Manager, Payroll, Benefits & HRIS
Organizational Profile
Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland enable life-changing mentoring relationships to ignite the power and potential in youth. Big Sisters provides direct service to young people, who through no fault of their own, may be facing adversity. By matching them with caring adult volunteers in quality one-to-one and group mentoring relationships, Big Sisters ensure they have the relationships they need to become resilient and realize their full potential.
About the Role
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Manager, People + Operations is a hands-on, cross-functional role responsible for leading the day-to-day functioning of the organization across people, operations, and governance. This role ensures staff have the tools, environment, and processes needed to do their best work, while working across teams to streamline workflows and strengthen organizational effectiveness. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Manager, People + Operations (Senior Manager) is a hands‑on, cross‑functional leader responsible for ensuring the smooth, effective day‑to‑day functioning of the organization across people, operations, and governance. This role plays a central part in building a strong internal foundation, ensuring staff have the tools, systems, support, and environment they need to do their best work.
The Senior Manager collaborates closely with teams across the organization to streamline workflows, strengthen operational processes, and enhance organizational effectiveness. The Senior Manager oversees core people‑operations functions such as HR administration, recruitment support, onboarding, performance processes, and workplace culture initiatives. In addition, they provide operational leadership by managing key administrative systems, engaging in cross‑departmental projects, and ensuring organizational policies, procedures, and governance practices are current, compliant, and aligned with strategic priorities.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced human resource professional with a proven record of expertise across all facets of human resources. The preferred candidate will have a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in operations, human resources, or a similar cross-functional role leading teams and managing department-level functions; a CPHR designation or equivalent is an asset. This position requires excellent communication, interpersonal, and client service skills with the ability to work across teams to set goals, resolve issues, and support decision making. An equivalent combination of education, training and experience will be considered.
The salary for this position is $82,000 – $90,000 annually.
Contact
Harbour West Consulting + Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland believe equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility are essential for the organizations we serve to achieve the business goals they strive for. We believe that everyone – no matter their gender, racialized identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, ability, religion, political beliefs, family status, socioeconomic status, citizenship status, or Indigenous status – should have equitable access to our services, jobs, and opportunities. We strive to ensure processes unfold in a fair, transparent, timely, and open manner to include individuals previously underrepresented or discouraged from participating.
Should you be interested in learning more about this unique opportunity with Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland, please forward your resume, a letter of introduction and the names and contact information for three references, in confidence, to info@hwest.ca.