Human Resources Advisor

Town of High River

Permanent, full time

**Human Resources Advisor**

At the Town of High River, people come first. We are looking for a _Manager, Financial Services _to join our organization and contribute to our culture focused on accountability, excellence, and connection.

**The Community**

High River provides the warmth and familiarity of a small town, featuring countless outdoor trails and parks that await your next adventure. Our downtown offers a variety of unique stores and businesses who take pride in fostering connection in our community. High River is a people-first community where families put down roots for generations. Nestled within Foothills County with the Rocky Mountains framing the view to your west, our community of 14,000 is rooted in people and promotes an environment to help you build lasting relationships.

**The Organization**

Through the dedication and passion of our 150 employees, we deliver important services to the community. Our purpose, or why we do what we do, is because we want to make a difference in our community now and for generations to come (our ‘why’). To achieve this, we inspire and respect one another, we can be counted on, we are better together, and we dare to be different (our ‘how’).

We’ve embarked on a workplace culture journey that has enhanced our commitment to people; both our employees and the community we serve. We have identified three pillars to achieve our workplace culture**:A*ccountable,**C**onnected and**E*xcellence (ACE).

**The Role**

In line with our strategic vision, Town Plan and workplace culture, Accountable, Connected and Excellence (ACE), this position will be required to demonstrate ethical, respectful, and professional leadership by inspiring others to take personal ownership and contributing to the development and alignment of organizational strategy and goals. The employee in this position must build effective teams by influencing and encouraging open communication and teamwork. The incumbent will develop others to achieve their best while demonstrating a service-centric approach.

**Duties**:

- In alignment with the organization’s workplace culture pillars, guide and support leaders to actively enhance the workplace culture amongst their team
- Provide support and advice to Leaders with complex employee relations matters, including performance management, progressive discipline, intervention strategies, team building, investigations, terminations, etc. while ensuring legal due diligence and legislative compliance
- Provide support and advice to employees focusing on enhancing the employee experience
- Lead and support change and transformation efforts utilizing established strategies, programs, tools and resources to support employees and leaders through change
- Assist manager in identifying, developing and implementing strategies to enhance diversity, equity and inclusion
- Mitigate possible organizational risk by identifying and advising of legal and ethical vulnerabilities in all areas of Human Resources
- Coach and support Leaders to enhance their people management skills with a focus on the workplace culture pillars
- Assist Manager in identifying, researching, and coordinating corporate internal and external training and development opportunities, training evaluation processes, and leading internal training as assigned.
- Support development, coaching, and training for individuals and teams
- Provide consistent interpretation and support regarding employment standards, employee agreements, and internal HR policy and procedures
- Research, design, implement, and make recommendations for modifications of Human Resource initiatives, policies, and programs in accordance with workplace culture goals, best practices, legislated standards, legal practices, and organizational needs.
- Lead assigned full-cycle recruitments, including supporting Leaders to define skill, knowledge, and aptitude requirements; develop or update job descriptions; identify recruitment marketing strategies; ensure legal and organizational hiring standards are maintained
- Oversee complex disability management and attendance support programs (STD, LTD, WCB), including development of accommodation, return to work, and modified work plans
- Lead workplace support programs such as Workplace Referrals, Substance Abuse and Relapse Prevention Programs, Intermittent Absence Reviews, and other programs initiated to support employee well-being in the workplace
- Support the design of the compensation structure, including the compensation review, internal and external market comparators, and job evaluation processes
- Analyze Human Resources performance metrics (e.g. absenteeism, exit interviews, etc.), provide recommendations for improvement and enhancement to Human Resources programs and services based on data and metrics
- Collaborate with internal Communications to develop content and assist the Manager of Human Resources in the overall internal communication st