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Job Description Summary
The HR Business Partner (HRBP) will align and execute a division-based HR strategy for staff in the Provost’s Office and administrative departments, working as part of the larger HR organization at WFU. The role will provide leadership, guidance, and resources for all staff HR-related activities, including talent acquisition, development, management, and engagement. Responsibilities include oversight of hiring and onboarding activities, training programs, performance management, compensation and employee relations consultation. Retention and succession planning are also integral to this role and should be incorporated over a reasonable timeframe. The position will report to the Executive Director for Recruitment and Solutions and, through a dotted line relationship, to the Provost, and will function as an Institutional Talent Partner, representing the Provost’s Office.
This individual will serve as the key strategy collaborator with administrative leaders in the Provost’s Office and will be a member of the Provost’s leadership team. The HRBP will provide supervision for the Director of Talent Management. By fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, the HRBP will play a pivotal role in strategically shaping the division’s staff workforce to achieve its ambitious goals and contribute to the university’s overall success.
To carry out these responsibilities, this person must be proactive, a strategic thinker, understand the critical importance of change management and program delivery, successfully balance competing needs, and align recommendations and actions with the short and long-term strategies of the University and the Provost’s Office.
Success in this position will rely on awareness of the culture and environment of the Provost’s Office, Wake Forest University, and Human Resources. This will be enabled by developing strong relationships across campus and fostering respectful communications and collaborations within a diverse community. Given the unique reporting relationship, this person must manage potentially conflicting interests, possess strong organizational and communication skills, plan and schedule individual work and team work, set priorities, and manage multiple projects and deadlines.
Job Description
Essential Functions:
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
Additional Job Description
Time Type Requirement
Full time Note to Applicant:
This position profile identifies the key responsibilities and expectations for performance. It cannot encompass all specific job tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform job-related duties as may be reasonably assigned by his/her supervisor.
In order to provide a safe and productive learning and living community, Wake Forest University conducts background investigations and drug screens for all final staff candidates being considered for employment.
Equal Opportunity Statement
The University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified candidates to apply without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, disability and military or veteran status.
Accommodations for Applicants
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Job Description Summary
The HR Business Partner (HRBP) will align and execute a division-based HR strategy for staff in the Provost’s Office and administrative departments, working as part of the larger HR organization at WFU. The role will provide leadership, guidance, and resources for all staff HR-related activities, including talent acquisition, development, management, and engagement. Responsibilities include oversight of hiring and onboarding activities, training programs, performance management, compensation and employee relations consultation. Retention and succession planning are also integral to this role and should be incorporated over a reasonable timeframe. The position will report to the Executive Director for Recruitment and Solutions and, through a dotted line relationship, to the Provost, and will function as an Institutional Talent Partner, representing the Provost’s Office.
This individual will serve as the key strategy collaborator with administrative leaders in the Provost’s Office and will be a member of the Provost’s leadership team. The HRBP will provide supervision for the Director of Talent Management. By fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation, the HRBP will play a pivotal role in strategically shaping the division’s staff workforce to achieve its ambitious goals and contribute to the university’s overall success.
To carry out these responsibilities, this person must be proactive, a strategic thinker, understand the critical importance of change management and program delivery, successfully balance competing needs, and align recommendations and actions with the short and long-term strategies of the University and the Provost’s Office.
Success in this position will rely on awareness of the culture and environment of the Provost’s Office, Wake Forest University, and Human Resources. This will be enabled by developing strong relationships across campus and fostering respectful communications and collaborations within a diverse community. Given the unique reporting relationship, this person must manage potentially conflicting interests, possess strong organizational and communication skills, plan and schedule individual work and team work, set priorities, and manage multiple projects and deadlines.
Job Description
Essential Functions:
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
- Serve as the division’s initial HR point of contact for
employee relations matters, providing strategic consultation and
partnering with HR-Employee Relations on all employee relations
matters.
- Provide consultative guidance and advice to administrative
leaders and managers on staff employee matters, ensuring alignment
with institutional policies and practices established by
HR-Employee Relations.
- Develop processes within the division to support the consistent
application of approaches and standards established by HR-Employee
Relations. Participate in case management meetings with HR-Employee
Relations, assist with relevant documentation, identify trends, and
promptly escalate complex or high-risk matters to the Director of
Employee Relations.
- Conduct initial intake with departmental leaders regarding
employee concerns. When a matter may require a workplace
investigation, consult and coordinate with the Director of Employee
Relations and HR-Employee Relations before initiating investigative
activity and throughout the investigation process.
- Collaborate with HR-Employee Relations and Provost’s Office
leaders regarding employee separations, including transition and
succession planning. Analyze separation data to identify trends and
escalate recurring concerns to Provost’s Office leadership and
HR-Employee Relations.
- In partnership with the Recruiter for the Provost’s Office,
develop and lead the execution of a comprehensive talent
acquisition and retention program that effectively attracts and
retains a talented workforce to drive the Provost’s Office core
mission.
- Conduct analysis to fully understand position requirements of
jobs within the division and assist hiring managers in developing
position descriptions.
- Develop and drive recruitment strategies for individual
positions, or groups of positions, to source highly talented
potential employees.
- Serve in Workday as a Talent Liaison in order to provide
support to the Director of Talent Management and primary Talent
Liaison as needed.
- Assess onboarding of staff across Provost’s Office
administrative units and assist with addressing any gaps related to
tools/resources.
- Provide support consistent with the Provost’s Office Recruiter
guidance for divisional recruitment and selection processes,
ensuring consistent candidate communications, efficient processing,
policy, and legal compliance.
- Assist in negotiating/extending job offers, provide
compensation support, and partner with the HR-Employment Solutions
team to organize the execution of effective onboarding of
employees.
- Work with all Provost’s Office senior administrative leadership
team to develop an understanding for the long-term staffing needs
of the division.
- Responsible for assessing, improving/creating, and promoting
targeted employee learning and development programs, leveraging and
aligning with programs offered by the university.
- Align individual and team development programs to support
long-term organizational strategies.
- Develop, deliver and procure training and development to
support objectives.
- Guide managers on developing career development and growth
opportunities for employees.
- In collaboration with all members of the Provost’s leadership
team, lead in the design and execution of individual and team
development and succession plans that build resiliency in the
workforce.
- Develop and deliver a comprehensive talent management program
that includes performance assessment, employee feedback,
performance improvement, pay for performance, and formal
disciplinary programs.
- Lead and facilitate, in partnership with HR-Employee Relations,
performance management processes across administrative areas in the
division for all levels of staff employees.
- Once implemented, maintain a market-based staff salary
structure for the Provost’s Office in consultation with
HR-Compensation and Provost’s Office senior leadership. Monitor
consistency of promotion/pay decisions.
- Partner with the Provost’s administrative leadership team and
serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner for organizational
redesigns within the Provost’s Office.
- Collaborate closely with the AVPABA to ensure that hiring plans
and HR actions fit within the scope of the budget for the
division.
- Develop and manage fiscal resources necessary to meet HR
program requirements within the division.
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of related
experience in human resources.
- Recent progressive and consultative HR experience in a complex
organization with diverse departmental cultures, geographies, and
operating environments, including experience providing
forward-facing strategic recommendations, working with executive
leadership, and influencing and managing people and projects in
direct and indirect supervisory roles.
- Increasing levels of responsibility to include a broad HR
generalist background with experience in multiple disciplines such
as talent acquisition, talent management, talent development,
performance management, compensation, and more.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
with quickly shifting priorities.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to maintain discretion and the highest ethical and
professional standards while dealing with confidential
information.
- Management-level experience delivering HR services.
- Master’s degree in a related field.
- Related HR certifications such as PHR, SPHR, or SHRP-CP.
- Significant and increasing levels of HR responsibility within
higher education.
- Experience with Workday HCM.
- Responsible for one direct report.
- Work primarily involves sitting/standing, communicating with
others to exchange information, operating a computer, and assessing
the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work
assigned.
- Subject to inside environmental conditions. Not typically
exposed to adverse environmental conditions.
Additional Job Description
Time Type Requirement
Full time Note to Applicant:
This position profile identifies the key responsibilities and expectations for performance. It cannot encompass all specific job tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform job-related duties as may be reasonably assigned by his/her supervisor.
In order to provide a safe and productive learning and living community, Wake Forest University conducts background investigations and drug screens for all final staff candidates being considered for employment.
Equal Opportunity Statement
The University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified candidates to apply without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, disability and military or veteran status.
Accommodations for Applicants
If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, please contact AskHR@wfu.edu or (336) 758-4700.
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