Come work as a Manager, Talent Acquisition with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Manager, Talent Acquisition to join the Executive & Medical Staff Talent Acquisition Team.

Reporting to the Director, the Manager of Talent Acquisition is responsible for executing a recruitment strategy that standardizes and streamlines processes, procedures, and guidelines. This includes setting both short- and long-term goals to maximize opportunities for attracting and retaining top talent at Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and ensuring that industry best practices and innovation are integrated into all aspects of recruitment services. The Manager leads, supervises, and provides daily work direction to the team, as well as maintains their own portfolio of requisitions, offering expert advisory support throughout the recruitment process for executive level positions. This includes requisitioning, posting, pre-screening, shortlisting, interviewing, referencing, and extending employment offers. The Manager also leads the development and roll-out of new recruitment guidelines, tools, services, and systems to streamline application processes, while championing continuous process improvement initiatives. Additionally, the Manager maintains statistical data and reports on recruitment activities, contributes to budget planning for the department, and monitors expenditures, reporting any variances. They represent the department in health authority-wide projects, initiatives, and working groups, offering recommendations and decisions on behalf of the Director.

If you are a seasoned Talent Acquisition Leader with a background in executive search and a proven ability to identify and engage talent at the highest levels, we want to connect with you.

Apply today to join our team!

As a Manager, Talent Acquisition with Vancouver Coastal Health you will:

• Develop and executes recruitment goals and objectives that consider emerging trends and which align with the vision and strategic direction of Employee Engagement and VCH.
• Plan, deliver, monitor and evaluate recruitment process improvement initiatives that streamline and standardize processes, procedures and reporting and which increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness; Oversees continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Identify, advocate, and implements new technology or enhancements to existing technology to optimize opportunities and enhance data and reporting. Maintains statistical data and reports on recruitment activities such as job vacancies and postings.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of new recruitment guidelines and/or initiatives, as well as the development of tools, services and systems to promote efficient application processes across VCH.
• Responsible for budget planning, forecasting, analysis and tracking for recruitment, including monitoring expenditures, and investigating and reporting on variances.
• Oversee and provides advisory services to all client departments, and leads and oversees and department that is involved in all stages of the recruitment process, including requisitioning, posting, prescreening, short-listing, interviews, reference checks, and employment offers.
• Provide guidance and advice to leaders/managers/directors on recruitment issues such as job posting processes and the recruitment of applicants to fill job vacancies, including information on organizational policy and collective agreement requirements.  Reviews and updates hiring practices to ensure compliance with legal and statutory obligations.
• Participate on designated hospital committees/teams and approved research projects as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in a related field plus a minimum of seven (7) years’ of progressively responsible recruitment and leadership experience in a large, multi-discipline unionized environment, preferably health care, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience. 
• Certified Human Resources Professional designation or equivalent is an asset.

Knowledge & Abilities

• Demonstrated leadership and ability to foster a motivating, respectful and encouraging environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge and interpretation of organizational policies and procedures, and collective agreement requirements related to job vacancies and postings.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead in the identification of service priorities for achieving operational goals/objectives, including the development of tools, services and systems to promote efficient application processes.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize both verbal and written communication skills when obtaining information, providing routine advice/information and otherwise communicating electronically, verbally and in written format.
• Effectively leads at team to support organizational goals and objectives through effective recruitment procedures and practices.
• Effectively develops working relationships with leaders/managers/directors to support recruitment processes.
• Utilizes analytical skills to maintain statistical data and report on department activities.
• Applies effective time management skills to prioritize assignments, schedule activities, optimizes effectiveness and maintains service levels.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• As per Ministry of Health policy, all health care workers working in publicly-funded health care facilities are required to report their past receipt of certain vaccines or history of certain infections. Collecting these records will allow for offering of any missing vaccines, and for appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any future exposure to a communicable disease or during outbreaks. For all new hires and appointments to Vancouver Coastal Health, you will be asked to provide this information as part of the onboarding process.

If you have any questions, please reach out to executivecareers@vch.ca.

As per Ministry of Health policy, all health care workers working in publicly-funded health care facilities are required to report their past receipt of certain vaccines or history of certain infections. Collecting these records will allow for offering of any missing vaccines, and for appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any future exposure to a communicable disease or during outbreaks. For all new hires and appointments to Vancouver Coastal Health, you will be asked to provide this information as part of the onboarding process.

WHY JOIN VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH?

VCH is a world class innovator in medical care, research, and teaching, delivering service to more than one million BC residents. At VCH, we embrace thinking boldly, taking smart risks, and "going first" when we believe it will lead to the best possible outcomes for patients and their families. We invite you to join us in creating healthy lives in healthy communities by showcasing our passion for care, connection to the communities we serve and our culture of teamwork that makes VCH a great place to work.

• Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health, and dental and municipal pension plan.
• Grow your career with employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities.
• Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families.
• Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers.
• Access to exclusive discount offers and deals for VCH staff.

At Vancouver Coastal Health, our vision of healthy lives in healthy communities inspires us and our values and pillars guide us. We support equitable practices, diverse teams, and inclusive environments, which are integral to creating welcoming spaces where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and feel supported. We encourage applications from equity-deserving communities, including Indigenous Peoples and members of racialized groups, people with disabilities and people of all gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation.

Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to be recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2024.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for this posting.

***Employees of VCH must apply online via the Internal Career Portal on CareerHub, you are currently viewing the External Career Portal. Refer to the https://my.vch.ca/working-here/job-postings site for instructions on how to view internal job postings and how to apply as an employee. Current VCH employees who apply to this posting using this external site will be considered as an external candidate. Seniority will not apply.***

Thank you for your interest in Vancouver Coastal Health.