By Breeonne Baxter on March 2, 2018
UBC has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in 2018. These awards recognize Canadian companies that stand out through their efforts to create inclusive and respectful workplaces.
Here are a few reasons why UBC was selected as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers:
- UBC offers an Equity Enhancement Fund to support community-based initiatives that enhance equity, diversity, inclusion and cultural understanding at the university.
- UBC maintains gender inclusive washrooms on campus and manages the Beyond the Binary project to address gaps in awareness and inclusion of trans and gender diverse individuals through staff and faculty training — topics include trans accommodation needs, respectful language and pronoun usage — UBC also offers Speak-Up! workshops for employees to learn how to use inclusive language and how to interrupt discriminatory practices.
- UBC recently established the President’s Working Committee on Disability Culture, Art and Equity, which has a mandate to identify barriers and seek ways of removing, develop strategies for raising awareness of disability among UBC community and beyond, support learning and research in this area, encourage development of cultural and artistic expression by people with disabilities, and solicit proposals for cultural projects, and explore ways of raising funds in support of such project — the committee aims to seek creative understanding of disabilities and seek to ask, what can be learned by persons with disabilities.
Read more about BC’s Top Employers Awards at http://www.canadastop100.com/diversity
Would you like to learn more how to improve and positively impact the climate for sexual and gender diversity? Staff, faculty and students in the UBC community can take part in Positive Space workshops at the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.
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By Melissa Baluk on February 22, 2018
UBC is recognized as one of BC’s Top Employers in 2018. This designation highlights employers in British Columbia that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work and supporting their employees with the most progressive and forward-thinking programs.
Some of the reasons that UBC was selected as one of BC’s Top Employers this year:
- UBC employees enjoy working at Canada’s most beautiful campuses, and are encouraged to keep fit with subsidized memberships to the state-of-the-art onsite fitness facility that includes instructor-led classes, swimming, skating, tennis and even rock climbing.
- UBC provides its new moms and dads with maternity leave and parental leave top-up payments (varying by position); and faculty, staff and students can take advantage of on-campus daycare centres, which have over 600 spaces for children.
- UBC helps its employees prepare for the longer term with retirement planning assistance, phased-in work options for those nearing retirement, and generous contributions to a defined benefit or contribution pension plan.
Read more about BC’s Top Employers Awards at http://www.canadastop100.com/bc/.
Looking to join UBC? Check out our career listings at http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers/.
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By Breeonne Baxter on February 20, 2018
The results are in! Together with our survey partner, TalentMap, Human Resources presented the survey results at open sessions in Vancouver (February 7) and the Okanagan (February 8).
The overall results for faculty and staff are available here (PDF). The report, as presented during the WES Results Open Sessions, includes:
- About the Workplace Experiences Survey
- Engagement & Survey Approach
- Workplace Experiences Survey Trends
- Overall Results Highlights
- Faculty Engagement –Key Drivers
- Staff Engagement –Key Drivers
- Next Steps –Your Role
Download the overall WES highlights as a one-page infographic.
Before the end of February, all eligible units (those with ten or more survey respondents) will receive unit-level reports.
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By Melissa Baluk on February 9, 2018
UBC has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2018, the only post-secondary institution to receive this designation. This special designation recognizes the employers that offer the nation’s best workplaces and programs for young people starting their careers.
This is the sixth consecutive year that UBC has received this award. Some of the services that UBC offers to support young employees:
Young employees and employees who are new to the workplace can take part in many UBC programs and initiatives to help welcome them to the community and grow in their careers.
UBC employees can access career navigation services, professional development funding and tuition waivers. As part of the university community, faculty and staff are encouraged to take part in workplace wellbeing initiatives, and access the athletics and recreation facilities at our Vancouver and Okanagan campuses as well as UBC’s many attractions.
Read more about Canada’s Top Employers awards at http://www.canadastop100.com/young_people/
Looking to join UBC? Check out our career listings at http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers/.
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By Breeonne Baxter on February 5, 2018
We all know UBC staff who make outstanding contributions to the university community. We invite you to recognize them and their achievements by nominating them for the 2018 President’s Service Award for Excellence and President’s Staff Awards (Vancouver campus).
Download the nomination package at https://focusonpeople.ubc.ca/awards/presidents-awards-for-staff/. The nomination deadline is 4 pm, Friday, March 16, 2018.
President’s Service Awards for Excellence
This award is open to all UBC staff with 10 or more years of service. Up to five recipients are selected each year.
The awards are presented during Graduation ceremonies, and each recipient receives a medal and $5,000.
President’s Staff Awards (Vancouver campus)
Open to all staff at the Vancouver campus with three or more years of service, the President’s Staff Awards recognize contributions in the following categories:
- Leadership
- Creativity and Innovation
- Enhancing the UBC Experience (individuals or groups may be nominated)
- Community Engagement
- Emerging Leadership
- Advancing Diversity and Inclusion (individuals or groups may be nominated)
- Wellbeing (individuals or groups may be nominated) (new in 2018)
Up to 14 recipients are selected each year (two awards per category), and each recipient receives $2,000.
Note: UBC staff who work at remote sites such as the Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, the Dairy Education and Research Centre, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Robson Square, and hospital sites in the Vancouver Fraser, Northern, and Island medical programs are considered part of the Vancouver campus. UBC staff who are part of the Southern Medical Program are considered part of the Okanagan campus.
Staff Awards at the Okanagan campus
For information about Staff Awards at the Okanagan campus, visit the Okanagan Human Resources website.
Please visit https://focusonpeople.ubc.ca/awards/presidents-awards-for-staff/ for more information and to read past recipient profiles.
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