Overview:

Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Lead, the Associate Talent Acquisition Partner works with Talent Acquisition Partners to understand entry level and clerical talent requirements. The position leads and manages entry level and clerical attraction activities through advertising, sourcing, and other related activities.

The Associate is responsible for full cycle recruitment efforts including attracting, assessing, and hiring candidates to fill high volume vacancies and partners with hiring leaders to recruit and hire both internal and external candidates.

Responsibilities:

• Provide internal talent attraction support to the Talent Acquisition Partners for entry level positions.
• Provide external talent attraction support to the Talent Acquisition Partners for entry level, clerical, and student positions.
• Manage external talent communities to support ongoing requirements.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition Partners to identify top external talent for open requisitions.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with the Talent Acquisition Partners and contributes to meeting the hiring goals of the organization.
• Act as the main point of contact for clients with high volume recruitment needs.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with clients and contributes to enhancing knowledge and ability regarding staffing practices corporately.
• Ensure a fair, consistent, efficient, and effective hiring process is followed.
• Partner effectively with peers and cross-functional partners to deliver exceptional service (Talent Acquisition Partners, Compensation, Total Rewards & HR Administration, HR Business Partners).

Qualifications:

Education:

• Degree or diploma in business, commerce, human resource management or another related field.

Experience:

• Three years related experience in talent acquisition and recruitment and selection.
• Experience in a unionized environment is an asset.

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• Build positive working relationships and provide excellent customer service.
• Source and select future talent, including leveraging multiple talent attraction channels.
• Proficiency with related applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ATS, HRMS), and web recruitment tools, including social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook).
• Manage multiple urgent tasks and deadlines.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proven problem-solving skills and analytical ability.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Work independently and as a team member.
• Maintain absolute discretion and maturity in handling sensitive/confidential data.

Employee Benefits:

Health benefits

We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:

• flexible health, dental and vision plans
• health spending account
• travel health coverage
• other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy

Financial security

In an effort to support financial security, we offer:

• registered pension plan
• group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
• sick leave to cover short-term disability
• long-term disability

Wellness

We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture. This includes:

• vacation entitlement
• maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
• bereavement and family responsibility leaves
• employee and family assistance program
• mental-health programming
• onsite employee gym facility (Cityplace)
• discounted gym memberships
• wellness account

Diversity and inclusion

Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us. We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life.

Employee recognition

It’s important to recognize our employees for their contributions. Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done.

Professional development

We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up to date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program.

Safety and health

In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.