Director, Human Resources

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, People and Organizational Development, the Director, Human Resources provides enterprise level leadership for workforce governance, administration, and risk management. This role serves as the senior authority for labour relations, workforce compliance, compensation and benefits, attendance and disability management, and deploy ability governance across the employment lifecycle. The Director ensures human resource systems are disciplined, structured, legally defensible, and consistently applied to support police officers, peace officers, and civilian public safety professionals across the province. As a key structural leader in a newly established police service, the Director, Human Resources plays a critical role in building an operationally ready, compliant, and sustainable workforce that supports public trust and effective service to Albertans.

Key Responsibilities: 

•    Establish and oversee human resource governance frameworks aligned with legislation, collective agreements, policy, and provincial oversight requirements, while advising executive leadership on workforce risk and compliance. 
•    Serve as the senior authority on labour and employee relations, including collective bargaining support, grievance and dispute resolution, discipline, and performance management. 
•    Lead workforce administration and compensation programs, including classification systems, job evaluation, pensions, and benefits, ensuring equity, compliance, and financial stewardship. 
•    Provide governance oversight for attendance, disability, accommodation, and fit for duty processes, ensuring members are supported, deployable, and operationally ready. 
•    Collaborate with senior People leaders to ensure alignment across the workforce lifecycle, including onboarding, development, engagement, transition, and retirement planning. 
•    Develop and oversee workforce data, analytics, and executive reporting to monitor trends, inform decision making, and support accountability to leadership, oversight bodies, and government partners.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

•    Systems Thinking: Understands the workforce as an integrated system and anticipates how HR decisions impact operational readiness, risk, and public trust across the organization.
•    Creative Problem Solving: Applies structured, practical judgment to resolve complex labor, governance, and workforce issues in a legally and operationally defensible manner.
•    Agility: Adapts quickly in a stand-up environment, adjusting HR policies and approaches to meet evolving operational, legislative, and organizational demands.
•    Drive for Results: Ensures disciplined execution of HR governance and workforce systems, with clear accountability, consistency, and measurable outcomes.
•    Develop Networks: Builds and leverages trusted relationships with leadership, unions, and government partners to influence outcomes and resolve complex issues.
•    Build Collaborative Environments: Establishes clear roles, accountability, and coordination across the People Function to enable effective and aligned workforce delivery.
•    Develop Self and Others: Builds capability within the HR function and sets clear standards for professional, consistent, and accountable workforce management.

Qualifications

A university degree in Human Resources, Public Administration, Business Administration or any other related field, supplemented by seven (7) years of progressive Human Resources leadership experience.

Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

•    one year of education for one year of experience.
•    one year of experience for one year of education.

Requirements:

•    Demonstrated experience as a senior Human Resources leader in a complex, unionized and/or public sector environment, with accountability for workforce governance and risk management.
•    Significant experience in labour relations, including collective bargaining, grievance management, and interpretation of collective agreements in a unionized environment.
•    Strong working knowledge of employment legislation, disability and attendance management, compensation frameworks, and workforce governance, with the ability to apply them in operationally complex settings.
•    Experience providing strategic advice to executive leadership on workforce risk, compliance, and defensible decision-making. 
•    Demonstrated experience leveraging technology, systems, or digital platforms to modernize HR service delivery and improve efficiency, consistency, and accessibility.

Assets:

•    Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) designation or equivalent professional accreditation.
•    Experience operating in highly regulated, unionized, or high accountability. environments, such as public safety, healthcare, utilities, or government.
•    Experience working within a multi-stakeholder environment involving government, oversight bodies, or regulatory agencies.
•    Experience implementing or advancing HR best practices within complex organizations, including standardization of processes, governance, and service delivery models.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

•    There is one (1) permanent, full-time, fully in-person position available.
•    Monday to Friday- 8:15am to 4:30pm.
•    Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.
•    Valid Class 5 Alberta Driver’s License or equivalent is required.
•    Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees:

•    Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
•    Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
•    Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca
•    Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
•    Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
•    Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.