Talent Acquisition Specialist

**Status**: Full time, 1 year, temporary
**Location**: Ottawa, Ontario, or Toronto, Ontario (hybrid)
**Closing date**: April 30, 2025
**Salary range**: $77,520 to $96,900 per year
Canada’s Drug Agency is a pan-Canadian health organization. We are an independent, not-for-profit organization headquartered in Ottawa, with a satellite office in Toronto. Created and funded by Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial governments, we drive better coordination, alignment, and public value within Canada’s drug and health technology landscape. We provide Canada’s health system leaders with independent evidence and advice so they can make informed drug, health technology, and health system decisions, and we collaborate with national and international partners to enhance our collective impact.
We are proud to be a 2025 National Capital Region Top Employer. Canada's Drug Agency was named one of the National Capital Region's top employers for the second year in a row. This recognition celebrates our dedication to fostering a work environment that nurtures growth; innovation; and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). It reaffirms our ongoing efforts to create an outstanding workplace where our employees thrive and feel valued.
Primary Focus
What do the daily responsibilities look like?
**On any given day, the Talent Acquisition Specialist will**:

- deliver full-cycle recruitment processes, leveraging their experience to build strategies that address both short-term and long-term hiring needs
- build and maintain ongoing talent pipelines and impactful networks through social media platforms, diversity and inclusion partners, professional associations, and educational institutions
- support our inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) initiatives and embed this philosophy and its values into talent acquisition programs
- track and report on the progress of assigned requisitions
- collaborate on other People and Culture projects.

Is this the right role for you?
**The Talent Acquisition Specialist will likely have**:

- a postsecondary education in human resources or a related field
- a minimum of 3 years of experience leading the full recruitment life cycle, with an ability to build talent pipelines of top talent and hard-to-fill roles
- experience working in a fast-paced environment with proven attention to detail
- the ability to build and foster trusting relationships, internally and externally
- the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels
- the ability to be an innovative team player and out-of-the-box thinker
- exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.

What will set you apart?
**The following are considered asset qualifications**:

- experience with the Dayforce recruitment module
- fluency in French.

What’s in it for you?
**At Canada’s Drug Agency, you will find**:

- a team-focused, supportive, and inclusive work environment
- a competitive compensation package, including participation in the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) — 1 of Canada’s largest and most successful defined benefit pension plans
- a comprehensive benefits package for employees and dependents, including health, dental, life, and travel insurance; a health spending account; and an employee assistance program
- paid time off (including a minimum of 4 weeks of vacation leave as well as sick leave and life leave, a December holiday closure, and other leave options)
- opportunities to work with and learn from highly specialized professionals
- personal growth through professional development opportunities, corporate training, and support for continuing education
- a friendly culture that supports community engagement
- the opportunity to make a difference for people living in Canada and effect positive change.

At Canada’s Drug Agency, we actively celebrate, support, and flourish through our differences. Our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for building the future of health care. We demonstrate a commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) through continuous training, modelling inclusive behaviours, and proactively managing biases. We highly encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people of all places of origin and religions, people with disabilities, people who are neurodivergent, people who are Black or racialized, Indigenous people, women, and people from the 2SLGBTQ+ community. We also provide accommodations during all phases of the recruitment process. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let the Talent Acquisition team know when they contact you. We will work with you to meet your needs.
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