Bilingual Vice President, Human Resources

About our Client: Build Canada Homes (BCH) is Canada’s federal housing agency with the mandate to scale up the supply of affordable housing across the country. By leveraging public lands, deploying flexible financial tools, and acting as a catalyst for modern methods of construction, BCH is helping drive a more productive and innovative homebuilding sector. Working in partnership with non-profits, Indigenous organizations, private developers, and all orders of government, BCH is accelerating the delivery of housing Canadians need—faster, smarter, and more affordable.

Their priorities

• Leverage public lands and mobilize capital to increase housing supply.
• Accelerate large-scale affordable housing projects through partnerships.
• Advance modern methods of construction to boost productivity and lower costs.

Following Royal Assent of the Build Canada Homes Act in June 2026, BCH is in a formative stage of transition toward a Crown Corporation. This creates a meaningful opportunity to help establish the governance, accountability, the legal, risk, and corporate foundations of a national mission-driven organization with significant scale, visibility, complexity, and public trust responsibilities.

This role is offers a hybrid model with 2-3 days in office/week.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President, Corporate Services and CFO and working closely with the executive leadership team, the VP, Human Resources will establish the people strategy, programs, operating model, and organizational frameworks required to attract, develop, and engage a high-performing workforce capable of delivering on BCH's ambitious national housing mandate. As BCH continues to evolve and integrate multiple employee groups into a unified organization, this leader will play a critical role in defining the employee experience, culture, workforce strategy, and organizational design needed to support both immediate operational priorities and long-term growth.

Working across BCH and with leaders, employees, and external partners, the VP, Human Resources will serve as a trusted advisor and enterprise leader, helping to create a modern, agile, and inclusive organization. The role will lead the development of foundational HR programs, systems, and policies while driving organizational effectiveness, change management, culture integration, talent strategy, and workforce planning. This individual will have the opportunity to influence key decisions regarding organizational structure, compensation and total rewards frameworks, employee engagement, workforce governance, and future HR team design.

The VP, Human Resources provides leadership across workforce planning, organizational design, talent management, labour and employee relations, total rewards, HR operations, and people analytics. The role will also oversee workforce governance, policy development, and compliance practicesappropriate for a Crown corporation environment, ensuring Human Resources serves as a strategic partner and enterprise enabler as BCH continues to build and scale. This is an exceptional opportunity for a transformational HR leader who is energized by building, influencing, and creating lasting organizational impact from the ground floor of a mandate-driven organization with national significance.

• Establishes Human Resources priorities, programs, and plans that enhance workforce capability, organizational effectiveness, and employee performance.
• Leads enterprise workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, leadership development and organizational change initiatives.
• Provides strategic advice and guidance to senior leaders…