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Senior Human Resources Generalist

Aug 26, 2024

Work at Creative BC

Join our team and champion economic development across B.C.’s creative sector

We work collaboratively as a bridge between government and industry to elevate British Columbia’s creative sector through leadership, collaboration, and investment. Creative BC is an independent non-profit with the mandate to provide a highly specialized suite of programs, initiatives, and services to sustain and grow B.C.’s creative industries and promote them around the world. As a member of our team, you’ll understand the business behind creativity and become part of the Province’s only economic development agency of record to help steward this sector.

Build on the organization’s history and reputation by bringing your own integral contributions to our sector-related activities and supports. These include granting programs, motion picture tax credit programs, B.C. film commission services, and overall sector development, promotion, and marketing.

Together we’ll deliver value to the provincial economy with supports and services for the industries we serve, fostering their local capacity and global strength. We’ll do this through partnership with, and support for, thousands of talented people within B.C.’s creative storytelling industries’ exciting and vast provincial ecosystem. Join us and support the B.C. artists, entrepreneurs, creators, companies, festivals, associations, unions, guilds, studios, supply and service businesses and more who together bring made-in-B.C. stories and creative content to life.

The Role 

Creative BC is now seeking a Senior Human Resources Generalist. Reporting to the Director, Business Operations, the successful candidate will become part of our Operations Department. The Operations Department bridges Creative BC’s strategy with its daily operations. From communications and marketing to IT and information systems, human resources, and research, our team are community-builders, connectors, and knowledge keepers. We understand how people, ideas, inclusion, and technologies come together at Creative BC to gain insight, foster talent, and improve influence and success for the sector we serve. 

Within the Operations Department, your specific responsibilities will include:

  • Employee Relations: Manages employee relations by addressing employee concerns, resolving workplace conflicts, and promoting a positive work environment, ensuring that company policies, practices and employee resources are fair and consistently applied.
  • Recruitment and Onboarding: Oversees and deepens managers’ skills in the recruitment process, including job scoping, posting, applicant assessments, interviews, and selection. Coordinates preparations, delivers orientation, and supports managers to establish and implement a smooth onboarding process for new hires, including review and enhancement of department training programs.
  • Performance Management: Develops and implements performance management systems and cycles, providing support and coaching to leaders and managers on performance-related issues, ensuring follow-up and follow-through.
  • Compliance and Legal: Ensures compliance with labour laws and regulations, keeping up to date with changes in employment laws and advising the leadership team and management teams on necessary actions.
  • Training and Development: Creates continuous learning opportunities for employees by gaining a deep understanding of Creative BC’s software, systems, service, and program delivery obligations and opportunities. Assesses capacity, identifies skills gaps, training needs, and designs opportunities for professional growth – by individual, by department, and organization-wide.
  • Creative Equity Roadmap: Contribute to enhance and improve Creative Pathways™’ partner site, the Creative Equity Roadmap, and to help Creative BC embody its resources and best practices for the creative industries relevant to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Please read the full job description here. 

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Qualifications

 

  • 5-7 years of HR generalist experience in a mid-sized organization.
  • Bachelor or equivalent degree or experience in Human Resources or another related field.
  • Experience partnering with managers and senior leaders to support HR activities.
  • Experience within a government agency or similar environment with experience relevant to privacy considerations in a body subject to FOI requests is considered a strong asset.
  • Canadian Human Resource Professional designation and membership considered a strong asset.

Compensation

This is a Full-Time Permanent role. The starting salary for this position will be based on the successful candidate’s competencies, knowledge, and skills while considering internal pay structures and equity. The typical annual salary range to start is $85,000 – $88,000, underpinned by Creative BC’s compensation philosophy that rewards and motivates performance. As part of Creative BC’s total compensation package, this position is eligible to participate in a generous benefits package that includes: participation in Creative BC’s extended health and dental plan; three weeks’ vacation annually; matched participation in B.C.’s Public Service Pension Plan, and more.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for this hybrid work position, you must be able to work at Vancouver’s Creative BC Offices on any given day of the week—with requirements to be present on a standard weekly basis for collaboration with your team and also as required to service our clients’ ongoing need for in-person meetings.  In addition, to be eligible, you must be able to work in Canada on a continuous basis throughout your employment with Creative BC. Therefore, if this is a permanent role, you must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident to accept the permanent job offer. Eligibility to work in Canada is granted through citizenship, permanent resident status, or a work permit in the form of authorization to work in Canada under the federal Immigration Act. If you have a valid temporary work permit, you may be eligible for temporary or term work, but only until your work permit expires or is renewed.

Values

With values of integrity, innovation, inclusion, and wisdom, Creative BC is committed to reconciliation and strives to reflect the communities we serve. To ensure diverse teams, we encourage and prioritize applications from members of groups that are historically, persistently, and systemically underrepresented including Indigenous, Black and people of Colour; people identifying as 2SLGBTQIA+ and/or non-binary; people living with visible and invisible disabilities; and members of other equity-seeking groups. Creative BC also encourages applicants to self-identify, if they wish to do so, during the application process.

How to Apply

Please submit both your cover letter and resume to recruitment@hydramc.ca. The position will remain open until filled. Creative BC is an equal-opportunity employer. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at careers@creativebc.com.

 

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