Senior Manager, People Operations
Top Benefits
About the role
Applications will be accepted until 9:00am EDT on Tuesday, 5 August 2025 EDT
Be a Driving Force Behind People, Purpose, and Performance. Are you a strategic HR leader ready to help shape the future of our workforce? MSF Canada is looking for an experienced and visionary Senior Manager, People Operations to lead the evolution of our People strategy, culture, and systems.
Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, this role is central to building a high-performing, inclusive, and resilient organization. You'll oversee the full employee lifecycle—integrating talent, well-being, culture, and organizational effectiveness—through progressive HR practices grounded in humanity, integrity, and results.
In this role, you will:
- Lead HR strategy and operations across Canada, from recruitment to retention, performance to HR policy
- Collaborate with senior leaders to align HR practices with organizational goals and values
- Champion a workplace culture that is inclusive, supportive, and mission-driven
- Guide and develop a high-performing People team
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation in Ontario and Quebec
- Drive innovation in HR processes using data and project management tools
The complete job description is available HERE.
You bring:
- Broad experience across People/HR functions including talent acquisition, policy, compliance, and organizational design
- Proven leadership of diverse, high-impact teams
- Deep knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practices
- Strategic thinking with the ability to align people strategies to organizational outcomes
- Advanced Excel and data fluency, and a working knowledge of project management tools
- Bilingualism in French is highly beneficial
MSF Canada will provide:
- Starting 4 weeks' of vacation per year
- Access to an Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Flexible work hours and a hybrid working model (minimum 40% in office)
- An accessible open concept, shared office space with bookable workstations (consisting of sit/stand desks, swivel chair, laptop with dock and double monitors) and various sized meeting rooms
- A commitment to incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion in everything
- 5% RRSP contributions (no employee matching required)
- Health Spending Account
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- Group insurance (Life, Dependent Life, AD&D)
- Peace of Mind plan (prescription drugs, accidental dental, hospital care, etc.)
- Annual professional development budget
- A positive and innovative office culture is based on core values of humanity, integrity and results
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada; MSF Canada is not able to support or relocate candidates from outside Canada.
About Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada recruits medical and non-medical staff to join our teams here in Canada and abroad. All of these people bring professional abilities, practical experience, as well as a commitment to and concern for the people they help.
MSF is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation created by a group of doctors and journalists in 1971. We help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care.
MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.Our principles of independence, neutrality and impartiality are at the core of everything we do.
Our network of medical, logistical professionals and administrative staff work in more than 60 countries.
Our medical teams carry out more than nine million patient consultations a year. Our activities run from vaccination campaigns to complex surgery in conflict zones.
From building hospitals to recruiting local teams, our non-medical staff make sure our field projects run smoothly, no matter what happens.
Join the movement.
Senior Manager, People Operations
Top Benefits
About the role
Applications will be accepted until 9:00am EDT on Tuesday, 5 August 2025 EDT
Be a Driving Force Behind People, Purpose, and Performance. Are you a strategic HR leader ready to help shape the future of our workforce? MSF Canada is looking for an experienced and visionary Senior Manager, People Operations to lead the evolution of our People strategy, culture, and systems.
Reporting to the Director of Human Resources, this role is central to building a high-performing, inclusive, and resilient organization. You'll oversee the full employee lifecycle—integrating talent, well-being, culture, and organizational effectiveness—through progressive HR practices grounded in humanity, integrity, and results.
In this role, you will:
- Lead HR strategy and operations across Canada, from recruitment to retention, performance to HR policy
- Collaborate with senior leaders to align HR practices with organizational goals and values
- Champion a workplace culture that is inclusive, supportive, and mission-driven
- Guide and develop a high-performing People team
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation in Ontario and Quebec
- Drive innovation in HR processes using data and project management tools
The complete job description is available HERE.
You bring:
- Broad experience across People/HR functions including talent acquisition, policy, compliance, and organizational design
- Proven leadership of diverse, high-impact teams
- Deep knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practices
- Strategic thinking with the ability to align people strategies to organizational outcomes
- Advanced Excel and data fluency, and a working knowledge of project management tools
- Bilingualism in French is highly beneficial
MSF Canada will provide:
- Starting 4 weeks' of vacation per year
- Access to an Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Flexible work hours and a hybrid working model (minimum 40% in office)
- An accessible open concept, shared office space with bookable workstations (consisting of sit/stand desks, swivel chair, laptop with dock and double monitors) and various sized meeting rooms
- A commitment to incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion in everything
- 5% RRSP contributions (no employee matching required)
- Health Spending Account
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- Group insurance (Life, Dependent Life, AD&D)
- Peace of Mind plan (prescription drugs, accidental dental, hospital care, etc.)
- Annual professional development budget
- A positive and innovative office culture is based on core values of humanity, integrity and results
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada; MSF Canada is not able to support or relocate candidates from outside Canada.
About Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada recruits medical and non-medical staff to join our teams here in Canada and abroad. All of these people bring professional abilities, practical experience, as well as a commitment to and concern for the people they help.
MSF is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation created by a group of doctors and journalists in 1971. We help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care.
MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.Our principles of independence, neutrality and impartiality are at the core of everything we do.
Our network of medical, logistical professionals and administrative staff work in more than 60 countries.
Our medical teams carry out more than nine million patient consultations a year. Our activities run from vaccination campaigns to complex surgery in conflict zones.
From building hospitals to recruiting local teams, our non-medical staff make sure our field projects run smoothly, no matter what happens.
Join the movement.