Organizational Design and Classification Consultant

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada requires professional services resources with the experience and skill-sets required to support the human resources requirements of managers and executives within the Information Systems Branch (ISB.) This includes the timely operational support to augment organizational capacity in order to complete necessary Human Resources (HR) planning, staffing and resourcing processes. The resulting contract will provide a Branch-wide contracting vehicle that all ISB Directorates can access to support operational staffing activity on an as-and-when-required basis.

Mandatory requirements

• Must be able to provide Client References for 2 different completed projects within the last 5 years demonstrating the following:
  • Organizational design and classification for a GC department or agency;
  • Development of organizational design or classification plans.

Optional requirements

• Experience developing and implementing strategic HR plans, including:
  • Outlining the business context;
  • Analyzing external and internal factors that could have an impact on the workforce;
  • Providing a snapshot of the demographic profile of a directorate’s workforce; and
  • Identifying HR strategic priorities that aim to address existing gaps to help achieve business goals and provided an action plan and way forward to achieve the objectives.
• Experience in the following:
  • Developing job descriptions;
  • Identifying areas in an organization for re-design;
  • Identifying potential solutions;
  • Providing trade off information; and
  • Recommending and successfully deploying a course of action.
• Experience in coaching/mentoring managers on implementing all phases of the classification process.
• Bilingual

General tasks

• Preparing Strategic HR Plans including:
  o Outlining the business context;
  o Analysing external and internal factors that could have an impact on the workforce;
  o Providing a snapshot of the demographic profile of both directorate’s workforce;
  o Identifying HR strategic priorities that aim to address existing gaps to help achieve business goals; and
  o Providing an action plan and way forward on both plans.
• Leading organization and classification projects following project management principles;
• Analyzing current and end state, developing options and recommending new organizational structures (could include costing);
• Reviewing existing processes and organizational structures to determine their efficiency and effectiveness, and making recommendations;
• Performing job, activities and responsibilities analysis;
• Discussing with management in order to clearly define the activities and responsibilities of a specific function and/or organization, and provide options;
• Reviewing, evaluating current work descriptions and recommending appropriate changes;
• Developing and updating generic and specific work descriptions, and delineating responsibilities within streams of work;
• Researching and developing guidelines, procedures and tools;
• Identifying organization for re-design; prototyping potential solutions, providing trade off information and suggesting a recommended course of action;
• Providing advice in defining new requirements and opportunities for applying efficient and effective solutions: identifying and providing preliminary costs of potential options;
• Reviewing, evaluating, new or revised work descriptions; and
• Compiling information and preparing reports.