Strive Living Society is seeking a highly motivated, experienced, and skilled individual to join our growing office as anHR Recruiter with a focus on Talent Acquisition.

The HR Recruiter will work within the existing Recruitment team in creating exceptional candidate experiences by providing agency-wide recruitment and selection services in support of several program departments. The incumbent is an experienced recruitment professional with knowledge of/membership to strong candidate networks, preferably but not limiting to the Community Living Services sector. They will be able to collaborate with our program departments across the agency to understand their recruitment needs and execute a strategy for fulfilling those needs. They must be an ambitious self-starter and team-player.

Strive is a non-profit registered charity providing residential and community inclusion supports to children, youth, adults, and older adults throughout the lower mainland since 1988. If you can relate to our mission and vision, we want you to work for us!

Strive’s Mission is “To partner with individuals of diverse abilities to lead healthy, fulfilling lives by providing a foundation of support.”

Strive’s Vision is “Building a continuum of services to support the needs of individuals at every stage of life.”

Strive ensures the health and safety of all employees by acting with an abundance of caution and adhering to guidelines from the Ministry of Health, mandating regular safety training, and providing employees with access to personal protective equipment.

Why work for Strive?

• Employer paid Criminal Record Check Clearance

• Paid orientations

• Paid trainings (First Aid, CPR, Mandt, etc.) and professional development

• Employer paid extended health benefits including prescription medication, paraprofessional services, vision, etc. *

• Employer paid dental benefits including orthodontic coverage *

• Employer contribution to Municipal Pension Plan (MPP) *

• Employer paid Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)

• Competitive starting compensation

• Competitive paid annual vacation

• Generous statutory holiday pay

• Generous paid Health Bank

• Flexible schedules to accommodate life/work balance

• Referral bonus program

• Inclusive environment with team building events and cultural celebrations

• Health and wellness activities and incentives

• Access to community member discounts

• Ongoing support, mentoring, and recognition to help with engagement and career growth

• Some benefits have eligibility requirements of surpassing three (3) months and securing a regular position of 20hrs/week or more. The benefits and criteria may change from time to time at the discretion of Strive.

The key accountabilities for this role include but are not limited to:

• Conduct the end-to-end recruitment process and plan with Operations, including but not limited to:
  • Write and post job advertisements for staff and volunteers
  • Review applications and call candidates to pre-screen for eligibility
  • Conduct interviews, shortlist, and select candidates
  • Communicate with, prepare and collect documentation from applicants/personnel, including offer letters
  • Onboard, orientate, and offboard employees/students/volunteers
  • Create and maintain electronic and paper files for HRIS
• Remains current and applies expert use of talent networks to proactively source and pursue qualified candidates
• Contributes to recruitment related projects based on knowledge of best practices, to support continuous improvement
• Identifies, develops and maintains critical strategic external partnerships to support the talent sourcing approach for all programs in Operations. Participates in the selection of vendors for talent sourcing
• Construct talent pipelines of pre-qualified, available, and interested candidates
• Identify and network with relevant talent pools to actively engage passive candidates, generating conduits for current and future opportunities
• Collaborate with other Recruitment Recruiters to compile active and passive candidate target lists though research, cold calling, phone screens, social and professional networking;
• Have a knowledge and/or willingness to understand employment standards, internal policy, and Collective Agreements
• Produce documents and reports as required
• Data Entry, filing, and maintaining files and information
• Assisting other HR and office personnel as needed

Experience and Qualification Requirements:

• Proven experience in full cycle recruitment, preferably in a non-profit sector
• Experience viewing recruitment with an inclusive hiring lens
• Comfortable working with senior leaders, giving and receiving feedback, and working within a team to provide the right approach to recruitment
• Ability to assess multiple sources of information and make informed decisions independently
• Determination to improve candidate experience, and streamline and improve recruitment effectiveness
• Balances multiple, competing priorities, is self-directed, makes decisions and meet challenging deadlines whilst maintaining a service mindset
• Post-secondary education in a relevant discipline (i.e. Human Resources, Business Administration, etc.)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Proficiency in working within an HRIS platform (i.e. UKG Ultipro)
• Experience with working in Cloud environments (i.e. Microsoft 365, SharePoint/ShareVision) would be an asset
• Knowledge and experience with Social Services/Community Living would be an asset

**Job Type:**Part-time Temporary (24 hours).

**Duration:**1 year

**Weekly Schedule:**Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8:30am to 4:30 pm - Hours are flexible due to operational requirements, with occasional evening and weekend work as required.

**Compensation:**Salary is negotiable based on experience and can start from $34.74 per hour.

**Start Date:**ASAP.

**Work Location:**Coquitlam, Hybrid Remote/Telecommuting work arrangement eligible

**Note:**This opportunity may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, including work from home (telecommuting).

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*without precedence and without prejudice*

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Strive Living Society is an equal opportunity employer which does not discriminate against age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability.

Strive Living Society is grateful to operate on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Nations.

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