Who Are We?
The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) is the largest school board in western Canada with over 144,000 students and 16,000 employees. Our mission: Each student, in keeping with their individual abilities and gifts, will complete high school with a foundation of learning necessary to thrive in life, work and continued learning. We pride ourselves in the values we hold. Students come first. Learning is our central purpose. Public education serves the common good. The CBE encourages an inclusive and equitable workplace, which supports our diverse student and employee community. We encourage all applicants to join our dynamic, diverse, and collaborative culture and welcome applications from all qualified individuals.
When you apply to the CBE, you can feel good about serving our future leaders and contributing to student success.
Competition Info
Competition Close Date: Friday, June 6, 2025 @ 11:59 PM
Calendar: 12 month
Salary: $130,077 to $184,984 annually
FTE: 1.0, 35 hours per week
What does this role look like?
Purpose
Reporting to the Superintendent, Human Resources, the successful candidate will work collaboratively with the Director, Operations and Integrated Services and Director, Employee Relations to lead a team of HR professionals in creating, delivering and maintaining programs, practices and processes through an integrated approach focused on finding the right person, for the right role at the right time.
This position is accountable for the contribution to the advancement of CBE as a cohesive educational community that places student learning at its centre. This purpose will be met by leading educational thought with an inclusive and multi-faceted perspective on organizational success.
The CBE understands the future of work is flexible. In this role, you are eligible to participate in a flexible work program that allows you to work remotely for up to three days a week. A minimum of two days must be in the office. At certain times, you maybe be required to work in the office more then 2 days per week based on operational requirements.
What will you do?
- Leading and coordinating a team of functional experts in HR practices, working collaboratively to create programs and services to address workforce planning and sourcing, recruitment/retention and succession planning.
Effectively manage retention programs and practices with contractual obligations and collective bargaining rights.
Designs and manages transfer and placement processes to ensure effective deployment of employees while meeting contractual obligations, entitlements and collective agreements.
Ensures all recruitment and retention practices are aligned with collective bargaining agreements, the School Act, Canada Revenue and Labour Standards.
- Directs and ensures the development of strategies to forecast and respond to changing workforce needs. Identifies human resource talent required to meet the organization’s goals and objectives as it pertains to human capital.
- Ensures all practices established are based on sound research and analysis.
- Benchmarking methods of successful organizations, creating partnerships and learning forums for CBE, ensuring the organization is deploying progressive and leading edge practices that are relevant to its priorities and culture.
- Creating systemized practices and HR processes to respond to, support and address the needs of the organization with regards to all areas of Talent Management, providing consistent and relevant services to leaders and to the employee experience, in support of ‘employer of choice’ practices.
- Analysis of metrics designed to identify successful practices as well as areas of opportunity, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions.
- Aligning Talent Management program development with technology capacity and operational effectiveness based on a solid business case from both a financial and systems perspective.
- Participating in operations project management initiatives as a content expert, providing performance metric data and analysis to ensure overall performance measures are relevant and aligned with the Three Year Plan.
- Implements deployment procedures to ensure that newly hired employees to the Calgary Board of Education are accurately assigned the appropriate total compensation program, and employment provisions and electronic profiles are created for their newly accepted position. Directs the provision and administration of orientation programs to successful candidates and employees.
- Establishes processes for granting of secondments, teacher exchanges and professional improvement fellowships for CBE employees. May approve secondment and teacher exchange opportunities. Participates in the approval of professional improvement fellowships for teachers and professional support staff.
- Performs other related duties as assigned to meet service unit and system goals and objectives.
What are we looking for?
Education and Experience
Graduate Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Education or related field.
Professional Human Resource designation desired.
Experience in unionized environment an asset.
Experience in education, public sector, or non-profit organizations an asset.
Demonstrated success as a leader, leading Human Resource specialists in complex organizations designing and creating leading edge HR programs, practices and services.
An HR strategist having held progressively senior roles, with a track record of successfully leading HR teams in large, complex and evolving organizations
Well-developed strategy and communications experience, competence in HRIS Systems environment (PeopleSoft preferred) ability to negotiate complex vendor contracts and supply arrangements.
An equivalent combination of related post-secondary education and experience may be considered.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies
Commitment, knowledge and leadership in public education and the issues facing today’s systems;
Successful leadership and decision-making to achieve positive outcomes amidst multiple objectives and interests;
Commitment to an innovative education environment and consistently implementing “best in class” HR practices.
Adaptive leadership style with energy to support the priorities of the service unit, the system and the corresponding legal and legislative mandates.
Ability to be self-directed as well as collaborative.
Ability to work flexibly with a focus on delivery of results.
Excellent leadership ability and capacity which engages technology, best practices within the Human Resources discipline and ability to engage multiple stakeholders;
Ability to thrive in a highly technical and complex environment;
Ability and skill to work effectively in educational partnerships within and beyond the CBE;
Strong management practices in stewardship of financial resources;
Crisis management skills;
Ability to speak and present in public;
Ability to create and maintain an environment that fosters creativity, diversity, innovation and encourages initiative and calculated risk taking;
Expertise in building and leading teams combined with the ability to achieve consensus when appropriate;
Ability to create positive relations, to establish rapport and influence various interest groups and stakeholders;
Strong desire to achieve results;
Commitment to public education;
Personal suitability.
Conditions of Employment
Police Information Clearance: Applicants new to the Calgary Board of Education WHO ARE OFFERED EMPLOYMENT must complete and pass a police information clearance before employment is confirmed.
What happens next?
We thank all candidates for their interest in this position however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Land Acknowledgement
The Calgary Board of Education acknowledges the traditional territories and oral practices of the Treaty 7 Nations, including the Siksikaitsitapi Nations, Tsuut'ina Nation, and the Îyârhe Nakoda Nations. We acknowledge the Métis Nation within Alberta, and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of southern Alberta. As a learning organization, we are committed to advancing the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action focused on Education for ReconciliACTION.
