HR Manager

ubc; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of British Columbia is seeking an HR Manager to lead day-to-day human resources activities across the Faculty of Medicine units. You will provide strategic advice on appointments, policies, and processes and ensure alignment with UBC standards.

You will collaborate with the Dean's Office, departments, and payroll and finances to implement standardized HR methodologies and improve service delivery for faculty, staff, and students.

Responsibilities

• Oversees daily HR activities across FoM units.
• Ensures adherence to UBC policies and procedures.
• Provides guidance on faculty, staff and student appointments.

Skills

HR management

Policy development

Employee relations

Job description

Staff - Non Union

Job Category: M&P - AAPS

Job Profile: AAPS Salaried - Human Resources, Level B

Job Title: HR Manager

Department: Client Services | Faculty Affairs | Faculty of Medicine

Compensation Range: $7,158.42 - $10,292.25 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date: August 26, 2026

Job End Date: October 9, 2027

This position is expected to be filled by promotion/reassignment and is included here to inform you of its vacancy at the University.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The HR Manager is part of the HR Client Services Team in the Dean's Office Faculty Affairs and is responsible for day-to-day operations of all human resource activities across a portfolio of Faculty of Medicine (FoM) Units as well as being assigned to various FoM departments, school and centres based on needs and strategic projects. This position provides advice, guidance and recommendations on a wide range of human resources management activities on faculty, staff and students appointments for the Faculty of Medicine (FoM). The individual will develop and implement standardized human resources methodologies, procedures and systems faculty wide level and within the individual units that will ensure optimal usage of department and external resources. This role collaborates closely and takes a proactive approach with all units within the FoM Dean's office, units within the Faculty, Provost's Office, Faculty Relations, UBC Payroll, Financial Services, other UBC units and distributed sites as required. This role will need to exercise creative thinking when providing advice and recommending solutions to variety of matters.

Organizational Status

The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. Since 1915, UBC's entrepreneurial spirit has embraced innovation and challenged the status quo. UBC encourages its students, staff and faculty to challenge convention, lead discovery and explore new ways of learning. At UBC, bold thinking is given a place to develop into ideas that can change the world.

Our Vision: To Transform Health for Everyone

Ranked among the world's top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine. Across British Columbia, more than 14,000 faculty and staff are training the next generation of doctors and health care professionals, making remarkable discoveries, and helping to create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world.

The Faculty of Medicine -comprised of approximately 2,700 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well approximately 650 full-time academic and over 12,000 clinical faculty members-is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, 3 schools, and 26 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty of Medicine delivers innovative programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province.

The UBC Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The City of Vancouver is located on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations territory.

Work Performed

Works collaboratively with the Senior Admin, by participating in setting and implementing Departmental strategic plans, goals, and objectives for Human Resources within the portfolio.

Responsible for the operational management of all human resource activities and processes for the FoM Units that are being supported, including the review, development, monitoring, implementation and continued improvements/updates to internal processes and systems to support these activities in an effective and efficient manner. Ensuring consistency with UBC policies and procedures.

Provides advice on University and FOM