Job Details

OVERALL JOB PURPOSE:

The Vice President of Human Resources (HR) provides executive-level leadership and guidance to the organization's HR operations. The Vice President is responsible for setting, enforcing, and evaluating legally compliant human resources policies, procedures, and best practices, and identifying and implementing long-range strategic talent management goals.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Personnel Management (20%):

· Partner with Executive Leadership to develop and maintain the organizational structure and design aligned with our strategy

· Use proactive data/analytics and industry best practices to understand and recommend employee practices to Executive Leadership team that promote employee engagement, retention, and satisfaction

· Oversee and approve all employee policy changes within the Employee Handbook

· Maintain vision and alignment with culture in recruiting and interview strategy ensuring we the right person for each role

· Create staffing structure solutions to meet the needs of the organization and align with the overall staffing budget.

· Act as advisor to Executive Leadership team to ensure compliance with all Federal, State, and Local employment laws and practices

· Set directional strategy for annual performance management process

· Serve as trusted advisor for leaders

· Support and coach leaders and team members across the organization based on their developmental needs

· Partner with leaders in determining the most appropriate course of action including changing assignments and corrective discipline

· Oversee Staff Benevolence or other staff-related requests

2. Define Job Expectations, Goals and Effective Salary and Benefit Administration (20%):

· Set strategic direction for total compensation packages that ensure fairness and competitiveness

· Oversee and participate in the leveling process for all new/updated roles

· Assure adequate backups exist for critical systems, such as payroll and benefits administration

· Partner with CEO/COO in benefit selection: oversee administration of benefits

· Set overall HR vision and strategy aligned to the mission of the organization that builds and maintains a strong and culturally healthy workplace

· Drive vision for overall HR systems to encompass HR management, compensation management, employee relations and performance management, talent and change management and structure.

· Create scalable programs that develop both our people and organization

· Provide directional leadership, consistent employee feedback, weekly communication, and development opportunities to the HR team

3. Licensing and Accreditation (20%):

· Ensure that all personnel related issues meet standards for licensing and accreditation agencies.

· Coordinate SLED and Child Abuse background registry checks and ensure compliance with standards.

· Ensure that all employee training and medical requirements are up to date on an annual basis.

4. Training and Reimbursements (15%):

· Lead training task force to ensure training needs are documented to licensing, contracting, and accreditation standards

· Motivate staff to expand training opportunities

5. Staffing (15%):

· Monitor staff turnover and develop a plan to improve staff recruitment and retention.

· Create staffing structure solutions to meet the needs of the organization and align with the overall staffing budget.

6. Standards for Excellence, Teamwork, Cultural Change and Diversity (10%):

· Inspire employees to improve performance quality, teamwork and competency building.

· Set overall HR vision and strategy aligned to the mission of the organization that builds and maintains a strong and culturally healthy workplace

· Partner with Executive Leadership to create annual goals toward thriving culture

Contacts:

Internally - VP of Human Resources will interact with all levels of management throughout the agency and all line staff. The VP will also interact directly with Board and Personnel Committee members.

Externally - All management levels outside of the agency in daily communications regarding, the 401(K) plan, Workman's Compensation and other employee benefit and staffing issues.

Decision Making Authority: The VP of Human Resources, in conjunction with the Leadership Team, participates in the decision-making process with the CEO and COO regarding policies and procedures that affect the entire agency. On an individual basis, the VP of Human Resources must make decisions regarding the operations of the HR office on a daily basis to ensure that the department meets the needs of employees, management, the HR Committee and the Board.

Major Challenges:

1. Accomplishing the goals and objectives of the position with limited resources.

2. Because personnel related issues of the agency are so great, must have expertise in many areas and be able to manage multiple challenges concurrently.

3. Keeping paperwork on employees current to meet licensing requirements on an annual basis.

4. Creating new databases to meet government reporting requirements for such areas as Affirmative Action and Workman's Compensation reporting and internal program requirements for personnel, training and medical information ensuring compliance.

5. Assisting in all programs, agency-wide, to ensure the successful change in the agency's culture.

Functional Knowledge: This is a senior level position.

Education and Specific Training: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or a related field with SHRM certification preferred.

Experience: At least 10 years of HR related experience at the managerial level, including supervision is preferred.

Responsibility Level: Assignments are received in objective-oriented terms. Works to meet the organizations' objectives and schedules.

Supervisory Responsibility: This position supervises the HR Department.