Interim Executive Director, Human Resources

IMMEDIATE INTERIM OPPORTUNITY

Interim Executive Director, Human Resources

Reports To EVP Corporate Services

Duration : 3 - 6 Months

Location : GTA, ON

Hybrid working

1-2 days onsite a week

Our client is a well-known and high-profile publicly funded not-for-profit. They need a strong and accomplished HR leader to support the organization’s employees and the management team through a period of significant transition and change.

This interim will coach, lead, and inspire a diverse portfolio of over 20 HR professionals alongside providing critical insight and support to the EVP Corporate Services and the broader executive leadership team.

This is a classic strategic interim’ engagement as you will have both operational and transformational objectives. This role partners with the EVP Corporate Services as the organization modernizes their HR strategy with the goal of elevating the impact and sophistication of HR programs.

To be successful in this role you will have a deep background in HR, have extensive experience working in large complex environments, love coaching and inspiring talent and love a challenge.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Take full operational responsibility for a diverse Human Resources function focusing on talent management, total compensation, employee relations, recruitment, ED&I, change management, organizational and leadership development, and learning.
• Coach, lead and inspire a large and talented team of HR professionals.
• Work with the CEO and the EVP Corporate Services to assess the HR function providing recommendations on the future organizational structure.
• Refresh the current HR strategy looking to elevate the value and impact of HR across the organization.
• Be the trusted advisor to senior leaders on all human capital issues that support organizational development and / or protect the organization.
• Execute a series of critical projects to benefit the organization.
• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Establish goals to support the organization's corporate and people strategic plans.
• Oversees, develops, and executes talent acquisition and retention strategies and plans, including directing the implementation of the organization-wide employment programs for recruitment and retention strategies, candidate identification and selection methods, and diversity and inclusion strategies and measurements.
• Develops and monitors strategies aimed at maintaining a healthy workplace culture including strategies, programs, and initiatives related to employee communications, engagement, and relations across all organization’s programs and offices.

COMPETENCIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or other similar area of study.
• 10+ years or more of relevant work experience with an emphasis on employee engagement, employee experience, organizational effectiveness, ED&I or other related HR disciplines.
• Expert knowledge of executive compensation and employee relations.
• CHRL or CHRP designation preferred.
• Ideally worked in the broader public sector.
• Demonstrated achievement in strategy development and execution.
• Strong, well-developed business acumen with a proven ability to influence and impact others.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven experience in leading large change initiatives.

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LHH Knightsbridge Interim Management is a service to help our clients address a wide range of scenarios including leadership support due to sudden departures, driving key change initiatives or leading transformation projects.

Our interim executives step in with minimal downtime to meet specific objectives and deliver results. All have held senior positions in the past and have now chosen to offer their unique depth and breadth of experience to organizations on a limited engagement basis.

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Lee Hecht Harrison Knightsbridge Corp. is committed to providing equitable treatment and accommodation to ensure a barrier-free recruitment process.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and our AODA policy, a request for accommodation will be accepted as part of the hiring process.

If you require accommodation to apply or if selected to participate in an assessment process, please provide your accommodation needs in advance to the Recruitment Lead for this opportunity.

We are an equal opportunity employer; we welcome applications from people with disabilities, and we can provide accommodations during hiring processes.

We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Diversity means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated and respected, as well as responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths.

We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

April 2024