The HR Manager & Senior Consultant has a dual function within NVision and is an integral part of the NVision Leadership team. Under the direction of the NVision Insight Group Inc. Senior Manager of Corporate Services (internal focus) and the Senior Executive Officer (external focus), the HR Manager and Senior Consultant is responsible for providing leadership and oversight of internal and external HR initiatives.

Internal Focus: The HR Manager & Senior Consultant develops and implements management, administrative and human resource policies and procedures, supervises staff, and supports the SEO and company service areas with planning, development, implementation, and management to achieve the company’s long term operational and financial goals.

External Focus: The HR Manager & Senior Consultant is responsible for leading research and development of service offerings and securing HR related consulting projects and revenue generating HR work. The HR Manager & Senior Consultant will complete planning, implementation, and management of the HR external projects, which might be stand-alone HR services, or in conjunction with other company projects that have an HR component.

Location:

This position will be based in Ottawa, Ontario but is open to remote workers who are highly qualified and able to demonstrate effective remote management abilities.

Travel may be required for meetings, project tasks, engagement and fieldwork.

What you will do:

Internal Human Resources

⦁ Develop HR systems, policies, processes, and programs that create a strong corporate culture aligned with NVision mission, vision, and values.
⦁ Evaluate, revise, design, and implement corporate employment program elements, including: job descriptions, staff benefits package, compensation and performance management systems, and policies and procedures.

⦁ Oversee compliance with legislation and regulatory management.
⦁ Support conflict resolution and management of compliance breaches.
⦁ Evaluate, revise, design, and implement the corporate professional development program

⦁ Provide corporate oversight of human resource activities across the company, including developing HR work processes and templates, overseeing annual performance review process and work planning, overseeing and developing recruitment processes, overseeing and developing onboarding processes, and overseeing communications with staff regarding HR policies, procedures, and onboarding.

⦁ Provide corporate oversight of the mental health and wellbeing and work-life balance of staff.

⦁ Monitor staff adherence to policies and procedures.
⦁ Support with strategic HR planning.

External Consulting

⦁ Identify potential clients and opportunities in the HR space. Initiate and follow up with contacts as potential NVision clients, employees and sub-contractors.
⦁ Identify and participate in approved marketing activities.
⦁ Contribute to identifying and developing new product opportunities that NVision can take to the marketplace, which may include working with other service areas within NVision to develop product or service areas and opportunities based on NVision expertise.

⦁ Develop high quality, competitive and profitable proposals.
⦁ Provide clients with high quality products and services that meet or exceed client requirements and expectations.

⦁ For non-HR led projects, carry out project tasks at the discretion of the Project Manager.
⦁ For HR led project, act as project manager including identifying project team members, completing agreements with associates and sub-contractors, reviewing and approving work completed by team members, and managing project finances.

⦁ Travel, as required, for activities including, but not limited to client meetings, project tasks, engagements, and field work.

Other Responsibilities

⦁ Participate in professional development for individual learning and development goals, and

to ensure appropriate levels of education and professional accreditation are achieved and/or sustained.

What You Bring

⦁ University, college and/or HR designation or equivalent experience.

⦁ Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation is an asset.
⦁ Comfort working in cross-cultural settings, particularly with Inuit, Métis and First Nations groups and organizations.

⦁ Experience in a senior HR advisory or management role, including:
⦁ Experience aligning HR systems, policies, processes, and programs with Indigenous values an asset.

⦁ In depth understanding of the principles and practices of human resource management, compensation, and benefits packages, including current industry best practices.
⦁ Knowledge of employment, labour, and human rights legislation.
⦁ Knowledge of management consulting preferred.
⦁ Direct supervisory experience.

Valued Indigenous Identity, Knowledge and Lived Experience

⦁ Indigenous ancestry (First Nations, Inuit, Métis) that can be confirmed (if requested by NVision), through one of the following ways:
⦁ Documentation such as Indian status card, Inuit enrolment card, evidence of enrolment as a modern treaty beneficiary, Métis citizenship card.

⦁ Lived experience demonstrated through cultural reclamation process or relationship to/with Indigenous communities, Nations or Peoples, and/or

⦁ A letter outlining your Indigenous ancestry, community and family/kinship ties.
⦁ Knowledge of an Indigenous language, in any capacity, from beginner to advanced, written or oral.

⦁ Experience working with Indigenous clients, communities, or organizations.

What We Offer

⦁ Flexible schedule and ability to work from home.

⦁ 3 weeks’ vacation plus 2 discretionary days per year.
⦁ Increasing vacation allowance with seniority.
⦁ A comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.

⦁ 10 paid sick days per year.
⦁ 12 statutory holidays each year.
⦁ Profit sharing.
⦁ RRSP matching plan.
⦁ Cell phone subsidy.

⦁ Commitment to your ongoing learning and development, including funding for professional development courses and 5 paid training days per year.

To Express Interest

Please send your resume and cover letter to hr@Nvisiongroup.ca. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

For more information, please contact Heidi Metcalfe at hmetcalfe@nvisiongroup.ca.