Organizational Design and Evaluation Consultant Human Resources

Organizational Design and Job Evaluation Consultant

Human Resources

Competition No. 26.09.223

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Full-Time Continuing (35 hours per week) $84,387 to $113,923 per annum October 9, 2026

Mac Ewan University is where caring faculty help people connect their passions to their future paths. Located in the heart of Edmonton's diverse and dynamic downtown community, and on the traditional lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and homelands of the Métis people, Mac Ewan is known for exceptional undergraduate learning. With its dedication to teaching excellence, informed by scholarly research, innovation, and creative activity, Mac Ewan provides an exceptional collaborative and supportive learning environment with a commitment to human rights, environmental sustainability, and opportunities for community engagement.

We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community for all peoples, cultures, and identities.
Our comprehensive undergraduate university offers 55 programs to more than 20,000 full- and part-time students in business, communications, community and human services, design, fine and performing arts, health, humanities, natural science, nursing, public safety, and social science. Through a wide array of experiential learning opportunities, and strategic relationships in the community, we partner with others to produce graduates of stature. Along with a robust grounding in their chosen disciplines, Mac Ewan students are given durable life skills that prepare them to take on the world.

Mac Ewan University is seeking an Organizational Design and Job Evaluation Consultant for a full-time continuing opportunity with our Human Resources department.

Reporting to the Director, Organizational Design and Development, you will work to improve organizational effectiveness through the development, project management, analysis, and implementation of organizational and job design solutions and job evaluation activities at Mac Ewan University.

Key responsibilities include:

• Continuously building and maintaining relationships with senior leaders and clients to understand business needs and strategic goals;
• Developing and maintaining institutional standards and guidelines for organizational and job design best practices;
• Acting as a subject matter expert and influencer in providing organizational design expertise and advice to assist leaders in implementing and managing organizational structures and systems that foster excellence and equity;
• Conducting internal and external scans to support evidence-based organizational design decision-making;
• Designing new jobs and redesigning existing jobs in order to improve role clarification, work coverage, and succession opportunities, taking into consideration job evaluation implications;
• In collaboration with Human Resources Business Partners, developing organizational review implementation plans, including phasing, impact analysis, communications, and change management;
• Conducting detailed stakeholder assessments and job audits to ascertain change impacts and needs, to tailor messages, actions, and approaches to different audiences;
• Maintaining internal equity through the delivery of job evaluation using the University's designated job evaluation plan(s) and Job Families Framework for Mac Ewan Staff Union and Out of Scope positions;
• Leading and/or participating in projects that ensure the effectiveness of job evaluation program delivery such as benchmarking, evaluation plan updates/maintenance, and developing informational resources;
• Providing training and communications about compensation, job design, and evaluation processes to the Mac Ewan community;
• Evaluating and adjudicating job evaluation appeals, and handling grievances related to job evaluation issues which includes working collaboratively with Human Resources Business Partners when required; and
• Liaising and working with Mac Ewan Staff Union representatives on job evaluation issue resolution, answering inquiries, and providing information when required.

You will have:

• Excellent analytical and evaluative skills;
• Client focus with the ability to develop effective partnerships;
• The ability to foster and maintain relationships with senior leadership, operational managers, a wide variety of staff, union representatives, as well as team members;
• The ability to advise on effective strategies for organizational and job design, transformation, and alignment;
• The ability to work well under pressure with…