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About the Role

SickKids Foundation is seeking a transformative leader to join as Associate Director, Culture & Workforce Capability. This role will help build an empowered, engaged, and future-ready foundation where all employees feel a sense of belonging. The Associate Director plays a key role in shaping and advancing a people-centered, future skills ready and values-driven organizational culture that fosters engagement, continuous learning, and equity.

Responsibilities

Champion and operationalize the organization’s refreshed values across employee programs, leadership practices, communications, and workplace experiences.
Evolve the Foundation’s cultural journey initiatives to strengthen engagement, inclusion, collaboration, accountability, and belonging.
Foster values-based and inclusive leadership practices that support psychological safety, accessibility, employee well-being, and equitable employee experiences.
Facilitate organization-wide conversations, workshops, and initiatives related to workplace culture, collaboration, inclusion, employee engagement, and belonging.
Support initiatives that celebrate diverse identities, perspectives, experiences, and contributions across the organization.
Identify and address cultural or systemic barriers that may negatively impact employee experience, inclusion, accessibility, or opportunities for growth and participation.
Provide leadership and direction to Employee Resource Groups, EDI Committees, Culture Champions group and other community-building initiatives.
Design and enhance employee experience initiatives across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, engagement, recognition, development, wellness, retention, and offboarding.
Oversee and implement employee listening strategies such as engagement surveys, pulse checks, focus groups, and feedback forums.
Analyze employee feedback, engagement data, demographic insights, and organizational trends to identify opportunities related to culture, retention, skills development, inclusion, and employee well-being.
Develop and implement strategies and action plans that strengthen employee connection, engagement, belonging, and overall workplace experience.
Create equitable, accessible, and culturally responsive employee programs and initiatives.
Support initiatives that enhance employee well-being, flexibility, accessibility, accommodation, and psychological safety.
Partner with leaders to strengthen team effectiveness, communication, engagement, and inclusive employee practices.
Monitor and evaluate employee experience initiatives using qualitative and quantitative data.
Support organizational transformation and culture change initiatives through change management, communication, and engagement strategies.
Partner with P&C and leadership teams to strengthen organizational effectiveness, workforce engagement, and talent retention strategies.
Contribute to the development, review, and continuous evolution of people policies, practices, and frameworks.
Support the facilitation of workshops, discussions, and learning opportunities related to culture, employee engagement, inclusive leadership, unconscious bias, accessibility, psychological safety, collaboration, and team effectiveness.
Support organizational learning and leadership development initiatives.
Navigate cultural change in ways that foster transparency, empathy, trust, inclusion, and employee engagement.
Monitor emerging trends, leading practices, and legislative developments related to employee experience, workplace culture, accessibility, and equity and inclusion.
Support the integration of equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging principles into organizational decision-making, leadership practices, and employee experiences.

Requirements

Progressive demonstrated experience and educational background in a combination of HR business partnership, employee experience, organizational development, and/or culture transformation with a strong foundation in EDI principles and best practices.
Strong understanding of organizational culture, employee engagement, and equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging principles and measurements.
Effective facilitation, communication, relationship-building, and change management skills.
Ability to deploy employee and organizational data to inform strategy and decision-making.
Demonstrated ability to foster collaborative, inclusive, and employee-centered workplace practices.
Strong project management and stakeholder management capabilities.
Experience supporting organizational transformation or culture evolution initiatives.
Leadership experience managing projects, programs, or teams through influence.
Strong digital acumen; deploying technology, AI, and other tools to augment work outputs.

Skills

Values-based leadership
Inclusive and employee-centered mindset
Emotional intelligence and empathy
Strategic thinking and execution
Facilitation and influence
Collaboration and relationship management
Data-informed decision-making
Change leadership
Communication and storytelling

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Permanent Full-Time
Hybrid work model: minimum two days per week in-office (Tuesday and Wednesday)

Experience Level

Associate Director

Salary/Compensations

Expected Hiring Salary Range: $99,297– $124,121 base plus performance-based incentives, with the ability to progress up to a base salary of $142,739 based on demonstrated proficiency and individual performance.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefit package (includes a flex benefit plan)
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work
Generous annual paid time off options
Pension plan
Birth parent/parental top up

About the Company

SickKids Foundation, with over 50 years of philanthropic impact, is Canada's largest charitable funder of child health research, learning and care, raising over $200 million last year.
As a national charity, SickKids Foundation invests in national and international initiatives to benefit children in Canada and around the world.
As the fundraising partner to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), we are aligned in supporting Precision Child Health (PCH), the future of tailoring medicine to each child's unique traits so SickKids can diagnose faster, treat smarter, and predict better.
SickKids Foundation is committed to an inclusive culture by embedding equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in our policies, practices, and behaviours.
We aim to build awareness and skills in this area, both internally and with our partners.
Our commitment extends to creating a safe, positive work environment.

Equal Opportunity

SickKids Foundation is committed to its people and the talents, capabilities, and perspectives they bring to our mission. We live that commitment by being open and accessible to all, by valuing and respecting every individual, and by equally supporting every employee.
As an organization proud to have joined the BlackNorth Initiative’s CEO pledge, we uphold our commitment by inviting and encouraging individuals from diverse lived experiences from Black, Indigenous, communities of colour, people with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community and all candidates who may contribute to the further diversification of the Foundation’s community.
Candidates who require accommodation during the recruitment process should contact the People & Culture team at: recruitment@sickkidsfoundation.com