Manager - Human Resources

This posting is for one perm full time position.

This position is currently under review for exclusion.

The Human Resources Branch at Health and Social Services is dedicated to professional growth and career development. We are creative, innovative, and excited by new challenges. We are committed to delivering excellent client service and collaborating with our partners and stakeholders to collectively enhance the well-being of Yukon citizens.

Becoming a part of our team, you are not just another resource but an integral part of a collaborative, supportive, and innovative workplace. Your actions will be a direct contribution to creating something better. Working closely, sharing workloads, information, and ideas our team-oriented work culture at its core is supportive, approachable and available to each other and our business partners.

You will be responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of our human resource branch while coaching and mentoring the members in our community of practice while ensuring exemplary principle-based practice. You will provide expertise to complex accommodation, conflict and performance/labour relation and recruitment files, while providing oversight to a full range of human resource practices and services.

Our ideal candidate is a person who demonstrates, practices, and leads from a creative, purposeful approach, is hands-on, enjoys engaging in meaningful conversations, and truly values others. To be successful in this role, you will need to be well versed in managing multiple priorities and competing directions while ensuring care and attention to the development of direct reports. This position requires you to have excellent people skills, be confident in your abilities, assess risk and impact at an advanced level and able to work with interruptions and changing priorities. If this describes you, you could be a great fit for our team.

Take the next step in your human resource career path with us and help us shape an organization that moves people forward!

For more information about this position or about the recruitment process, please contact: Cheryl Berkers, Director, Human Resources at [email protected]

Essential Qualifications

Please submit your resume/cover letter clearly demonstrating how you meet the qualifications listed below. Please note selection for further consideration will be based solely on the information you provide in your resume and cover letter; ensure you use a month/year to month/year format and include the duties you performed in each of your positions.

• Degree or diploma in Human Resource Management or other relevant discipline with a focus on Human Resources, or significant recent experience in human resources in the public sector;
• Considerable recent experience leading a range of human resource management services, such as accommodation, recruitment and selection, training and development, and labour relations in a unionized environment; and,
• Recent experience supervising staff and leading teams; including coaching and developing employees preferably in the practice of human resources.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Suitability

Candidates will be expected to demonstrate their competence according to the standard set by the Yukon Government Core Competency Framework. This competition will specifically focus on, but does not limit itself to, the following competencies:

Demonstrating Client Focus: Creates a client-focused culture for the entire organization and engages others in providing outstanding service to internal and external clients.

Developing People: Fosters the learning and development of others through supportive relationships. Transfers expertise and builds the long-term leadership capability of others by teaching, coaching, and/or mentoring them.

Thinking Strategically: Takes a comprehensive, long-term view, critically assessing options and implications, while linking decisions to strategic goals.

Influencing Others: Generates commitment while inspiring others. Builds coalitions internally and externally, to reach the organization’s goals by using a variety of methods and adapting influence approaches, and by effectively using knowledge of how the organization really works.

Promoting Common Values and Ethics: Promotes the establishment, development and application of positive organizational values, ethics, and standards of conduct.