HUMAN RESOURCES
Responsible for the effective management of people in the organization through the provision of services such as staff recruitment, health and safety, diversity, inclusion and accessibility, employee learning and development, benefit and insurance administration and performance management. ERCA's HR program works within an increasingly complex environment and a need to reflect and respond to changes in legislation, regulation, and business practices and works with management and staff to create and maintain a healthy and supportive culture and build staff morale.
2019 Achievements
- • Recruited and hired two permanent positions Multimedia Specialist and Administrative Associate, Corporate Services and the DRCC Remedial Action Plan Coordinator (Special Grant Employee)
- • Completed Employee Engagement Survey, identified and implemented actions including enhanced internal communications, formalized staff meeting schedules, and re-introduced and empowered internal Green Team
- • Introduced Annual Work Plan/Performance Review and Professional Development standards for all staff and updated several key HR policies and related programs.
2020 Actions
- • Develop a succession planning program to identify, develop and evaluate upcoming organizational needs
- • Continue development of priority Policies and Procedures/Employee Handbook
- • Develoip internship and volunteer program
- • Refine employee/term/SGE onboarding/recruitment
- • Finalize negotiations towards new Collective Agreement
2020 Pressures
- • ERCA will need to replace key positions in the coming years. Succession planning and staff development are challenging with limited resources.
- • Finding talent within a competitive environment
- • Challenge with supporting needed organizational capacity in context of budget pressures and changes in programs and services and funding expectations
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Information Management is responsible for providing and managing secure, reliable and integrated information technology solutions in alignment with our business and strategic goals. ERCA has 40+ years of data and information collected through its programs and projects. This data is an important and valuable resource for ERCA and its University and research partners in helping to understand and address changes and challenges that our region faces.
2019 Achievements
- • Updated Geocortex with 2019 Aerial photography in partnership with County of Essex and municipalities
- • Acquired Lidar-derived DEM from Provincial open data source and corrected its vertical datum to CGVD28:78 to align with ERCA's operational datum.
- • Installed Filehold enterprise-content-management software in preparation of beta-test records scanning.
- • Optimized the new to make it more usable
2020 Actions
- • Beta-test Filehold ECMS with finance records and permanent records of Watershed Management Services
- • Launch an Open Data portal for public access to spatial data holdings.
- • Launch a self-service purpose driven GeoCortex property explorer to aid landowners to determine if their property is subject to ERCA regulations.
- • Additional servers to be migrated and virtualized (includes some server-based software to be upgraded). Other new virtual servers to be created as well.
2020 Pressures
- • There has been a significant increase in provincial, municipal and public expectations for information, analysis tools, and predictive modeling
- • The need for maintaining larger and more complex data holdings for continuing program support and analysis continues to increase
- • As storage space requirements continue to grow, enterprise grade storage solution may be required