Are you looking for more than a job? At World Vision Canada we offer challenging careers that change the lives of children all over the world and it will change yours too. Come and be part of a team of 400 Canadians with a vision for the world: Life in all its fullness for every child.

You will experience Christian faith in action helping to make real and lasting change in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children. Join the World Vision Canada team and be part of a powerful and effective force for good:

For Children. For Change. For Life.

Position: People Manager
Reports to: Director, Digital and Information Technology
Position Term: Full Time Permanent
Primary Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Workplace Type: Remote

The People Manager is a servant leader who is responsible for overseeing, coaching and mentoring members of their team internally and externally in order to help bring their staffs’ highest value to their responsibilities.

Responsibilities include bringing focus to their team members to ensure and have the capacity, capabilities, tools and necessary training to do their work. In addition, working with each team member set goals and plan for professional development. The people manager will find ways to recognize and celebrate success and failures of the team.

The People Manager works closely with Directors, Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and growth is a part of each team member’s career journey and experience.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Recruiting and onboarding staff (full-time, contractors and outsourcing), selecting, orienting, and mentoring employees.
• Creates and manages personal growth plans for each employee.
• Accomplishes department objectives by managing staff; planning and evaluating department activities.
• Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Ensures a safe, secure, and legal work environment.
• Coaches, counsels, and provides direct feedback with employees.
• Develops and models an Agile mindset.
• Develops, coordinates, and enforces systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards. Establishes strategic goals by gathering pertinent business, financial, service, and operations information.
• Defines objectives, identifies and evaluates trends and options, chooses a course of action, and evaluates outcomes.
• Accomplishes financial objectives by forecasting internal and external staffing requirements, budgeting and managing staff expenditures (including training, team building, personal expenses), and initiating corrective actions.
• Supports Director in overseeing project delivery
• Vendor onboarding, management and communication.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in people leadership (Director, Manager, Lead)
• 5+ Years experience working with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Creative thinker with the ability to provide solutions that meet employee needs.
• Highly collaborative and comfortable with both high-level planning and tactical execution.
• Ability to handle criticisms and/or justify decisions. Expects major objections. Has experience navigating through conflicting priorities, turning ambiguity into clarity in a fast-changing environment.
• Experience creating detailed business cases to equip senior leadership decision making
• Strong ability to manage financials and strategic execution (budgets, ROIs, resource allocation and multiple concurrent projects)
• Able to navigate the organization and influence through indirect leadership and relationship capital
• Embraces a non-hierarchical approach, modelling transparency, collaboration and trust across the team
• Other personal attributes: ambitious, assertive, energetic, enthusiastic, confident, optimistic, inquisitive, persuasive, and motivational.
• Non-profit experience would be an asset.

Why consider us?

• World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada’s and the GTA’s top employers. Other awards granted are for financial transparency, marketing, customer service and for the work we do in the field.
• We are Canada’s largest development, relief and advocacy non-profit.
• We embody an agile mindset here.
• We offer competitive pay and benefits. Our comprehensive health benefits start at day 1 which includes a Health Spending Account. We match pension contributions up to 6% and give up a top-up for pregnancy & parental leaves up to 25%.
• We offer extra time off for restoration. We close for an additional day on long weekends, 6 times a year. You can get up to six weeks’ vacation, plus paid sick days, personal days & wellness days.
• We offer a family-friendly, caring, and flexible work environment.

We bring life-saving support in times of disaster. We help poor communities to take charge of their futures. We provide small loans and training that boost family livelihoods. We work with policy makers to change the way the world is run. Our Christian faith teaches us that every child, regardless of gender, faith or race, is a precious gift to the entire world - and that their wellbeing concerns us all. We shall never rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed.

GTA's Top 100

Our Core Values: We are committed to the Poor. We are Christian. We are Stewards. We value People.
We are Partners. We are Responsive.

Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the core values and mission of the World Vision partnership.

World Vision Canada takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support and training in their work with child and adult beneficiaries.

World Vision Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.


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