PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and oversee the planning, preparation and coordination of collective bargaining for staff employee groups, this includes planning, providing guidance to management, coordinating the preparation of collective bargaining mandates, including being a key resource for the costing of the collective agreements.
• Provide guidance to University Community and to colleagues in the other units of Human Resources in interpreting and applying the collective agreements and liaise with the latter in handling various labour relations cases.
• Interact with Union representatives representing different bargaining units with different needs, interests and approaches to labour relations, in matters of collective agreement interpretation and administration and other personnel management issues.
• Act as a Spokesperson in collective agreement negotiations. Propose changes to the collective agreements, analyse, develop and recommend the fin...