When you join the CRD, you join a community. We invite you to learn more about us and how we can work together.
We Care about your Health and Safety
We value a workplace that's safe and secure. As an organization, this means designing, implementing, and managing our work to promote healthy and safe working conditions and attitudes as integral to everything we do.
The CRD is proud to participate in the Certificate of Recognition (COR) Program. Employers receive COR certification when they implement an occupational health and safety management system that has successfully passed an external audit and met WorkSafeBC's standards. As an employer, the CRD received COR certification in 2021 in recognition of our efforts to proactively improve workplace safety and our commitment to going above and beyond what is legally required.
Our commitment also includes a comprehensive safety plan to mitigate the spread of communicable diseases such as COVID-19, and to ensure safety is part of our corporate culture.
Compensation & Benefits
In addition to fair pay, working at the CRD comes with many benefits, including:
- Comprehensive extended health and dental coverage for you and your family through Pacific Blue Cross.
- Flexible work models including:
- Hybrid work-from-home arrangement that combines remote and in-office work for more flexibility.
- Earned Time Off where you can work extra hours and use them later as paid time off.
- Compressed work weeks (four 10-hour days per week) for many work units where remote work is not possible.
- Personal arrangements like flexible start and end times, job-sharing, or phased retirement
- Deferred Salary Leave to help your fund a future leave of absence of up to one year.
- Annual paid time off for vacation (starting at 3 weeks), sick leave, and as paid time to attend to personal, emergency, and family matters.
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan ensuring reliable retirement income for you and your loved ones.
- Maternity leave top-up for new mothers.
- Free access to the Employee and Family Assistance Program for help with personal issues like finances, relationships, or health.
- Reimbursement of professional membership fees.
- Ongoing training and professional development.
- Annual student bursary program to support the children of CRD employees with their post-secondary journey.
- Long-term disability and life insurance for financial protection during difficult times.
*Benefits packages vary based on employment type and union status. For full details on CRD's compensation package, please contact Human Resources.
A Great Place to Live
Working for the CRD means living in a region known for its beauty, climate, recreational activities and lifestyle. Southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands offer spectacular experiences from beachcombing at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, to walking among old growth rainforests, or taking part in a vibrant arts and culture scene. Our region is a great place to live, work, play and create year-round.
For more information about the region visit, Tourism Victoria, Gulf Island Tourism, Sooke & Port Renfrew Tourism and Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Tourism
Employee Giving
We are proud of the many ways our employees contribute to our communities inside and outside of work. Our employees are actively involved in workplace fundraising campaigns to support organizations such as the United Way, BC Children's Hospital Foundation, Our Place, and the Mustard Seed.
Together, we've raised over $1 million to help those in need, earning us the Thanks A Million Award from the United Way. Both the CRD and our employees are proud supporters of the United Way campaign.We are proud and thankful for the contributions our staff have made to show their care for the community.
Award-Winning Team
We are actively working at the community level and as an employer. We have been recognized with a variety of awards over the years for our employment programs, the work we do, as well as our environmental leadership as an organization.
These are just some of the awards we have received in recognition of our commitment to an outstanding workplace and service excellence:
- Canada's Greenest Employer Award
- COR Safety Certificate of Recognition
- BC Municipal Safety Association Awards
- United Way of Greater Victoria "Thanks a Million" Award (CRD and CUPE 1978)
- Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators - Professional Development Award for the CRD's Organizational Development Plan
- Planning Institute of BC - Gold Award for Excellence in Planning Practice (City and Urban Areas) for the CRD's People Power initiative
- BC Water & Waste Association - Outstanding Contribution for a Group or Organization Award
- North American Occupational Safety and Health Week Team Champions Award
- Government Finance Officers Association of BC - Financial Innovation Award for the Capital Regional Hospital District's Summit at Quadra Village project
- Government Finance Officers Association of US & Canada "Triple Crown" (Excellence in Financial Reporting, Popular Annual Financial Reporting, and Distinguished Budget Presentation awards)
