Kelsey Baker, Cphr Email and Phone Number

The Nova Scotia Education Common Services Bureau (NSECSB) provides a variety of services to support Nova Scotia’s public education system. Responsible for providing a wide range of compensation/classification services for non-unionized employees of NS Education Entities to ensure consistent and equitable compensation practices province-wide.

Consults, collaborates, and provides advice on organizational and job design and classifies jobs ensuring alignment with department business objectives, effective organization and classification of positions and corporate consistency.Leads and participates in projects to streamline processes, maintains classification systems and job families and builds knowledge, capacity and expertise with partners, clients, and colleagues. Provides advice and testimony on classification related disputes at hearings and tribunals.

Provides leadership and expertise for human resources functions in the areas of recruitment, selection, compensation and benefits, attendance management, employee training and development, performance management and evaluation, workforce planning, and participates in employee and labour relations activities in order to ensure provision of a fully developed, engaged and utilized work force. Serves as a resource to all departments on various human resource functions, ensures employee-related matters are monitored and addressed within a proactive environment, and is fully conversant with the HPA pension and Insurance plans as well as payroll and attendance functions in order to provide for effective administration of employee benefits.

Participates in the planning of a variety of human resource functions and is responsible for co-ordinating activities in the areas of recruitment, selection, pay and benefits, employee training, development and evaluation; and participates in labour relations activities in order to ensure provision of a fully developed and utilized work force.

• Maintain electronic personnel records using ADP’s People@Work database. Includes: inputting weekly absences for all staff, updating employee’s training records and creating various reports as needed• Look after HPA’s Recognition Awards Program and HPA’s Post-Secondary Scholarship Program • Participate in summer student interviews as well as update and make Orientation Manuals for new hires, including internal telephone lists and organizational charts• Complete Worker’s Compensation Board forms for injured employees• Organize employee training programs and events such as retirement parties, employee sessions, employee luncheons and student orientations• Help to prepare employee strategic staffing documents and yearly Access to Information and Privacy reports• Collect and distribute internal mail daily as well as complete purchase orders and office memos as required• Assist HR department, Office Services Coordinator, and Safety Coordinator with various projects and assignments

As a senior student, I supported and provided assistance to a group of six students who were transitioning from high school to university as part of the LEAP program on campus at Saint Mary’s. This role involved mentoring first year students to become successful university students, attending weekly workshops and engaging with a community of students, and working closely with other peer mentors to plan events/activities for the students.

As an experienced coach, I assisted and guided fourth year students as they were working with their assigned groups of first year students. This was accomplished by keeping continuous contact with the students and helping them to overcome any challenges imposed on them while working with their first year students. I also marked coaching summaries written by the fourth year students as part of their course grade.

As a coach/mentor, I assisted first year Commerce students as part of the Management Coaching Practicum at Saint Mary’s University. This involved interacting and encouraging first year students in both their academic and personal lives to become more self-managing and to succeed in university. The most important part was being a go to person to answer questions and a friendly face to connect with.