Description

JOB SUMMARY:

Reporting to the Director of People Experience, the Advisor, Recognition & People Experience acts as an expert resource for recognition and strategic retention initiatives that contribute to making VCH a outstanding place to work. The Advisor creates and supports initiatives and programs designed to enhance VCH’s people experience and improve retention, including meaningful recognition for staff, physicians, and volunteers. The Advisor is an internal culture catalyst, initiative leader and facilitator committed to enhancing people experience through creating and enhancing recognition moments, and people-focused retention strategies.

The position also develops, recommends, and implements people experience programs and strategies aligned with our shared VCH purpose and values to build relationships, increase engagement, and enhance team performance in service of building a great workplace culture that promotes leading practices for recognition (peer-to-peer, leader to staff, and staff to leader recognition).

Provides tools and resources to support new and existing leaders, champions, and staff practices for appreciation, recognition, retention and staff engagement. Leads workshops and attends community of practice, designs supports and self-serve tools, and engages operational leaders and staff in planning and providing feedback on people experience programs, as appropriate. Collaborate and communicates with local and organization-wide clinical, non-clinical and leadership teams to support staff engagement in cultural change and retention in support of the overall People Experience strategy at VCH.

This work is framed within VCH’s commitments to our pillars of Indigenous Cultural Safety, Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Planetary Health.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Qualifications





Master’s Degree in a field related to Human Resource or Business Administration plus five (5) to seven (7) years of progressively more senior experience in a unionized setting and working knowledge of standard human resource policies and practices, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

ROLE SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

- Practices the recognition, inclusion and support of all types and aspects of diversity at all stages of engagement, with an understanding of the issues faced by people from equity-seeking groups, including those who experience intersectional barriers.
- Develops and maintains strong relationships with key internal and external partners to promote and enhance services provided with sensitivity to diversity and indigenous lens
- Demonstrated expertise and experience in human resource/people and employee experience in complex organizational settings.
- Demonstrated ability to provide senior advisory services and consultation to managers utilizing strong communication skills and the ability to educate, mentor, coach, facilitate, persuade and influence.
- Can quickly build relationships with internal stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability in effective project management and utilization of communication
- Strong project management, prioritization and planning skills in the design and development of educational strategies and initiatives.




- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
- Applies superior judgment and political expertise to communicate sensitive information to, and collaborate with, a variety of internal and external partners.
- Efficient, organized, hard-working; ‘get stuff done’
- People person – appreciates and visibly supports all levels
- Uses facilitation skills for effective dialogue, solution-finding, and conflict resolution
- Fosters creativity and innovation in strategic planning involving cultural shifts and large scale change.

Details

At Vancouver Coastal Health, our vision of healthy lives in healthy communities inspires us and our values and pillars guide us. We support equitable practices, diverse teams and inclusive environments, which are vital to creating welcoming spaces where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and feel supported. We encourage applications from equity-deserving communities, including Indigenous Peoples and members of racialized groups, people with disabilities and people of all gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation.

Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to be recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, BC’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers and Canada's Top Employers for Young People in 2026.

Unless otherwise noted on the posting, internal job postings close at 8:00 AM Pacific Time on the listed Closing Date. Please submit your digital application via the Internal Career Portal prior to the Closing Date & Time.

Nursing & LPN successful applicants will be notified by email.

We regret that only short listed candidates will be acknowledged.

This is an internal job posting for Vancouver Coastal Health employees only.

📌 Advisor, Recognition & People Experience (Vancouver)
🏢 Vancouver Coastal Health
📍 Vancouver