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Position title: Senior Human Resources Business Partner (one-year term)

File: FCC232-12/13

Location: Regina, Saskatchewan

Closing date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Division: Human Resources

Language requirement: English

Consulting skills a must
Provide your expertise in organizational effectiveness, leadership coaching, employee relations and performance and change management. With your understanding of sound human resource management, you’ll support our business needs while championing FCC culture. This position rewards an HR professional who works well in partnership with clients, has great consulting skills, and values the link between an engaged workforce and solid business results. You have at least five years of related experience and a degree in administration or HR management (or equivalent).

These competencies describe the required behaviours and expectations for the position:

ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCIES		JOB COMPETENCIES
Agility Acknowledges both organizational and personal capacity to change, based on what is and is not possible or probable. Knows when to say no. Changes approach accordingly, even though this may entail considerable effort to meet the organization’s needs. Customer experience Undertakes a regular exchange of information with customers and/or co-workers for mutual benefit to build a network of trust. Manages these relationships on an ongoing basis to ensure alignment and efficiency of effort. Initiative Makes well-thought-out modifications to systems or processes to improve both their impact and performance. Learning and innovation Develops a cross-boundary approach to learning by gaining information from multiple sources and encourages this in others as a strategy for continual improvement. Adapts communication for different audiences. Solution focus Analyzes relationships among several parts of a problem or situation. Demonstrates resilience by developing personal tactics and techniques to deal with issues and changes encountered in resolving problems. Teamwork and partnership Makes sure the practical needs of the team are met. Uses different leadership styles in response to the needs and goals of the team.		Conceptual thinking Clarifies complex information or situations. Assembles ideas, issues and observations into a clear and useful explanation. Customer business sense Develops an independent understanding of the possibilities, potential and risks associated with a customer’s business. Builds and sustains long-term partnerships with customers based on a thorough understanding of their businesses. Intuitively anticipates and responds to customers’ unexpressed, unarticulated business needs. Effective communication Adapts communication strategy and interpersonal approach to a situation. Perseveres in the face of complex, hard-to-handle situations. Effectively conveys both readily apparent and underlying messages to others. Judgment and decision-making Makes and supports or alters decisions based on the long-term implications to the customer and the organization. Is capable of developing, modifying or using different decision-making processes to positively impact multiple stakeholders. Relationship building Develops and nurtures contacts with individuals or groups in different parts of the organization or beyond the organization. Establishes broad-based relationships, networks or groups to facilitate opportunities to discuss and share information. Intellectual curiosity Makes a systematic effort to conduct research to obtain required information, different perspectives and other relevant sources of material while keeping an enterprise-wide perspective of other initiatives. Typically accomplishes this through formal and informal investigations.

ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCIES

JOB COMPETENCIES

Agility
Acknowledges both organizational and personal capacity to change, based on what is and is not possible or probable. Knows when to say no. Changes approach accordingly, even though this may entail considerable effort to meet the organization’s needs.

Customer experience
Undertakes a regular exchange of information with customers and/or co-workers for mutual benefit to build a network of trust. Manages these relationships on an ongoing basis to ensure alignment and efficiency of effort.

Initiative
Makes well-thought-out modifications to systems or processes to improve both their impact and performance.

Learning and innovation
Develops a cross-boundary approach to learning by gaining information from multiple sources and encourages this in others as a strategy for continual improvement. Adapts communication for different audiences.

Solution focus
Analyzes relationships among several parts of a problem or situation. Demonstrates resilience by developing personal tactics and techniques to deal with issues and changes encountered in resolving problems.

Teamwork and partnership
Makes sure the practical needs of the team are met. Uses different leadership styles in response to the needs and goals of the team.

Conceptual thinking
Clarifies complex information or situations. Assembles ideas, issues and observations into a clear and useful explanation.

Customer business sense
Develops an independent understanding of the possibilities, potential and risks associated with a customer’s business. Builds and sustains long-term partnerships with customers based on a thorough understanding of their businesses. Intuitively anticipates and responds to customers’ unexpressed, unarticulated business needs.

Effective communication
Adapts communication strategy and interpersonal approach to a situation. Perseveres in the face of complex, hard-to-handle situations. Effectively conveys both readily apparent and underlying messages to others.

Judgment and decision-making
Makes and supports or alters decisions based on the long-term implications to the customer and the organization. Is capable of developing, modifying or using different decision-making processes to positively impact multiple stakeholders.

Relationship building
Develops and nurtures contacts with individuals or groups in different parts of the organization or beyond the organization. Establishes broad-based relationships, networks or groups to facilitate opportunities to discuss and share information.

Intellectual curiosity
Makes a systematic effort to conduct research to obtain required information, different perspectives and other relevant sources of material while keeping an enterprise-wide perspective of other initiatives. Typically accomplishes this through formal and informal investigations.