Human Resources

Executive Director, Terry Voss
Telephone: (204) 474-8717
E-mail: Terry_Voss@umanitoba.ca

Mission Statement
To provide leadership to all members of the University community in promoting and enhancing organizational effectiveness through excellence in human resource management practices, and in ensuring that Human Resource activities and services meet or exceed organizational needs.

In support of this mission statement, organizational effectiveness is signified by excellence in human resource management that enables the organization to achieve its objectives through the recruitment, development and retention of staff and students.

Human Resources is the responsibility of the Executive Director who reports directly to the Vice-President (Administration).  Supporting the Executive Director are the Director, HR Services; Director, Environmental Health & Safety Office; Director, Staff Benefits; Business Officer; Director, Learning and Development Services; 3 Staff Relations Officers, an Employment Equity Officer; and an Equity Services Advisor.  There are sixty full-time staff members supporting the total Human Resources function.  In addition, there is a Sexual Harassment and Human Rights Investigation Officer position which is contracted out on a part-time basis.

Human Resources has a number of responsibilities with regard to both academic and support staff.  Those responsibilities include: staff relations (collective bargaining, collective agreement administration, labour relations); employment/staff recruitment; job evaluation & classification administration; human resource information systems; organizational and staff development; policy development and administration; equity services (diversity education, employment equity, sexual harassment & human rights investigation); environmental health & safety and staff benefits & pensions.

There are approximately nine thousand employees at the University of Manitoba of whom forty-two hundred are support staff and forty-nine hundred academic staff.  The majority of University staff are in certified bargaining units of which there are eight, i.e. four support staff bargaining units, and four academic staff bargaining units.  There are also thirteen non-bargaining unit employee groups at the University.