Associate Vice President, Human Resources

Located on the ancestral Lands of the Lekwungen speaking peoples known today as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and within one of Canada’s most beautiful national historic sites, Royal Roads University has a long history of excellence. This rich tradition has helped shape their unique educational model, with programs that provide life changing experiences that enable professional and personal transformation. 

Royal Roads University was established in 1995 as a public, applied research university. With an exceptional reputation for its blended model of online and in-person learning and teaching, Royal Roads delivers programs that call on students to transform themselves – and the world around them. 

Royal Roads has 81 core faculty members, more than 400 associate faculty and roughly 500 staff members who support approximately 4,300 students. 

An Associate Vice-President, Human Resources (AVP HR) is being sought to bring strategic focus and practical capacity-building to a busy and dedicated team.  A part of the senior management team, and as the senior-most HR executive, the successful candidate will develop and deliver on a strategic HR plan that provides for a clear sense of priority setting and tangible, related operational plans.   Capacity building within the department and across the organization will help ensure that the HR department is a highly positive contributor in shaping the experience and engagement of Royal Roads University’s diverse community and supports the achievement of the University’s strategic plan.

Reporting to the Vice-President, Finance and Operations (VPFO), and leading a team of 12 people, the AVP-HR has a unique opportunity to influence a range of key institutional priorities and contribute to what is an already highly positive working and learning environment.  

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