Auteur/autrice : paddy.moore@oceansupercluster.ca
Human Resources Manager
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
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Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation
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Canada’s Ocean Supercluster and Fórum Oceano Announce Collaborative Partnership to Advance Pan-Atlantic Blue Economy

(Lisbon, Portugal) – Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (OSC) and Fórum Oceano have announced their new, collaborative partnership to promote sustainable investment and growth of the blue economy in regional and international networks. This agreement, signed yesterday at the Canadian Embassy in Lisbon, will formalize the partners’ collaboration particularly in the areas of data and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Enhanced international cooperation is needed to unlock the potential of data and AI solutions to address global ocean challenges. In their pan-Atlantic partnership, the OSC and Fórum Oceano will work together to exchange competence and experience within operation, development and governance of the ocean clusters to advance work in these spaces.
The partnership between OSC and Fórum Oceano will include:
- Knowledge exchange and transfer on the use of AI in ocean economy
- The facilitation of pan-Atlantic collaboration in R&D in ocean data and AI
- Increase collaboration of Atlantic coastal cities in climate resilience planning and climate change adaptation
- Shared and cross promotion and public awareness on the advancement of the blue economy
- Access to the services offered by the innovation centers included in the Blue Hub Portugal Canadian innovation, research and development spaces
- Collaboration between partners in each cluster to undertake projects, events and partnership opportunities
“Sharing knowledge, experience and data is key to a successful blue economy,” said Kendra MacDonald, CEO of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster. “We are excited about the potential of this partnership with the Fórum Oceano where we will work together with our memberships to cross collaborate and advance solutions in the global blue economy.”
Canada has recognized the need to support the commercialization of AI driven ocean solutions by funding the launch of the OSC’s new AI Ocean Program, as part of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy (PCAIS). This program stream represents, for one of the first times in Canada, the launch a program dedicated to funding ocean innovation using AI platforms.
“Cooperation is strategic for making a sustainable blue economy happen. The challenges are systemic, as also the opportunities. We are very excited with this MoU with Super Ocean Cluster from Canada, » said Ruben Eiras, Secretary General of Forum Oceano. It opens new horizons for synergies with our recent innovation ecosystem projects financed by the EuropeanCommission: Blue Hub Portugal, a network of 7 blue innovation centers for Blue economy in ports; Portugal Blue Digital Hub, an European Digital Innovation Hub for Blue Economy, where we will have 1 million euros a year for financing blue Digital startups and SMEs.”

About Canada’s Ocean Supercluster
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is a pan-Canadian, industry-led transformative cluster focused on tackling some of the biggest challenges across ocean sectors through a collaborative program designed to accelerate the development and commercialization of globally relevant solutions, while also building a highly-capable, inclusive workforce. The OSC has approved 86 projects with a total value of more than $400 million which will deliver more than 130 new made-in-Canada ocean products, processes, and services to sell to the world.
Media Contact:
Nancy Andrews
Canada’s Ocean Supercluster
nancy.andrews@oceansupercluster.ca
709.725.7070
Supergrappe des océans du Canada et Fórum Oceano annoncent un partenariat de collaboration pour faire progresser l’économie bleue panatlantique
Supergrappe des océans du Canada (SOC) et Fórum Oceano ont annoncé leur nouveau partenariat de collaboration visant à promouvoir l’investissement durable et la croissance de l’économie bleue dans les réseaux régionaux et internationaux. Signé hier à l’ambassade du Canada à Lisbonne, cet accord vient officialiser la collaboration des partenaires, particulièrement dans les domaines des données et de l’intelligence artificielle (IA).
Pour relever des défis mondiaux liés aux océans, une collaboration internationale renforcée s’avère nécessaire pour libérer le potentiel des solutions de données et d’IA. Ainsi, dans le cadre de leur partenariat panatlantique, SOC et Fórum Oceano travailleront ensemble pour échanger leurs compétences et leur expérience dans le domaine de l’exploitation, du développement et de la gouvernance des grappes océaniques en vue de faire progresser les travaux dans ces espaces.
Le partenariat entre SOC et Fórum Oceano comprendra :
- L’échange et le transfert de connaissances sur l’utilisation de l’IA dans l’économie océanique.
- La facilitation de la collaboration panatlantique en R et D dans le domaine des données et de l’IA pour l’océan.
- L’accroissement de la collaboration entre les villes côtières de l’Atlantique en matière de planification de la résilience climatique et d’adaptation aux changements climatiques.
- La promotion partagée et croisée et la sensibilisation du public à l’avancement de l’économie bleue.
- Un accès aux services offerts par les centres d’innovation inclus dans les espaces de l’innovation, de la recherche et de développement du Canada dans le Pôle bleu du Portugal.
- Une collaboration entre les partenaires de chaque groupe pour entreprendre des projets, des événements et des possibilités de partenariat.
« Le partage des connaissances, de l’expérience et des données est essentiel à la réussite d’une économie bleue », a déclaré Kendra MacDonald, directrice générale de Supergrappe des océans du Canada. « Nous sommes ravis du potentiel de ce partenariat avec Fórum Oceano. Nous travaillerons de concert avec nos membres pour faciliter cette collaboration et faire progresser les solutions dans l’économie bleue mondiale. »
Le Canada a reconnu la nécessité d’appuyer la commercialisation de solutions océaniques axées sur l’IA en finançant le lancement du nouveau programme AI pour l’océan dans le cadre de la Stratégie pancanadienne d’intelligence artificielle. Ce volet du programme constitue une première au Canada relativement au lancement d’un programme consacré au financement de l’innovation océanique recourant à des plates-formes d’IA.
Project Analyst
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


