HR Partner | Employee Relations

HR Partner | Employee Relations

Company: Beacon College

Job Location:

Category: Human Resources

Type: Full-Time

Job Title: HR Partner | Employee Relations

Location: Beacon College
Leesburg, FL

Department: Human Resources

Supervisor Title: Executive Director

Division: Human Resources

FLSA Classification: Exempt Salary

Salary Range: TBD

Position Type: Professional

JOB SUMMARY:

The HR Partner | Employee Relations role is responsible for building strong, collaborative partnerships across the college to deliver value-added human resources support to division leadership and employees. This position provides strategic guidance on talent development, recruitment, and workforce planning. As the Employee Relations lead, the role manages and resolves employee relations matters, conducts workplace investigations, ensures compliance with state and federal employment laws, and provides expert guidance on complex employee issues, all while fostering a positive, respectful, and compliant work environment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND TASKS:

HR Partner

• Responsible for recruitment, hiring, employee job changes, onboarding, and offboarding for an assigned client list. Partners with other HR team members to ensure consistent, high-quality support across all divisions.
• Collaborate with department managers to identify staffing needs and develop accurate, detailed job descriptions and hiring criteria.
• Evaluate and implement effective recruiting methods and strategies based on position requirements, industry best practices, and organizational needs to attract high quality candidates
• Coordinate and guide hiring managers through the Paycor recruitment, interview, selection, and offer processes.
• Train and support hiring managers on interview techniques, compliance, and hiring procedures.

Employee Relations

• As lead for employee relations; support supervisors and managers in addressing performance issues and improving employee productivity.
• Provide guidance, training sessions, recommendations, and support on employee relations matters, including disciplinary actions, investigations, terminations, and compliance with employment laws and policies.
• Collect, track, and report on employee relations data, ensuring the accurate and confidential maintenance of records related to investigations, concerns, and issue resolution.
• Manage the annual performance review process.
• Manage ADA Accommodation process.
• Coordinate and conduct exit interviews and manage the employee off-boarding processes.

General Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the HR team to develop and implement initiatives that enhance employee engagement, retention, and workplace culture.
• Participate in the development of departmental goals, objectives, and systems.
• Learn and support day-to-day HR operations, providing backup assistance to team members as needed.
• All other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Experience: 2+ years of related experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience working in a higher education environment.
• Experience working in the Paycor system
• PHR or SHRM certification
• Experience with Title IX policy and procedures

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Excellent communication, decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft-based applications.
• Strong service orientation with a demonstrated ability to effectively meet the needs of and work collaboratively with a diverse population of students, staff, and faculty.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to coach/advise employees and management through sensitive HR issues to resolve conflict and seek workable solutions
• Ability to create and implement sourcing strategies for recruitment for a variety of roles.
• Proactive and independent with the ability to take initiative.
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Familiarity with laws, regulations, and best practices applicable to hiring and recruitment.

ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are a representation of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The term "qualified individual with a disability" means an individual with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation(s), can perform the essential functions of this position.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate professionally in person, over the telephone, through email and other electronic means, move about the office and college, handle various types of media and equipment, and visually or otherwise identify, observe and assess. The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 10 pounds unless otherwise specified in the job description.

NOTICE:

The intent of this job description is to provide a representation of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Beacon College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity as a critical step in ensuring employee, student and graduate success.

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