Vice President, People & Culture

Job Description

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Boardwalk provides Canadians with a quality, comfortable, home living experience. We offer rental apartments and townhouses that come in a wide breadth of shapes, sizes and sets of amenities. We operate 33,000 units across Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Quebec.

Boardwalk recognizes our Associates as our most valuable asset. We are proud to provide competitive wages, profit-sharing, and amazing benefits like flexible group medical and dental, fitness reimbursement, training and development, group RRSP matching, rental discounts, and more.

Boardwalk is seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking Leader to serve as Vice President, People & Culture. This is a pivotal opportunity to shape and strengthen Boardwalk’s commitment to its people and create an inclusive, high performing workplace that supports service, hospitality and operational excellence.

This role will be responsible for leading the People & Culture strategy, ensuring that policies, programs, and initiatives support the organization’s goals. This role will foster a people-first culture, emphasizing Associate engagement, retention, professional development, and workplace well-being.

Reporting to the CEO, the Vice President, People & Culture will provide strategic leadership to the People & Culture department, which includes Human Resources, Health & Safety, Payroll & Benefits. They will provide strategic advice, guidance, and support in partnership with Leaders in the areas of human resources, labour relations, and performance management.

Key Areas Of Responsibility Include

1. Cultural Leadership: Champion the organization’s culture to reflect its values and mission by fostering an inclusive work environment.
2. Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement People strategies that align with Boardwalk’s values and goals, emphasizing collaboration, innovation, and positioning Boardwalk as a top employer.
3. Employee Engagement and Inclusion: Foster a supportive, engaging, and inclusive workplace environment that attracts, retains, and develops top talent. Measure Associate satisfaction through feedback & survey.
4. Leadership Development: Develop strong leadership team through evolving measures of performance.
5. Training and Development: Oversee learning and development programs that enhance Associate skills, career growth, and development.
6. Data and Analytics: Review metrics and analytics to measure the effectiveness of programs and make data-driven recommendations to improve processes.

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

1. A degree in Human Resources or a related field; CPHR designation is preferred.
2. Designations in Health & Safety, Payroll & Benefits an asset.
3. Significant leadership experience, 10+ years, in HR, with the ability to face challenges and to exercise integrity, flexibility, and wisdom while maintaining transparency.
4. Expertise in workforce planning, talent acquisition, learning & development, leadership development, health & safety and Associate engagement.
5. Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and conflict-resolution skills.
6. Experience leading change initiatives and fostering a culture of service.
7. Strong knowledge of HRIS (such as Dayforce) and data management.
8. A strong track record of building and maintaining a positive, successful, high performing culture.
9. A trustworthy Leader capable of working effectively within a high performing environment and building trusting relationships.
10. Emotional intelligence and empathy, ensuring a supportive and inclusive work environment.
11. A passion for people.

Interested applicants are invited to submit a cover letter and resume.

We would like to thank you in advance for your application, however, only those candidates who are being considered will be contacted. Offers of employment will be contingent on satisfactory Security Background Checks, Reference Checks, and Post-offer/Pre-employment Physical Testing where applicable.

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Ready to shape the future of our communities? Come work with us and learn where doing what you love means never working a day in your life!

Deeply rooted in family spirit and humility, Boardwalk’s five core values of integrity, associates, teamwork, customer service and social responsibility are more than just words - they are a way of life. Coupled with our Golden Foundation of ‘treat others as you would like to be treated,’ ‘be good,’ ‘love community’ and ‘have fun,’ we believe in happiness and creating the most memorable experiences for both our Associates and Resident Members, continually looking for new and innovative ways to enhance and strengthen all our Boardwalk communities.

We hope these values speak to you as they speak so meaningfully to us!

As we continue to grow, we remain unwavering in our commitment to providing Resident Members with the best quality rental communities. This same commitment means Boardwalk is always seeking individuals who have a positive attitude, are energetic and passionate, self-driven, productive, have the capacity to deliver high-quality results and who believe in the power of teamwork.

Together, with you as part of our team, we will continue to create meaning every day for those who choose to call Boardwalk home.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment Statement

We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse team that will honour and celebrate your experiences, perspectives and unique identity regardless of age, ethnicity, race, colour, abilities, religion, socio-economic status, culture, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Together, our communities strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

We believe every Associate in our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of values, customs and experience to better understand and engage with the world around us, identify challenges, so as to discover, design and deliver solutions together.