Generalist, People

**triOS College, Eastern College, and the Centre for Distance Education** are Canadian owned Registered Private Career Colleges in Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. We strive to be the very best at what we do, both in the eyes of our students and coworkers. It is the dedication of our employees that has resulted in being recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for 12 consecutive years. Our Colleges were founded on familial values and these have been retained for the last 30 years. We are truly a team in every sense and work collaboratively towards our common goal of preparing job-ready graduates. Our teams are highly motivated and passionate about the work they do and the impact they have on changing the lives of each student that studies at the Colleges.

**The Opportunity**

The People & Culture (P&C) Generalist will support the HR department in ensuring smooth and efficient business operations. The P&C Generalist is responsible for delivering all facets of recruiting success for triOS College and Eastern College, not including positions being hired to support international or online operations, providing leadership for and administers health and safety programs, and onboarding programs, conflict resolution. The HR generalist provides practical, consistent and proactive support, direction and advice to other managers and employees on HR procedure and policy. You will utilize a high degree of discretion and have experience working with highly confidential and sensitive information. An independent and critical thinker with excellent verbal and written communication skills, impeccable attention to detail, and an above average work ethic. You are prepared to be challenged and have the proven ability to work effectively with innovative minds in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.

**Key Responsabilities**:
Manage the full-cycle recruitment process, this includes:

- Maintain regular recruitment Meetings with hiring managers.
- Work with hiring managers in fulfilling hiring requirements.
- Lead the creation of a recruiting and interviewing plan for each open position.
- Manage the internal and external job posting process.
- Manage the recruitment workflow within the applicant tracking system.
- Efficiently and effectively fill open positions.
- Review applicants to evaluate if they meet the position requirements.
- Perform reference and criminal record checks for potential employees.
- Assist in interviewing and selecting employees at campuses where appropriate.
- Conduct regular follow-up with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting plans.
- Manage the employee referral program and process.
- Research new ways of using the Internet for recruitment.
- Build and maintain interview pre-screening questions.
- Build and maintain hiring manager interview questions.
- Build and maintain instructor qualifications by program.
- Build and maintain position qualifications.
- Provide support to other HR team members with recruitment needs when necessary.

**Employee Relations**
- Provide pragmatic and consistent guidance and advice to managers on grievance, attendance, disciplinary, health & safety, and performance issues.
- Raise proactive issues with managers, identifying practical solutions to complex and diverse HR issues, and recommend appropriate action plans.
- Compile and manage case management documentation, accompany, and support managers.
- Collect ongoing information regarding satisfaction of employee on salary and wage, working conditions, etc.
- Receive employee complaints and act accordingly to resolve them.
- Escalate complex employment issues to Manager of Human Resources.

**Employee Onboarding**
- Coordinate the onboarding program for new hires.

***Health & Safety**
- Maintain health and safety training records.
- Coordinate health and safety training activities.
- Oversee the joint health and safety committees and ensure regular inspections and reporting is completed.
- Maintain health and safety boards.
- Work with Field Service Technician to ensure that Fire Wardens are selected and trained.
- Work with Field Service Technician to ensure that fire safety drills are conducted for locations in standalone buildings.
- Coordinate annual risk assessment process to ensure completed at each location.

**Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIB)**
- Work closely with the diversity Council to develop and implement diversity, inclusion and belonging strategies
- Lead and support the diversity Council in various initiatives
- Identify new opportunities, and build roadmaps that advance our commitment to DIB's

***Administrative Duties**
- Manage the support centre FOBs, office keys and security code activation/deactivation tracking.
- Perform additional administrative duties as assigned.
- Perform other special projects as assigned.

**Knowdledeg and skill requirements**:

- Experience with general recruiting and technical recruiting.
- Strong relationship building ski