Description
Who We Are
JFK Law LLP is a mid-sized, national law firm focused on delivering high quality legal services to Indigenous people, communities, and organizations. We are a national leader in Aboriginal law with offices in Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, & Kahnawake, and opening soon in Calgary and Montreal. We foster an environment of excellence in serving our clients, continuous learning, cultural competency, and mutual respect.
JFK Law is committed to advancing justice and self-determination for Indigenous people. Trusted by Indigenous individuals and communities for our results, determination, and experience, we foster an inclusive workplace where collaboration drives meaningful outcomes. We bring dedication and rigor to everything we do, and we hold ourselves to high standards of care and precision. We are guided by values of honouring Indigenous voices, being bold, creative, and strategic. We listen with humility, we strive to innovate, we challenge norms, and we create a modern, inclusive environment where all team members can thrive in an environment where we are equally accountable to our clients and our colleagues in making a lasting impact.
As a firm dedicated to serving Indigenous people, we strongly encourage Indigenous applicants to apply. We are deeply committed to building and sustaining a workplace that supports our Indigenous team members in their professional growth and honours their personal and cultural identities.
Position Overview
Title: HR Specialist
Reports to: Director, People & Culture
Location: Minimum 4 days in office. (Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal)
Compensation: $100,000 – $125,000 + Benefits & Bonus
Role Overview
The HR Specialist works closely with the Director of People & Culture during a pivotal departmental restructuring. The HR Specialist serves as the primary HR contact for a multi-office legal team, ensuring that our operations are seamless, compliant, and responsive.
Key Responsibilities
- Multi-Provincial Advisory: Act as the subject matter expert on employment standards and human rights legislation across BC, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec. Provide HR policy guidance and interpretation on Labour Laws and Employment Standards across Canada. Beyond mere compliance, ensure that all advice is rigorously researched and that the firm remains ahead of regulatory trends.
- Maintain compliance with internal policies: Own the internal Policy Manual. Draft and update policies with a focus on clarity and consistency, ensuring that standards of conduct and excellence are upheld firm wide. Ensure practices comply with firm policy and legal requirements; provide HR policy guidance and interpretation.
- Talent Acquisition: Support full-cycle recruitment primarily for legal and professional roles, with overall firm recruitment management part of the portfolio. Develop rigorous screening and interviewing frameworks that identify candidates who share the firm’s commitment to excellence and it’s mission-driven work with Indigenous clients. Develop and maintain job descriptions, screen resumes, conduct interviews, and complete reference checking. Design and facilitate onboarding activities.
- Trend Analysis: Assess and identify trends with analytical rigour to propose solutions that will assist the HR department and the Director of People & Culture in designing improvement strategies.
- Performance Accountability: Support the performance management process including facilitating review meetings and tracking performance.
- Operational Excellence and Compliance: Maintain confidential personnel files and partner with the Finance team to ensure payroll and benefits data is handled with meticulous accuracy and dedication to privacy.
Qualifications
- Experience: 5–8 years in HR, characterized by a track record of increasing responsibility and operational discipline within a legal or professional services environment.
- Education: Post-secondary education required; HR-related education and CPHR/CHRP/CHRL are assets.
- Jurisdictional Expertise: Confident knowledge of employment law in multiple Canadian provinces, with the ability to navigate multi-provincial complexities with precision.
- Communication: "Legal-grade" attention to detail in drafting contracts and sensitive correspondence. A clear and concise communicator.
- Principled Trust: Proven ability to build high-trust relationships through consistency and accountability with all levels of an organization with high emotional intelligence.
- Resilient and Initiative-Driven: Comfortable in a high-stakes, fast-paced environment. A self-starter who takes personal ownership of projects form conception to completion.
- Bilingual: French/English will be an asset