Status: Temporary 16 months, Full-Time
Work Location:Hybrid, Vancouver B.C. (a minimum of 2 days in office)
Key responsibilities include:- Under the direction of the Director, P&T, provides guidance and support to leaders and employees on a wide range of HR needs that cover the entire employee life cycle from onboarding to offboarding. Supports consistent application of policies, processes, and practices across P&T functions.
- Working in partnership with client group leaders, manages full-cycle recruitment including posting, sourcing, screening, interviewing, coordinating testing, reference and background checks, as well as supporting candidate selection and job offer process.
- Conducts HR orientations, including providing HRIS training and coordinating benefits enrollment. Supports hiring managers throughout the onboarding and probationary process to ensure new hires joining the organization are set up for success.
- Builds effective partnerships with assigned client groups including developing a strong understanding of client's services and their business cycles. Compiles and analyzes HR metrics; identifies patterns, trends and issues; makes recommendations to support clients' people and staffing needs.
- Supports the performance management process by providing training, follow up and other coaching support as needed to ensure the program is used effectively to enable performance planning and meaningful performance development and career conversations.
- Creates and maintains a variety of documents, mostly of a confidential nature, including but not limited to: offer letters, excluded terms of employment, employee performance plans, correspondence, organizational charts, letters including letters of discipline, job postings, reports, proposals, presentations, external compensation surveys.
- Acts as the first point of contact regarding HR-related inquiries. In consultation with the Director, P&T, provides initial guidance and support on a variety of matters including, but not limited to, policy and collective agreement interpretation, absence and leave management processes and issues management, performance management, respectful workplace concerns, and conflict resolution.
- Coordinates employee disability health claims and/or WorkSafeBC claims and return to work programs. Maintains accurate employee data in the HR system to facilitate payroll and benefits.
- Maintains accurate, current and complete employee records, including ensuring the integrity of the HRIS data, online files, and other HR documentation. Maintains SME knowledge of the HRIS to help troubleshoot issues, provide training, and support ongoing releases and/or enhancement of the system.
- Under the direction of the Director, P&T, assists in the implementation of talent management strategies in alignment with organizational priorities, particularly in attraction, retention, performance development and culture building.
- Keeps up to date applicable BC legislations. Assists in monitoring and updating policies, processes, practices, systems, tools, templates, and resource materials to ensure compliance.
- Under the direction of the Director, P&T, supports continuous process improvement.
- Demonstrates a commitment to ongoing learning related to Indigenous cultural safety and humility and supporting organizational actions towards addressing indigenous-specific racism in BC's health care system.
- Fosters and maintains an organizational culture that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion, mutual respect, teamwork, and service excellence.
Your education & skills- Bachelor's degree in human resources, plus 3 to 5 years of relevant experience or an equivalent level of education, training, and experience.
- HR Generalist background with strong in-house full-cycle recruitment experience preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to exhibit tact and discretion in preparing, disclosing, and handling information of a confidential and/or sensitive nature.
- Proven analytical skills with superior accuracy and attention to details.
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Good understanding of relevant legislations, including BC Employment Standards, Human Rights, Workers Compensation and Privacy legislations.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing including the ability to respond politely and confidentially to both internal and external inquiries.
- Strong writing skills.
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to build trust and rapport with others.
- Demonstrated organizational skills and ability to prioritize workload and work under time pressures to meet deadlines.
- Strong ability to work independently and collaboratively as a team.
- Demonstrated flexibility to meet and adapt to changes in organizational priorities.
- Demonstrated customer service skills.
- Demonstrated ability to provide guidance to others.
- Prior knowledge and experience using SaaS based HR systems, preference for UKG experience.
- Advanced skills related to the Microsoft Office suite (especially Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) required.
- Demonstrated understanding of diversity, inclusion, and cultural humility as they apply to health care is an asset.
- Experience with employee group benefits plans an asset.
- Experience working in a unionized environment and with collective agreements an asset.
- CPHR designation is an asset.
- Knowledge of Canadian colonial impacts on Indigenous people in social and health contexts, including social, economic, political, and historical realities impacting Indigenous communities and knowledge of Indigenous-specific anti-racism and accompanying reports (e.g. The Truth & Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action (2015), the In Plain Sight Report (2020), and Reclaiming Power and Place's Calls for Justice (2019)) is an asset.
- Demonstrated understanding of equity, diversity, inclusion, and cultural humility as they apply to health care is an asset.
How to ApplyIf you are interested in this position, please apply online by 11:59pm on September 25 2026. This opportunity will remain posted until filled; however, priority consideration will be given to those who apply by the deadline. To apply and see a full list of our current opportunities or to learn more about working at the BC College of Nurses & Midwives, please visit our website at Careers at BCCNM.
