Jobs at The University of British Columbia

Manages all human resources activities for a large academic healthcare department, including recruitment, appointments, promotions, tenure, employee relations, performance management, leaves, compensation, policy development, and personnel records. Advises faculty, staff, students, supervisors, and committees on HR policies, collective agreements, and employment matters. Oversees faculty appointment processes, orientation, compliance, HR initiatives, and administrative support staff across three hospital sites.

Provides HR services for faculty, researchers, staff, and students. Interprets policies and employment agreements, advises on appointments, compensation, leaves, recruitment, and compliance, and prepares contracts and recommendations. Reviews Workday records, identifies inconsistencies, develops job descriptions and selection tools, delivers HR training, updates guidance, and supports HR projects. Supervises HR assistants and escalates complex or disputed matters to the HR Manager.

Provides confidential executive and administrative support to the Vice President of External Relations. Manages office operations, workflow, scheduling, communications, travel, budgets, research, briefing materials, special projects, and internal and external stakeholder relationships. The role requires independent judgment, discretion, strong organization, project coordination, and effective communication while supporting government relations, institutional partnerships, public engagement, and executive-level activities.

Provides compensation and salary administration advice to departments and employees. Evaluates and classifies positions, audits job postings, supports salary structures, conducts market research and compensation surveys, analyzes compensation data, and advises on collective agreements. The role also supports compensation projects, develops job guidelines, prepares regulatory data, resolves compensation-related system issues, and trains employees and managers.

Provides operational HR support across the employee lifecycle for term faculty and staff. Responsibilities include recruitment, appointments, compensation, performance reviews, job classifications, policy interpretation, records management, Workday support, employee relations, and HR procedure development. Advises supervisors and employees on policies, collective agreements, legislation, and best practices; trains HR team members; manages confidential records; and supervises support staff while escalating complex matters to the HR Manager.

Coordinates faculty, staff, and student HR processes, including recruitment, appointments, promotions, terminations, payroll changes, records, and confidential inquiries. Supports Workday HR and financial functions, timekeeping, budgeting, expense processing, ledger reconciliation, financial reporting, and departmental guidance. Maintains databases, websites, directories, and administrative processes; coordinates committee meetings, correspondence, documentation, and temporary employee training.

Coordinates academic training program operations, including admissions, scheduling, learner placements, onboarding, committees, evaluations, accreditation reporting, records, web content, expenses, and clinical faculty teaching tracking. Provides guidance to learners and stakeholders, maintains systems and documentation, supports program communications, and improves standard operating procedures. The role requires independent judgment, confidentiality, organization, and effective coordination across university, hospital, faculty, and external partners.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Underground Mining responsible for developing an internationally recognized research program, securing government and industry funding, teaching mining engineering courses, mentoring learners, and contributing university and professional service. The role emphasizes technology-enabled underground mining, including mine planning, automation, equipment systems, reliability, data analytics, sensors, intelligent systems, and control systems. Applicants must hold a relevant PhD and engineering degree, demonstrate research and teaching potential, and be registered or eligible for Professional Engineer registration in British Columbia.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Teaching in Surface Mining Engineering responsible for undergraduate teaching, curriculum development, educational leadership, field-based programming, technical communication, and professional engineering practice. The role requires expertise in surface mine design, orebody modelling, geological models, mine planning, and engineering decision-making. The successful candidate will support accreditation outcomes, collaborate with industry partners, contribute to university service, and advance experiential learning and innovative pedagogy.

Develops and executes communications, marketing, engagement, and event strategies for the Academy of Translational Medicine and Regulatory Science Lab. Creates and edits website, digital, print, social media, video, audio, and graphic content; manages branding, campaigns, stakeholder engagement, and performance reporting. Plans and coordinates events, budgets, suppliers, and logistics while promoting research achievements and maintaining UBC communication and accessibility standards.

The EDI Liaison leads equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives for an NFRF-T grant. Responsibilities include developing surveys, policies, statements, training, and action plans; managing symposium budgets; supporting inclusive student recruitment; gathering student feedback; maintaining secure documentation; monitoring progress; and advising the EDI committee. The role works independently and collaboratively with committee members, students, and principal investigators in a primarily remote environment.

Part-time publishing fellow rotating through acquisitions, editorial, rights, production, marketing, sales, distribution, and finance. Responsibilities include manuscript evaluation, peer review support, proofreading, production scheduling, cover coordination, conference planning, author events, marketing campaigns, social media, and departmental projects. The role provides mentorship and hands-on exposure to scholarly book publishing while supporting equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization in publishing.

Manages clinical placement operations for a distributed Master of Physical Therapy program, coordinating student placements, staff supervision, site agreements, pre-placement requirements, progress tracking, policies, reporting, budgets, outreach, and clinical faculty appointments. The role liaises with universities, clinical partners, preceptors, professional organizations, and health authorities while supporting committees, student issue meetings, appeals, privacy compliance, and special projects.

Provides technical and people leadership for enterprise integration systems and applications. Leads solution design, development, deployment, testing, production support, incident resolution, documentation, and SDLC governance across a portfolio of 300+ integrations. Develops technology roadmaps, mentors technical teams, manages delivery and service-level obligations, coordinates critical incident response, and partners with architects, managers, and stakeholders to implement scalable, reliable integration solutions.

Leads the enterprise DevOps and platform engineering team, providing people and technical leadership for integrations, SDLC, CI/CD, architecture, deployment, testing, scalability, production support, and service delivery. Develops technology roadmaps, manages complex initiatives, oversees Jira and ServiceNow workflows, ensures documentation and service-level commitments, resolves technical issues, and mentors team members. Collaborates with business partners, stakeholders, vendors, and IT teams to deliver reliable enterprise integration services.

Coordinates e-commerce product listings, including preparing and reviewing product information, images, quality checks, publishing, and record maintenance. Responds to routine customer order enquiries, investigates order issues, supports online collections, monitors inventory information, and coordinates product photoshoot logistics. Works within established procedures, maintains accurate records, resolves routine exceptions, and refers complex issues to the manager.

Leads strategic planning and comprehensive administrative operations for a university biomedical engineering school. Oversees human resources, finance, budgeting, resource allocation, facilities, health and safety, IT, communications, policy, and strategic initiatives. Advises the School Director, manages and develops staff, implements operational improvements, supports faculty recruitment and compensation processes, oversees funding and capital decisions, and represents the School with university faculties, central units, external partners, and stakeholders.

Coordinates community-engaged research, partnership development, grant support, training, knowledge mobilization, advisory activities, and community relations for the Centre for Migration Studies. Builds reciprocal relationships with immigrant-serving organizations, Indigenous partners, researchers, and students; facilitates meetings and events; develops resources and training; supports research protocols and funding proposals; and may supervise assistants and trainees.

Develops and supports enterprise-scale APIs, data integrations, custom applications, and system adapters. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, solution design, programming, testing, documentation, QA, application support, technical consultation, training, and code reviews. The role collaborates with business and technical teams, manages small to medium projects, supports mission-critical systems, and may provide technical leadership to less experienced analysts.

Designs, develops, tests, documents, and supports enterprise-scale data integrations, APIs, system adapters, message flows, and custom applications. Collaborates with analysts, technical leads, developers, vendors, and stakeholders to gather requirements, create technical designs, conduct QA, and implement integration solutions. Provides application support, troubleshooting, training, technical consultation, and guidance to less experienced staff. May coordinate small to medium-sized projects and contribute to API strategy, AI-enabled integrations, and enterprise integration standards.