HR Specialist

The Opportunity:
**Company, Department: Emera Inc, Corporate Human Resources**

**Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia**

**Closing Date: July 31, 2025**

**The opportunity**:
We are currently looking for a HR Specialist to join our Corporate HR team on a **12-month term with possibility for extension**. Reporting to the Director, Total Rewards, the HR Specialist will be responsible for collaborating with members of the HR team and will focus on researching and implementing HR best practices, advancing Total Rewards team initiatives and HR enhancements, and assisting with the administration of programs as required.

**Key elements of the role include**

As the HR Specialist, you will be responsible for:

- Researching and analyzing HR enhancements to advance the employee experience of Emera employees. This work will advance our goal to provide highly valued HR programs.
- Managing HR projects through their full lifecycle. From researching ideas through stakeholder collaboration, costing, approvals, communication, implementation and change management.
- Work with HR colleagues on projects assisting with peer review calculations and governance.
- Supporting the communication and research of Total Rewards and HR programs.

**What skills will make you successful?**
- A bachelor’s degree or human resources designation combined with a minimum of 3 years’ experience.
- Researching, analyzing and promoting initiatives relating to the employee experience.
- Proven stakeholder management experience - in this role you will collaborate with and manage multiple external and internal stakeholders at all levels.
- Keen attention to detail and proven problem-solving skills with a customer service focus.
- Ability to work with digital technology and effectively utilise technology to drive change and departmental enhancements.
- Strong communication skills - both written and verbal.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong relationship building capacity to ensure a positive work environment promoting, change, development and psychological safety for the team.
- Desire to maintain a positive work environment promoting development and psychological safety for the team.

**The perks of joining our team? We offer**:

- ** Health & Wellbeing**: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
- ** Grow Your Career**: Opportunities to advance within and between our operating businesses, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.
- ** Community Engagement & Care**: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching & volunteer programs, and scholarships for children of employees.
- ** Competitive Compensation**: A comprehensive benefits plan, short-term incentive plan, and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

**The Perks of joining our team? We offer**
- Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness Centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
- Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.
- Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching; volunteer programs, various committees and employee resource groups, and scholarships for children of employees.
- Competitive Compensation: Short-term incentive plan and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan(after 1 year service).

**Inclusion at Emera**:
**Recruitment & Promotion Policy**
The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values by our recruitment policy and values, we are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants.