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Human Resources Manager

OUR STORY:
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (OSC) is an innovative and imaginative organization with national scope that is ensuring we as Canadians, achieve sustainable economic growth in our ocean-based industries while preserving the health and protection of one of our greatest natural resources. The OSC’s mandate is to collaborate with investors and partners from across ocean industries to develop and commercialize innovative solutions to shared challenges. The OSC guides ideas from the conceptual to the actual; partnering with industries who have big goals and innovative concepts. Actualizing these ideas is our passion and the process is our mission. Our organizational values include creativity, inclusion, collaboration, and inclusion. To learn more, click www.oceansupercluster.ca.

THE ROLE:
The OSC has a team of over 25 employees across six provinces and growing. We are looking for an innovative thinker to drive our HR agenda and contribute to the growth, retention and development of the team supporting the ocean economy and the health of the planet. Reporting to, and working with, our CAO, the successful candidate will be our primary HR lead across a variety of areas and help drive our HR agenda and take ownership of key HR activities and initiatives. With a number of HR programs and initiatives in place, we are looking for someone to take lead and make recommendations to build on what is already in place. This is an exciting role that will help shape HR at the OSC and provide value across a variety of areas for the organization.

KEY FUNCTIONS:
• Formulate, lead and execute recruitment and retention strategies to attract and retain talent
• Drive our performance management and employee engagement programs
• Deliver and shape our learning and growth plan
• Oversee our onboarding and offboarding programs
• Participate in the OSC’s EDI committee and with implementation of our EDI plan
• Play an active role on the OSC’s social committee
• Assist with planning staff retreats and offsites
• Drive reporting and maximize the use of data/usage of HR systems
• Enhance existing HR policies, systems and processes, creating new policies and processes as required
• Drive OSC’s internal communications as it pertains to talent and HR

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE:
• 5-10 years of relevant hands-on experience in HR across a variety of functional areas including performance management
• Relevant university degree (e.g., Business/Commerce) with a concentration in Human Resource
• Experience leading and designing programs or enhancing elements of existing programs and policies
• Familiarity with (or experience) establishing and executing talent strategies
• Comfortable working both with senior teams and junior staff members
• Ability to connect and easily forge relationships with staff
• Comfortable working remotely and engaging virtually with key stakeholders
• Self-starter who can work independently to successfully deliver outcomes
• HR designation would be considered an asset

WHY JOIN OUR TEAM?
• We are excited to continue building our team with experienced professionals who are passionate about realizing Canada’s opportunity and growing the ocean economy in a digital, sustainable, and inclusive way.
• We pride ourselves on our core values – creativity, inclusion, collaboration, and ambition.
• We offer an attractive Total Compensation package which includes competitive salaries, group RRSP, comprehensive health benefits, and professional development opportunities.

HOW TO APPLY: https://www.jumpcareers.ca/bullhorn/#/jobs/1106

Project Analyst

Location:             Anywhere in Canada (remote work arrangement)

 

ABOUT US:

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (“OSC”) is an innovative and imaginative organization with national scope that is ensuring we as Canadians, achieve sustainable economic growth in our ocean-based industries while preserving the health and protection of one of our greatest natural resources.

The OSC collaborates with investors and partners from across ocean industries to develop and commercialize innovative solutions and create growth opportunities within Canada’s ocean economy, delivering cross-sectoral solutions, building a strong global ocean brand, and increasing Canada’s ocean workforce. Our organizational values diversity, creativity, ambition, collaboration, and inclusion. The OSC has a team of over 25 employees across seven provinces and growing.

The Ocean Supercluster creates new business opportunities for large-scale companies (anchor firms) as well as small to medium size entities (SMEs). It promotes and facilitates new partnerships between businesses, research institutions, and academia, helping them to undertake new business initiatives, develop and market innovative products, and become part of new and existing supply chains. OSC supports organizations to be globally competitive, expand into new markets and to significantly grow the ocean economy.

 

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Reporting to the Director, Project Delivery and Intellectual Property, the project analyst will work within the project delivery team.  The project analyst will support all aspects of project delivery focused on tracking and reporting on project portfolio status to key stakeholders including the project delivery team, senior leadership team and the Board on an on-going basis.

The OSC currently has a portfolio of over 80 projects with almost $400 million in project value and close to 300 project partners. With projects led across Canada this creates an exciting opportunity for a project analyst to get to know a broad array of ocean sectors and companies and apply their project management and analytics skills supporting strong delivery of project outcomes.

 

Key Accountabilities:

  • Support reporting to key stakeholders including project activity reporting throughout project lifecycle with specific focus at project initiation and completion
  • Engage with members to collect key data as required
  • Perform portfolio analyses and support key performance indicator collection and reporting
  • Support and strengthen organizational data management and information exchange initiativesincluding intellectual property and data registries, as required
  • Work with broader team on KPIs including efforts related to automating processes for data collection, data entry, reporting and continuous improvement initiatives across Salesforce applications.
  • Support collection of data on project milestones to promote on the OSC website and in social media campaigns
  • Support broader activities and initiatives within the project delivery team as required

 

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

  • Commitment to working as part of diverse teams to deliver outcomes
  • Experience in project delivery
  • Curiosity to identify reporting opportunities for unique portfolio outcomes
  • Passion for working in a dynamic, innovative environment and supporting successful project outcomes
  • Knowledge of salesforce
  • Focus on data accuracy
  • Ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a remote work environment
  • Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience project reporting
  • PMP would be an asset
  • Experience or excitement working in the ocean sector would be an asset

We are excited to continue building our team with experienced, diverse professionals who are passionate about realizing Canada’s opportunity and growing the ocean economy in a digital, sustainable, and inclusive way. 

 

Apply Now:  Submit your cover letter and CV in confidence to HR@oceansupercluster.ca

 

 

 

Chief Growth and Investment Officer (CGIO)

Location:             Anywhere in Canada (remote work arrangement)

Start Date:           preferably by April 1, 2023

 

ABOUT US:

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (“OSC”) is an innovative and imaginative organization with national scope that is ensuring we as Canadians, achieve sustainable economic growth in our ocean-based industries while preserving the health and protection of one of our greatest natural resources.

The OSC collaborates with investors and partners from across ocean industries to develop and commercialize innovative solutions and create growth opportunities within Canada’s ocean economy, delivering cross-sectoral solutions, building a strong global ocean brand, and increasing Canada’s ocean workforce. Our organizational values diversity, creativity, ambition, collaboration, and inclusion. The OSC has a team of over 25 employees across seven provinces and growing.

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster creates new business opportunities for large-scale companies (anchor firms) as well as small to medium size entities (SMEs). It promotes and facilitates new partnerships between businesses, research institutions, and academia, helping them to undertake new business initiatives, develop and market innovative products, and become part of new and existing supply chains. OSC supports organizations to be globally competitive, expand into new markets and to significantly grow the ocean economy.

 

ABOUT THE ROLE: 

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), the Chief Growth and Investment Officer (“CGIO”) will work closely with the CEO on the organization’s strategic growth plan along with an investment strategy and portfolio.  The CGIO will lead the OSC’s focus on driving company growth and will partner with the Chief Engagement and Communications Officer (“CECO”) and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) on building the innovation ecosystem through talent, community and brand.

The CGIO will actively look for opportunities to partner to work on investments and involvement in projects that have the potential to significantly grow the ocean economy. The overarching Technology Leadership Program is intended to strengthen the partnerships between SMEs, large firms, academic and research institutions.

The CGIO and team will be accountable to actively engage with partners and experts on a global basis to develop innovative solutions to lower the costs of ocean data acquisition, increase the quality and quantity of data. The CGIO will lead the ongoing enhancement of networking, investment, technology, and partnering systems to drive greater efficiency and improved analytics and metrics to track program performance, priorities, return on investments, as well as to promote OSC and the oceans economy sector outcomes more broadly.

 

Key Accountabilities:

Growth Strategy & Plan

  • Lead the Growth Strategy and plans with clear deliverables and KPIs
  • Facilitate growth through collaboration and exploring sector trends, opportunities, and solutions
  • Identify net new prospects through cross-industry collaboration on next generation innovation and growth
  • Create strategies to improve industry/sector capacity to bring concepts, products, and/or services to market
  • Take action to accelerate development and commercialization of made-in-Canada innovation that are driving technological solutions, digitized data collection, and enhanced working environments

Relationship Management

  • Manage key relationships with partners/stakeholders through trust, engagement, and involvement
  • Cultivate strong partnerships internally and externally to enhance productivity and processes to deliver on OSC priorities

Technology Leadership Program

  • Lead project idea development, project selection, funding, and on-going monitoring of projects
  • Report on the progress of the technology leadership program objectives, gaps, outcomes and KPIs
  • Build connections across projects to share ideas, innovations, learnings, best practices, and outcomes

Investment Plan:

  • Build strategic investment opportunities for international collaboration and enhancing commercial supply chain access for Canadian ocean technology providers.
  • Identify and engage with potential domestic and global investors through proposal preparations and investor presentations
  • Establish investment policies, standards, systems, related processes, portfolio management structures, and decision-making frameworks
  • Ensure prudent investment portfolio management including allocation of assets, governance protocols for compliance reporting, process for recommendations and decision making

IP/Data Strategy & IP/Data Registry:

  • Oversee Intellectual Property creation and IP portfolio management
  • Establish process for members to secure appropriate IP rights aligned with their strategic positions, commercial interests, investment level and best practice
  • Oversee governance framework to foster data sharing with clear and transparent rules on data access, IP protection, and registry management

 

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

The CGIO will bring the professional values, collegial leadership style, ambition and runway to grow the oceans industry and sector, as well as OSC.  The CGIO will be an enthusiastic, tech savvy, accomplished, confident, low-ego executive who is passionate about leading from a strong foundation of values based on teamwork.  The CGIO will bring strong relationship skills to enhance sector engagement, drive innovative solutions and excellence; and motivate self and team to consistently deliver on targets and goals. The CGIO will be required to travel more than 30% of the time and is able to work in a remote/hybrid model with a flexible schedule.

 

Experience:

  • Minimum of 10 years’ senior leadership experience in one or more roles focused on growth, innovation, technology, strategy and or investor relations
  • Minimum of 10 years of middle management leadership experience in dynamic, complex, project-based environments with multiple diverse stakeholders
  • MBA designation would be an asset
  • Experience in the Oceans sector would be an asset

 

Strategic and Innovative Thinking:

  • Agile, innovative, strategic thinker with ability to contribute to and execute on continuous improvement
  • Brings a global perspective able to contribute to the overall 5-year strategy
  • Strong business and financial acumen with understanding of investor relations and investment portfolios
  • Effective decision-making; considerate of multiple factors in a dynamic, complex, nuanced environment

 

Results Focused:

  • Proven track record of working in a high-paced environment focused on delivering KPIs to achieve results
  • Strong decision-making capabilities achieved through consultation and supported by evidence and best practice
  • Highly motivated with strong change resiliency
  • Strong planning and organization skills with ability to delegate
  • Strives for continuous improvement towards world leading processes, practices, programs, and investments

 

Relationship Leadership:

  • Strong networking, marketing, and engagement capabilities to increase awareness, build contacts, create opportunities, and gain insights and gain early inclusion in strategic investment discussions
  • Strong leader who can build and manage a diverse, high performing, and outcomes focused team
  • Trusted and respected relationship builder who can work with diverse stakeholders with unique needs and expectations (internally and externally) to find solutions to challenging issues/problems
  • Open to diverse opinions and approaches and seeks out different perspectives on challenging and or emerging trends and opportunities
  • Champion for equity, diversity and inclusion and demonstrates commitment through actions
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate verbally, in writing, and in presentations
  • Ability to move internal and external stakeholders forward

 

We are excited to continue building our team with experienced, diverse professionals who are passionate about realizing Canada’s opportunity and growing the ocean economy in a digital, sustainable, and inclusive way. 

 

Apply Now:  Submit your cover letter and CV in confidence to www.royerthompson.com

 

Chief Engagement & Communications Officer (CECO)

Location:             Anywhere in Atlantic Canada (remote work arrangement)

Start Date:           preferably by April 1, 2023

 

ABOUT US:

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (“OSC”) is an innovative and imaginative organization with national scope that is ensuring we as Canadians, achieve sustainable economic growth in our ocean-based industries while preserving the health and protection of one of our greatest natural resources.

The OSC collaborates with investors and partners from across ocean industries to develop and commercialize innovative solutions and create growth opportunities within Canada’s ocean economy, delivering cross-sectoral solutions, building a strong global ocean brand, and increasing Canada’s ocean workforce.  Our organizational values diversity, creativity, ambition, collaboration, and inclusion.  The OSC has a team of over 25 employees across seven provinces and growing.

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster creates new business opportunities for large-scale companies (anchor firms) as well as small to medium size entities (SMEs). It promotes and facilitates new partnerships between businesses, research institutions, and academia, helping them to undertake new business initiatives, develop and market innovative products, and become part of new and existing supply chains. OSC supports organizations to be globally competitive, expand into new markets and to significantly grow the ocean economy.

 

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Engagement & Communications Officer (“CECO”) will lead innovative engagement and communications strategies, programs, events and systems to foster sector collaboration, build ocean talent, increase awareness of Canada’s ocean brand and build the ocean community.

The CECO will work collaboratively with partners, members, Indigenous communities, regional and global communities, and all levels of government to further strengthen and expand Canada’s ocean ecosystem and build new opportunities for innovation. This includes supporting the creation of new ocean startups, increasing partnerships, connecting entrepreneurs to resources, facilitating SME-supply chain collaborations and advising ocean industry leadership. The CECO and team will be responsible for all aspects of brand management, media communications, and impactful communication strategies to build awareness and report on OSC activities.

The CECO will be accountable for talent programming working with ecosystem partners to build inclusive talent attraction programs; address shared talent challenges; raise awareness of ocean opportunities; and enhance required skills and competencies.  The CECO will seek out funding opportunities with public and private individuals and/or organizations to support OSC project activities.

 

Key Accountabilities:

 

Ecosystem Engagement

  • Develop and execute on the Innovation Ecosystem Strategy including KPIs and regular tracking/reporting, and increasing the visibility of OSC programs, relationships and knowledge of ocean activities and marine assets
  • Develop and implement an international engagement strategy including KPIs and regular tracking/reporting
  • Oversee the OSC’s Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategic initiatives

 

Communications and Brand/Reputation Management

  • Lead the OSC communications and branding strategies and activities including social media presence, traditional media, keynote speaking opportunities, website and member portal, and enhance online presence

 

Community/Member Relations

  • Lead the design and execution of engagement activities with a multi-faceted and diverse membership
  • Lead the shaping and implementation of engagement with indigenous leaders and communities
  • Develop and support strong trusted relationships with OSC members to share insights and learnings
  • Champion for equity, diversity and inclusion and demonstrates commitment through actions

 

Oceans Sector Talent

  • Oversee inclusive talent attracting and retention programs to increase sector capacity and capabilities, attract the best entrepreneurs; and support the growth of a diverse and inclusive workforce
  • Gather and report on talent trends, analytics and program outcomes

 

Government Relations

  • Develop and implement engagement strategies with all levels of government and related agencies
  • Contribute to creation/modification of government’s policies, regulations and legislation to ensure they reflect the needs of members and provide a competitive operating environment for the industry

 

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE:

 

The CECO will be a dynamic, relationship focused, innovative, collaborative leader who is motivated to engage with others towards building awareness, education and solving ocean sector challenges.   The CECO will be an accomplished, low-ego, confident executive passionate about leading from a strong foundation of values based on teamwork, driving innovative solutions; and consistently delivering.

 

Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field including communications, marketing, public affairs, government relations
  • Minimum of 15 years working experience in progressively more senior leadership roles in various areas of responsibilities (e.g. engagement, communications, government relations, community relations)
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an executive level role
  • Successful experiences in partnering with Indigenous communities
  • Experience in dynamic, complex, project based environments with multiple diverse stakeholders

 

Strategic and Innovative Thinking:

  • Demonstrated success in developing/implementing multi-faceted engagement and communication strategies
  • Proven ability to cultivate and sustain strategic partnerships, including community based and member organizations, government agencies, and in both the public, private and NFP sectors
  • Strong business and financial acumen, along with experience in politically sensitive community processes
  • Effective decision-making with ability to consider multiple factors in a dynamic, complex, nuanced environment

 

Relationship Leadership:

  • Relationship-centric style willing to seek out diverse viewpoints from perspective of all stakeholders
  • Collaborative and inclusive team player motivated to find solutions to challenging issues and problems
  • Ability to create and implement impactful and meaningful engagement and communication strategies
  • Strong people leader who can build and manage a diverse, high performing, and outcomes focused team

 

Results Focused:

  • Focus on continuous improvement efforts towards world leading processes, practices, and programs
  • Effectively manages change; demonstrates flexibility and agility to deliver in a transforming environment
  • Strong planning and organization skills with ability to delegate
  • Able to work under tight timelines in a fast-paced environment while ensuring quality and accountability

 

Interpersonal Skills

  • High emotional intelligence; able to understand the needs and concerns of partners, members and communities
  • Resourceful, proactive, self-motivated leader with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills (written, verbal and in presentations)

 

We are excited to continue building our team with experienced, diverse professionals who are passionate about realizing Canada’s opportunity and growing the ocean economy in a digital, sustainable, and inclusive way. 

 

Apply Now:

Submit your cover letter and CV in confidence to the CEO, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster:  HREXEC@oceansupercluster.ca

HR Manager – Hiring

HR Manager

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster

www.oceansupercluster.ca

 

About us:

Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is an innovative and imaginative organization with national scope that is ensuring we as Canadians, achieve sustainable economic growth in our ocean-based industries while preserving the health and protection of one of our greatest natural resources.

The OSC’s mandate is to collaborate with investors and partners from across ocean industries to develop and commercialize innovative solutions to shared challenges. The OSC guides ideas from the conceptual to the actual; partnering with industries who have big goals and innovative concepts. Actualizing these ideas is our passion and the process is our mission.  Our organizational values include creativity, inclusion, collaboration, and inclusion.

About the candidate:

The OSC has a team of over 25 employees across six provinces and growing.  We are looking for an innovative thinker to drive our HR agenda and contribute to the growth, retention and development of the team supporting the ocean economy and the health of the planet.  Reporting to, and working with, our CAO, the successful candidate will be our primary HR lead across a variety of areas and help drive our HR agenda and take ownership of key HR activities and initiatives.   With a number of HR programs and initiatives in place, we are looking for someone to take lead and make recommendations to build on what is already in place.  This is an exciting role that will help shape HR at the OSC and provide value across a variety of areas for the organization.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Lead and oversee recruitment and hiring
  • Drive our performance management and employee engagement programs
  • Deliver and shape our learning and growth plan
  • Oversee our onboarding and offboarding programs
  • Participate in the OSC’s EDI committee and with implementation of our EDI plan
  • Play an active role on the OSC’s social committee
  • Assist with planning staff retreats and offsites
  • Drive reporting and maximize the use of data/usage of HR systems
  • Help enhance existing HR policies, systems and processes, creating new policies and processes as required
  • Formulate employee retention strategies and approaches to retain talent
  • Drive OSC’s internal communications as it pertains to talent and HR

Ideal Candidate Profile:

  • 5-10 years of relevant experience in HR across a variety of functional areas including performance management
  • Experience leading/designing programs or enhancing elements of existing programs/policies
  • Familiarity with (or experience) establishing and executing talent strategies
  • Comfortable working both with senior teams and junior staff members
  • Ability to connect and easily forge relationships with staff
  • Comfortable working remotely and engaging virtually with key stakeholders
  • A self-starter, who can work independently to successfully deliver outcomes

We are excited to continue building our team with experienced professionals who are passionate about realizing Canada’s opportunity and growing the ocean economy in a digital, sustainable, and inclusive way. 

 

Apply Now: HR@oceansupercluster.ca.