If you're excited about building systems that empower others to lead and want to help shape Canada's next generation of entrepreneurial, AI-ready talent for the future of work, we'd love to hear from you

Venture for Canada is a national registered charity equipping talent across Canada with the entrepreneurial skills, mindset, and opportunities to succeed in a 21st-century economy increasingly shaped by rapid change and emerging technology. We believe that to be entrepreneurial is to act upon opportunities to create value for others. The resourcefulness and creativity of people across Canada are essential to addressing our country’s greatest challenges. Venture for Canada serves as a catalyst by empowering individuals to create a more prosperous, inclusive, and innovative society.

Since 2013, Venture for Canada has grown in meaningful ways, and we're excited to expand our team with values-aligned individuals who can contribute to what we're building. To learn more about our hiring process and workplace philosophy, visit our Careers page.

Role Overview

The People Operations Manager is responsible for the consistent, timely, and effective delivery of the organization’s day-to-day People Operations activities. The role serves as the primary operational point of contact for employees and managers and ensures that established People practices, policies, programs, and employment processes are executed accurately and consistently.

Working within established frameworks and in partnership with the Senior Manager, People Operations, the role exercises independent judgment across routine People Operations matters while escalating complex, high-risk, or precedent-setting issues as appropriate.





The role is highly execution-focused and employee-facing, with responsibility spanning employee relations, recruitment and hiring, onboarding, leaves and accommodations, payroll inputs and benefits administration, performance-cycle administration, compliance, HR systems, and offboarding.

Working closely with the People Operations Team, managers, Finance, Operations, and other internal and external partners, the People Operations Manager translates people-focused strategies, frameworks, and programs into reliable day-to-day practice while bringing forward operational insights that inform ongoing improvements to the People Operations function.

Key Role Responsibilities

Employee Relations & Employee Lifecycle

- Serve as the primary point of contact for day-to-day employee and manager People Operations matters
- Manage day-to-day employee relations matters, including issue resolution, documentation, and follow-up; support investigations and elevate complex, high-risk, or precedent-setting matters as appropriate
- Support managers in applying policies, addressing performance and conduct concerns, and navigating established People Operations processes
- Manage leaves of absence, accommodations, return-to-work processes, resignations, terminations, and offboarding, and elevate where appropriate
- Escalate complex, high-risk, precedent-setting, or systemic matters as appropriate





Talent Acquisition, Hiring & Onboarding

- Manage end-to-end recruitment execution, including job descriptions, postings, sourcing, screening, interviews, references, candidate management, offers, and hiring administration
- Partner with hiring managers to deliver timely, equitable, and consistent recruitment processes
- Prepare employment offers and contracts and manage routine negotiations within approved compensation and contract parameters
- Coordinate onboarding from accepted offer through successful integration, including documentation, payroll and advantages enrolment, systems access, orientation, and manager follow-through
- Administer new-hire check-ins, probationary milestones, and success processes

People Programs, Performance & Employee Experience

- Administer the annual performance review cycle, interim performance check-ins, and related employee and manager processes
- Coordinate communications, deadlines, documentation, reminders, completion tracking, and process support
- Support execution of employee engagement, recognition, culture, belonging, and DEI initiatives
- Administer employee surveys and pulse checks and support related communications and follow-up
- Coordinate operational delivery of organization-wide People Operations initiatives, including the annual team offsite

Payroll, Benefits, HR Systems & Administration

- Manage employee payroll inputs and changes in coordination with Finance
- Administer benefits and RRSP enrolment, changes, employee inquiries, and vendor processes
- Own day-to-day HRIS administration, employee records, data changes, workflows, permissions, and routine re

📌 Manager, People Operations (Toronto)
🏢 Venture for Canada
📍 Toronto