Essential Duties and Responsibilities:<br>• Partner with the leadership team to formulate, develop, implement and evaluate management strategies to achieve the organization’s vision, mission and goals.<br>• Champion the organization’s mission, vision, and strategic priorities, actively participating in the organization’s strategic planning process.<br>• Identify ways to increase staff retention and productivity, engage leadership in succession planning, including strategies to enhance employee engagement, leadership and staff development, regular feedback and coaching, career pathing, that promotes as an employer of choice.<br>• Lead the effective and efficient administration of the performance management process, making sure that the organization’s managers are equipped to engage in constructive and ongoing feedback and coaching.<br>• Mitigate legal risk to the organization through proactive training and education, clear systems and processes for managing conflicts with and between employees, handling and investigating complaints of harassment/discrimination and other unjust practice allegations.<br>• Ensure organizational compliance with relevant HR laws and regulations at the local, state, and national levels including but not limited to educating and advising managers and senior leaders on HR-related legal and regulatory matters and ensuring HR programs, practices and policies are aligned.<br>• Ensure employer offers competitive compensation and benefit package to attract and retain staff. Partner with leadership to regularly review compensation and benefits data in accordance with applicable policy, monitor pay practices and manage benefit enrollment process, leave administration and the payroll function.<br>• Partner with other teams to design and implement a strategy to optimize and integrate HR technology, enabling managers and employees to easily perform people-related transactions (e.g., benefits enrollment), facilitate delivery of effective HR services, securely store employee data, and support people-related decisions.<br>• Oversee the HR functions (hiring, disciplinary measures, promotions, terminations, etc.) and compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) guidelines.<br>• Partner with the leadership team in negotiating the union contract; research materials related to proposed items for negotiation. Act as the facilitator for union/management meetings or business.<br>• Oversee the management of HR contracts.<br>• Actively participate in the organization’s budget process. Prepare and execute department budget. Monitor and approve expenditure of related funds.<br>Perform other duties as assigned.
