Workforce Advisor

STATUS: Temporary for 104 weeks

JOB POSTING NUMBER: 3266

POSTING PERIOD: Indeterminate

SALARY: Class 6 – from $79,533.04 to $104,616.96 / year - Salary 2025

SCHEDULE: 33.45 hours per week, DAY; MONDAY to FRIDAY - 08:30 to 16:30 - Temporary position until December 2028

WORKING MODE: Hybrid

WORK LOCATION: Economic Development, 1333 BOUL CHOMEDEY OFFICE 401 A/S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LAVAL H7V 3Y1

The challenges that await you

Reporting to your supervisor, you will be tasked with supporting businesses in the region to meet their workforce needs. In this capacity, you contribute to the implementation of workforce promotion strategies by stimulating regional collaboration and coordinating actions carried out by various partners and socio-economic stakeholders in the Laval region.

You will act as a resource person in workforce promotion for businesses and the City. You will initiate, coordinate, and participate in promotional and training activities. You will conduct strategic monitoring, perform research, formulate recommendations, and participate in establishing intervention strategies for Laval businesses and foreign temporary workers regarding international mobility.

More specifically, your main responsibilities will include:

• Supporting businesses by developing, in close collaboration with the community, mechanisms and tools that facilitate the recruitment of workforce from Quebec and abroad;
• Gathering workforce needs from Laval businesses, identifying opportunities, and developing strategies and action plans to address the workforce challenges in the area;
• Designing, developing, and proposing projects, programs, and procedures related to your area of expertise and ensuring their compliance once approved;
• Acting as a resource person, responding to requests, providing all relevant information and explanations, and ensuring the dissemination of information when required;
• Collaborating and/or participating with partners (Montréal International, MESI, etc.) in missions abroad for talent attraction;
• Conducting strategic monitoring and staying informed about market trends and any information and working methods that could improve the Service's activities and support for businesses. Formulating appropriate recommendations regarding potential impacts and necessary changes. Developing and maintaining various tools and making them available to the served clientele.

The ideal profile for us

• Holding a bachelor's degree in a relevant field;
• Having five (5) years of experience in relevant functions, particularly in human resources, recruitment, employability, and strategic business support;
• Experience in designing and implementing support processes (diagnosis, action plan, follow-up);
• Membership in the Order of Certified Human Resources Advisors - CRHA is desirable.

Skills

• Analytical ability
• Collaboration
• Initiative/autonomy
• Client orientation
• Results orientation
• Openness to diversity
• Mastery of one's profession
• Ability to advise/support

The benefits of being part of our team

Choosing the City of Laval means working for the third largest city in Quebec on diverse and stimulating mandates. It also means having the opportunity to grow within a human, committed team that enjoys working with pleasure.

For this position, we offer competitive working conditions and social benefits:

• Defined benefit pension plan;
• Work schedule allowing for work-life balance;
• Work location easily accessible with free parking;
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP);
• Possibility of accumulating overtime;
• Reimbursement of professional membership fees;
• Priority access to a CPE daycare.

Only candidates meeting the requirements will be contacted. 

The City of Laval is committed to promoting an inclusive and equitable work environment as part of its employment equity program. It recognizes and values diversity in all its forms and invites women, individuals from visible and ethnic minorities, Indigenous peoples, and persons with disabilities to apply.

 

If you require special accommodations to participate in the selection process, please let us know as soon as you receive your invitation.