Human Resources Manager

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Duties

Your role encompasses the planning, coordinating and managing for the development and delivery of the Ontario Waterways’ Human Resources management programs, services and activities.

You will manage a dedicated team of human resource staff, and work with, and support a diverse team of managers with a range of backgrounds including operations, asset management, water management, business development, environmental services, realty, external relations and finance.

As a member of the field unit management team you will you will be expected to exert influence and provide guidance to help managers exercise their authorities in an ever evolving HR landscape. Your challenges will include: leading human resources projects/initiatives, formulating strategies to advance people management/employee development, providing strategic advice and leadership for the resolution of issues, grievances and investigations, and developing/maintaining collaborative working relationships with the local employee organizations. As part of this work, you will lead teams of staff located in both Peterborough where the Trent-Severn Waterway headquarters is located and Smiths Falls, where the Rideau Canal is based.

You will love this job if you like showing initiative and being action-oriented: You love complicated challenges and solving problems. You thrive in situations where you have many things going on at the same time. The promotion of teamwork in a healthy, positive and productive workplace is important to you.

You will love this job if you enjoy working effectively with others: You build genuine relationships based on trust, and seek collaborative and creative approaches to meeting common goals. You are receptive and sensitive to the diverse views of others.

You will love this job if you demonstrate integrity and respect: You take ownership of anything you commit to, and follow it through to completion. Your conscientiousness, your integrity, and your commitment to doing things right create your reputation.

You will love this job if you like thinking things through: You know you are able to take calculated risks, to meet new challenges, to deliver. You encourage open discussion with the right people to assess and solve problems. You take action based on the sound understanding of situations.

Work environment

Based out of either Peterborough or Smiths Falls, Ontario, you will serve as the Human Resources Manager for the Ontario Waterways Field Unit of Parks Canada. This unit is responsible for the management and operation of two world-class heritage waterways:
• Rideau Canal National Historic Site and World Heritage site, stretching for 202 km from Ottawa to Kingston; and
• The Trent-Severn Waterway Historic Site, which runs for 386 km from Port Severn on Georgian Bay to Trenton on Lake Ontario.
Both waterways wind their way through a variety of communities and facilitate recreational boating, paddling, picnicking and other pursuits at dozens of lock stations. The unit is also responsible for dam operations that manage water levels and flows through a large area of central and eastern Ontario.

Intent of the process

The current need is for an indeterminate, bilingual (CBC) position. However this process may be used to create a pool of qualified candidates to staff similar position(s) with various tenures, security levels and/or language requirements.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

Contact information for 3 references.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education:

Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in human resources management, labour or industrial relations, psychology, public or business administration, organizational development, education sciences, social sciences, sociology, or in any other field relevant to the work to be performed.

OR

Certification as Chartered Professionals in Human Resources;

OR

Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable experience in human resources.

Grandparenting Clause:
Indeterminate and term incumbents of positions in the PE group on September 1, 2004 at Parks Canada or in the Public Service who do not possess the education level prescribed above, are deemed to meet the minimum education standard based on their education, training and/or experience. Further, employees at Parks Canada who were appointed in the PE group on an indeterminate basis between September 1, 2004 and October 3, 2008, when this standard was amended, are also deemed to meet the minimum education standard.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
• Recent* and **significant** experience in providing corporate or operational human resources services in at least two (2) of the following disciplines and/or functions including but not limited to: Labour Relations; Classification; Staffing/Resourcing/Recruitment; Learning and Professional Development; Human Resources Planning; Disability Management;
• Experience in providing ***strategic*** advice and support to management on a wide variety and scope of HR issues
• Experience in managing resources (time, information, human and financial resources) to achieve planned goals and priorities.
• Experience in leading HR projects within a team environment, or in managing complex files****.
• Experience in building and maintaining good work relations with peer groups, unions and internal stakeholders.

NOTES:
*Recent refers to experience acquired within the last five (5) years.
**Significant experience is defined as the depth and breadth normally acquired through performance of the duties for a period of approximately three (3) years
*** Strategic advice includes planning, consultation, analysis and/or implementation of HR services for an organization and in consultation with management of an organization in order to effectively achieve program and/or client operational objectives.
****Complex files include those that have multiple interrelationships and interdependencies, as well as, those that involve multiple stakeholders.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Various language requirements
• English Essential
• Bilingual imperative CBC

Information on language requirements

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of people management legislation, policies, trends, and practices.

Competencies:
• Thinking things through;
• Showing initiative and being action-oriented;
• Working effectively with others;
• Demonstrating integrity and respect;
• Client service orientation;
• Business acumen;
• Communicating effectively orally and in writing.

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

ASSET EXPERIENCE:
AE1: Experience in providing operational services and strategic advice to clients relating to Labour Relations;
AE2: Experience in providing operational services and strategic advice to clients relating to Occupational Health and Safety;
AE3: Experience in leading HR transformation project and/or initiative;
AE4: Experience in leading change management;
AE5: Experience providing people management advice and support in the federal Public Service;
AE6: Experience working with historic waterways.

Operational Requirements:
• Willingness to wear a Parks Canada uniform and Personal Protective Equipment, when required;
• Willingness to work irregular hours, overtime, weekends and/or statutory holidays and provincial/territorial holidays, when required

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

• Possess a valid drivers license;
• Willingness to travel within the geographic boundaries of the business unit

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

HOW TO APPLY

You are required to submit your application online.

1. APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
Text and/or screening questions providing sufficient information to fully describe your experience, including supporting examples.

Candidates will be asked to provide proof of their education credentials at a later date.

2. RESUMES
Resumés will be used ONLY as a secondary source to validate the experience described in the cover letter.

3. OTHERS (if applicable)
Please identify clearly your substantive group and level and your employment status on your resumé and/or application form.

ASSESSMENT
∙ A written examination may be administered
∙ An interview will be administered
∙ Reference checks will be sought

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

Parks Canada Agency considers applications from all individuals who have legal status to work in Canada. Please indicate in your application the reason for which you are entitled to work in Canada: Canadian citizenship, pemanent resident status or work permit.

If you require accommodation at any stage of the process, please advise us as soon as possible.

Those selected for an interview should be prepared to provide the following information:
∙ Names of their references
∙ Proof of education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcipt.

Please submit your completed application, including all of the above-mentioned documentation. Failure to do so may result in your application being rejected.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

PLEASE NOTE: Our intention is to communicate with candidates via e-mail for screening/assessment purposes (including issuing screening results, and sending invitations for written tests and interviews). Candidates who apply on this selection process must include in their application a valid e-mail address and make sure that this address is functional at all times and accepts messages from unknown users. It is the candidate's responsibility to provide any changes to their personal information to the contact indicated on this job advertisement.

The essential qualifications that are listed in the statement of merit criteria are mandatory. A pass mark will be established for each. Applicants may be appointed to the position even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications. However, meeting these criteria is desirable and may be a deciding factor in choosing the person to be appointed. In the event that there are as many applicants who meet the essential qualifications as there are vacancies, the manager may decide not to assess some or all of the asset qualifications.

Successful candidate(s) must meet and maintain the conditions of Employment throughout their employment.

Persons who have received pay in lieu of unfulfilled surplus period, a Transition Support Measure (TSM) or an Educational Allowance and are re-appointed to the Parks Canada Agency are required to reimburse an amount corresponding to the period from the effective date of such reappointment or hiring, to the end of the original period for which the TSM and education allowance was paid. Please contact Kari Ritchie, Human Resources Manager, if you are one of these individuals to find out how this applies to your particular situation.

Persons who are in receipt of a Canadian Government Public Service pension and are considering this employment opportunity with the Parks Canada Agency, should contact the PWGSC Public Service Pension Centre (1-800-561-7930) in order to determine the impact of an appointment on their pension benefit entitlements.

The Parks Canada Agency is established as a separate employer in the Federal Public Service under the Financial Administration Act. Persons appointed to the Agency continue to be part of the Public Service. The Parks Canada Agency operates under its own human resources framework outside of the Public Service Employment Act and in line with values of fairness, competence and respect, and its operating principles.

In accordance with paragraph 8(2)(a) of the Privacy Act, information or material, whether provided directly by the candidate or otherwise obtained by the selection board, used during the selection process for the purpose of assessing a candidate may be used as part of the selection review and recourse processes. Such relevant information may be provided to third parties, such as other candidates or their representatives, who have a legitimate reason to be aware of that information.

Parks Canada is committed to the principles of diversity and employment equity under the Employment Equity Act, and strives to ensure that our workforce reflects the diverse nature of Canadian society. We encourage women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of a visible minority group to self-identify in their cover letter.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

Travel cost for individuals who are not Federal Public Servants will not be covered.

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

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