Job Description

Overview

Are you passionate about understanding and supporting the end user experience? Do you want to apply your background in research and cognitive or behavioural psychology to help team members from across WorkSafeBC understand the perspectives, needs, and experiences of our stakeholders? Our Experience, Marketing and Insights team is looking for a Senior Experience Specialist to enable experience design that makes a difference to those we serve.

In this role, you\xe2\x80\x99ll lead and execute initiatives that maximize market and behavioural research and leverage business knowledge to help us understand the needs and perceptions of injured workers, their employers, as well as health care and service providers in B.C. This strategic role is critical in creating positive experiences that will result in optimal interactions, support, and service for our stakeholders.

How you\xe2\x80\x99ll make a difference: You\xe2\x80\x99ll build the understanding and trust that helps WorkSafeBC serve people across B.C.

Where you\xe2\x80\x99ll work

At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines the convenience of working remotely with the dynamism of working in one of our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.

In this role, you\xe2\x80\x99ll work primarily from your B.C. home and occasionally in our Richmond office. Relocation assistance may be available.

What you\'ll do

• Lead and manage experience initiatives, including identifying research needs, planning and implementing primary and secondary qualitative and quantitative research, evaluation of progress towards strategic objectives, presentation of research findings and recommendations, facilitate decision-making discussions and implement changes to improve stakeholder experiences
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external providers while providing leadership, expertise, and recommendations on the application of the experience framework and experiences to drive business improvements and change
• Analyze and synthesize data, identify opportunities to tell compelling stakeholder experience stories, and identify new opportunities to improve or create new experiences
• Anticipate stakeholder needs and promote collaboration across departments and units
• Lead and facilitate discussions and evidence-based decision making regarding the impacts and implications of insights for Experience initiatives

Is this a good fit for you?

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for someone who can:

• Think and act strategically to identify creative and innovative approaches, ideas, and solutions, while also recognizing the importance of the details
• Design, conduct, and analyze market research data to derive key insights to inform experience strategies
• Deliver a client-focused, can-do, quality-service-oriented approach in providing service to internal and external clients
• Utilize an innovative, forward-thinking mindset and an agile approach to problem solving
• Present and convey information effectively and persuasively to internal clients at all levels of the organization and influence others to achieve objectives
• Build effective relationships while working in cross-functional teams

Your background and experience

• A master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Market Research, Psychology, Behavioural Science/Insights, Cognitive Science, or another Social Science, or similarly related field
• A minimum of eight years of experience conducting market and/or UX research, of which four years being involved in (re-)designing experiences (e.g., products, programs, services, systems, processes) based on research

We\xe2\x80\x99ll consider equivalent combinations of education and experience.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Consent to a criminal record check
• Confirm you\xe2\x80\x99re legally entitled to work in Canada

WorkSafeBC\xe2\x80\x99s COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy (the \xe2\x80\x9cPolicy\xe2\x80\x9d) is suspended effective January 9, 2023, however we reserve the right to re- implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

Who we are

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We\xe2\x80\x99re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What\xe2\x80\x99s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?

It\xe2\x80\x99s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflects the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

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Our benefits

As a member of our team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work \xe2\x80\x94 and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
• Optional leave arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

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Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately, however must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments prior to the closing date.
• We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email

when you submit your application.

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