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About the role

  • Associate HR Director leading strategic HR, employee relations, and talent programs for The Nature Conservancy’s Canada-U.S. conservation teams. Managing a geographically dispersed HR team.

Responsibilities

  • Build strategic partnerships with leaders and HR team members across multiple Business Units
  • Implement human-centered HR initiatives supporting TNC’s mission, values, and organizational goals
  • Lead service delivery and strategic direction for employee relations, compensation, talent management, benefits, payroll, staff development and training, organizational development, performance management, and recruiting
  • Manage a geographically dispersed team of HR professionals across Canada and the Western United States
  • Serve as primary liaison between the People Team and Business Unit leaders
  • Provide strategic counsel on organizational design, workforce planning, operational efficiencies, job creation or elimination, and resource optimization
  • Advise managers on TNC policy, SOPs, HR processes, employment law, employee engagement, and management practices
  • Facilitate conflict resolution, conduct investigations, and recommend remedies
  • Coach managers and staff on goal setting, feedback, development, and high-performance practices
  • Advise on complex performance management, employee relations, and separations, including terminations
  • Support job design, job descriptions, salary guidance, recruitment, and offer terms
  • Lead annual pay equity analysis and support equitable promotion, compensation, and talent decisions
  • Develop and implement talent reviews, succession planning, performance processes, and recognition practices
  • Assess learning needs, coordinate HR training, and build hiring manager capability
  • Develop and implement HR standards and client service practices across Business Units
  • Lead or participate in cross-functional project teams
  • Supervise and develop a small HR team supporting geographically dispersed business units
  • Contribute to psychological safety, innovation, and results orientation
  • Optimize a new HR operating model

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years HR-related experience supporting 300+ employee client groups in a global, matrixed, complex environment, or equivalent combination
  • Experience developing and leading multiple HR-related projects and implementing strategic HR programs
  • Experience supporting employees in both Canada and the United States
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Federal and Provincial employment law including FLSA, ESA, and other related standards
  • Experience managing human resource functions in Canada and the United States, including employee relations, compensation, performance management, benefits, payroll, staff development/training, organizational development, or recruiting
  • Experience partnering with senior managers to identify root causes of HR issues and implement HR strategies and initiatives
  • Experience managing complex employee relations, facilitating crucial conversations, and building consultative relationships
  • Experience supervising HR teams of 2 or more employees
  • Experience managing confidential employee matters and employee data in accordance with local laws and data privacy best practices
  • Experience using MS Office software for reports, data manipulation, and analysis
  • Ability to travel within the U.S. and Canada up to 10% of the time
  • Ability to work non-standard business hours as needed across different time zones
  • Multi-lingual skills and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated
  • Experience with complex employee mediation
  • Advanced understanding of HR concepts, processes, and services
  • Experience developing and implementing HR policies, guidelines, and procedures
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of emotional intelligence
  • Ability to develop working knowledge of relevant conservation issues
  • Experience leading teams and delivering HR services amid competing, time-sensitive priorities
  • Experience developing and delivering presentations and training
  • Advanced organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly visible environment
  • Successful completion of The Nature Conservancy’s background screening process

Benefits

  • Health care benefits
  • Retirement benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • Life insurance
  • Disability coverage
  • Employee assistance program
  • Other life and well-being benefits
  • Flexible work environment supporting employee health and well-being
  • Career development
  • Flexible schedules

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$165,000 - CA$170,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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