Senior Manager, DEI

The Opportunity

Company, Department: Emera Inc, Corporate Human Resources

Location: Halifax, NS

Closing Date: November 10, 2024

This posting reflects the succession plan for the Director of DEI.

At Emera, you’ll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcome and supported. Come, build a career as unique as you are, making an impact from Atlantic Canada and on our businesses across the US and the Caribbean. Your experience and values will support the Emera team to safely deliver cleaner, reliable energy to our customers.

We have been on a journey to develop diverse and inclusive teams. We are seeking a DEI practitioner who has a commitment to assist with our evolution by serving as a lead champion for driving positive change while embedding DEI throughout our business. This role executes on the DEI strategy by assisting the Director, DEI in evaluating our opportunities, evolving our processes, policies and practices. The position has a hands-on approach to change management, while collaborating with global teams and DEI champions, committees, and employee resource groups. As the successful candidate you value a diverse workforce that is reflective of your community and support a workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and seen.

As Senior Manager, DEI, you will:

• Assist with continuing to evolve the DEI roadmap, envisioning a future state, proposing solutions that leverage our best practices, trends and insights.
• Partner with Human Resource peers to embed DEI through all aspects of our people strategy.
• Participate in the Global DEI council, and corporate DEI network.
• Coordinate and/or design opportunities to celebrate and learn more about diversity to build our fluency.
• Effectively build internal and external relationships to champion a culture of psychological safety.
• Understand how the business operates and identify opportunities to advance the DEI strategy.
• Connect with internal communities and capture feedback to influence the strategy.
• Foster inclusion, by collaborating with the Emera DEI champions to identify opportunities and share best practices.
• In collaboration with the Director of DEI assist with determining related priorities at Emera Corporate and the Emera affiliates, where required, to achieve their goals.
• Provide support on complex and nuanced employee relations situations as appropriate.
• Recommend, develop, and deliver, engaging education workshops, panels, speakers that integrate diversity, equity & inclusion principles, where appropriate.
• Track, evaluate, and report on the effectiveness of diversity activities through measurement, globally and locally. Present and/or report on milestone progress toward strategic priorities.
  
  
  

You will be responsible for your personal safety and that of co-workers, by observing all Occupational Health and Safety Rules and Regulations.

What skills will make you successful?

• A minimum of 7 years of HR or other related experience with recent experience working in the area of DEI.
• Demonstrable cross-cultural awareness.
• Post secondary education in related field or relevant experience.
• Experience in developing, promoting, educating successful DEI strategic plans and processes across a diverse employee population to scale and for sustainability.
• Proven ability to create and implement organizational strategic plans; proven project and program management with a focus on process improvements.
• Knowledge of laws across all jurisdictions and policies affecting marginalized groups and ability to integrate these perspectives into DEI programs.
• High level of strategic agility, creativity, attention to detail, critical decision making, and strong ability to execute.
• Superior written and oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to develop and present issues to a diverse group in a compelling and influential manner, at all levels.
• The incumbent will work closely with the Director, DEI with the opportunity to develop their skills and their career.
  
  
  

The perks of joining our team? We offer:

Flexibility: Hybrid work model with flexible remote workdays.

Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness center, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.

Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.

Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching & volunteer programs, and scholarships for children of employees.

Competitive Compensation: A comprehensive benefits plan, short-term incentive plan, and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion at Emera

As one of Atlantic Canada’s largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.

Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.

Recruitment and Promotion Policy

The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values. The purpose of our recruitment policy is to provide a consistent framework to support fair and equitable attraction, hiring, and retention of the best talent for vacant positions. We are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants and is guided by our company values.