Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, the Director of Human Resources manages all human resources (HR) functions and guides organizational culture in order to support the practices of a high-performing organization. Key responsibilities include recruitment, on-boarding, professional development, compensation and benefits, payroll, and legal/policy compliance. The HR Director will establish partnerships with organization leaders to create and maintain a respectful, diverse, and energetic workplace culture. They serve as key advisor to managers on employee relations matters including legal and policy compliance. Our highest priority is a high-performing employee team achieving our goals with integrity and respect for all, especially co-workers.
Essential Functions
- Recruitment
- Actively recruit a diverse candidate pool and manage complete recruitment process to maintain and build a team consistent with organizational mission and skill requirements
- Ensure efficient use of management resources required to support the recruitment process
- On-Boarding/Off-Boarding
- Ensure initial introduction of new staff to organization is productive and welcoming
- Address organization-wide learning requirements and support department-specific learning requirements
- Support building of team focused on mission and culture as well as necessary skills
- Develop and steward off-boarding protocols that effectively and respectfully serve departing employees
- Staff Professional Development
- Ensure staff skills and levels are aligned with needs and available resources of the organization
- Conduct training for all staff and individual coaching, identifying training and professional needs to tailor training accordingly
- Address professional development appropriate for continued progress of staff in their career path
- Manage development of team to support contemplated organization needs and succession planning
- Organizational Culture and Performance
- Partner with senior leaders to define and drive a positive, productive and inclusive workplace culture
- Create a respectful, diverse, energetic workplace culture
- Create and implement programs to enhance engagement, morale, and team building
- Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
- Perform exit interviews
- Conduct and analyze satisfaction/engagement surveys
- Compensation, Benefits and Payroll
- Oversee compensation programs and practices
- Administer job descriptions
- Administer and improve performance management process
- Conduct internal/external salary bench-marking, and pay equity
- Oversee the administration of benefits, benefits renewals, and plan designs
- Negotiate optimal benefits for employees, then negotiate with vendors to achieve the optimal cost for these benefits
- Oversee payroll management and processing
- Ensure Policy and Legal Compliance
- Ensure internal HR policy administration and best practice development
- Oversee unemployment/workers compensation insurance administration
- Ensure the maintenance of personnel files and background check results
- Distribute annual notifications as required
- Maintain Employee Handbook and update, as necessary
- 211 Support
- Provide targeted support for Senior Director of 211
Additional Functions
- Serve as staff lead and liaison to HR Committee of the Board, which advises on organizational HR matters
- Serve on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee to advance equitable human resources practices and improve culture
People Management Responsibilities
Financial/Budgetary Responsibilities