At Doctors of BC our vision is to promote a social, economic, and political climate in which members can provide the citizens of BC with the highest standard of health care, while achieving maximum professional satisfaction and fair economic reward.

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THE JOB**: People & Culture Partner (18 Month Contract)**

The starting salary range falls within the minimum to mid-point of the salary range.

Starting Salary Range: $80,066- $100,083

Reporting to the People and Culture Manager, the People & Culture Partner (PCP) is an integral part of the P&C team, providing expertise and working collaboratively with the entire team to support all P&C initiatives. The People & Culture Partner brings deep and broad HR experience to guide leaders and employees through policy application, employee relations, recruitment and onboarding, while building strong relationships with assigned client groups.

Acting as a strategic business partner and trusted advisor, the People & Culture Partner drives initiatives that impact employee engagement, organizational effectiveness, talent management and workforce planning. By applying workforce insights and systems thinking, the People & Culture Partner sparks meaningful action and aligns HR practices with organizational priorities. As a transformational leader, the People & Culture Partner fosters two-way dialogue, supports development and succession planning, and partners with leaders to prepare teams for change in ways that strengthen both performance and engagement.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Relationship Building (A):

• Provides informal functional leadership of peers and lower levels as a technical expert and may lead small project working teams
• Builds common understanding of issues and priorities between client groups.
• Ability to set shared objectives necessary for obtaining feedback and assistance.
• Frame issues to present opportunities and difficulties.
• Maintains effective communication by sharing ideas, best practices, trends and exploring opportunities with client groups.
• Attends and maintains relationships with relevant formal and informal professional groups and organizations.

Change Advocate (A):

• Ability to lead the planning and implementation of change programs that have a wide-ranging impact on client groups in a multiple stakeholder environment
• Experience providing occasional input regarding people resource decisions for the department and may participate in recruitment
• Partners with leaders to identify opportunities for significant process enhancements and recommends changes that impact the strategic direction.
• Ability to set expectations for monitoring and feedback systems and reviews performance trends.
• Ability to evaluate progress and involve peer and team members in analyzing strengths and weaknesses in performance.
• Looks to improves efficiency by spearheading pilots and planned functional change initiatives.

Leading Self (A):

• Calms self and others during stressful times.
• Comfortably handles risk and uncertainty and is decisive in ambiguous situations. Uses setbacks in a constructive way and demonstrates a mindset of continuous learning and improvement.
• Anticipates and responds in a proactive manner to future needs that may not be obvious to others.
• Ability to adapt to ever changing workload priorities and events and effectively reprioritizing or deferring tasks in line with operational and strategic goals.

**Strategic Thinking (**A):

• Identifies and considers emerging development opportunities and risks when articulating new options and recommendations.
• Maintains a broad, strategic perspective while identifying and focusing on crucial details. Analyzes project inputs from various elements (e.g., budgetary, technical, compliance, policy) and correctly prioritizes issues and solutions in support of goal accomplishment.
• Conceives likely scenarios and recommends effective courses of action to others. Integrates input from sophisticated models and tools to predict outcomes and identify issues that may not be obvious to others

Organizational Awareness (A):

• Recognizes external factors and changing organizational goals that will affect current projects and successfully adjusts the team’s work efforts in accordance with these changes.

• Provides guidance to others on team-specific processes and terminology.

• Collaborates with other teams to establish consistent standards and processes in alignment with the organizational strategy.

• Analyses existing and evolving standards to improve the consistency of efforts across teams and the organization.

• Anticipates external trends that will impact teams within the organization or the organization as a whole, and supports the planning process to address these changes.

Doctors of BC Team Member: Approaches work with a collaborative spirit recognizing we are better together. Embraces change, provides excellence in service and is accountable for their results and helping others achieve theirs. Does the right thing, not the easy thing. Speaks openly and honestly to tackle tough challenges and enrich relationships. Balances hard work with fun and is genuinely friendly and committed to other’s wellbeing.

WHAT YOU BRING

• A university degree and/or a recognized professional designation, in Business or another related field, and up to six years of progressive HR Business Partner or Generalist experience; or having an equivalent level of related work experience in-lieu of post-secondary education.

• CPHR designation an asset

• Previous management experience an asset

• Well-developed consulting and relationship management skills to discover, understand, and anticipate client group’s business needs and manage clients’ expectations is a must.

• Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, guidance and act as a subject matter expert on all human resources theory, practices and legal requirements

• Knowledge of leadership practices including: change management, negotiation, problem solving, conflict resolution, consensus-building, and influencing skills

• Commitment to being on top of HR trends and best practices

• Ability to effectively receive and communicate feedback, and encourage an open, honest and positive team environment

• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to work with diverse groups with differing interests and motivations, with activities and recommendations having a wide-ranging impact on client group

• Successful in working highly autonomously, and accesses guidance only when critically required from directors and executives.

• Effective communication and presentation skills, as well as strong written skills including proven ability to develop clear, concise and comprehensive reports and other documents.

• Demonstrated proficiency with PC based software, particularly Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Doctors of BC thanks all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.

Doctors of BC recognize the pervasive and ongoing harms of colonialism faced by Indigenous peoples and that these harms include the widespread systemic racism against Indigenous peoples in BC's health system. Physicians have a significant role to play in addressing the health disparities that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients, and Doctors of BC is committed to continuing to advance reconciliation and address and eliminate racism in health care.

Doctors of BC celebrates diversity, challenges inequality and is committed to sustaining an inclusive and diverse community. We seek qualified applicants who share our commitments to equity, diversity and inclusion, and truth and reconciliation. We especially welcome applications from persistently and historically oppressed groups, including Indigenous (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) peoples, members of racialized communities, persons with disabilities, women, gender-diverse, and persons who identify as 2SLGBTQ+.

We acknowledge that the land Doctors of BC operates and supports physicians from is the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations whose historical relationship with the land continues today. For Doctors of BC, acknowledging the land is an expression of cultural humility that involves recognizing our commitment to support the provision of culturally safe care to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in BC.