

**Experience**: Preferred
- Minimum 5 years working in Human Resources

**Education**: Preferred
- Bachelor's degree or better in Human Resource Administration

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