Head of People

Are you an organized, enterprising, and trustworthy individual? Do you love working with others to help them reach their full potential? Do you have a passion for HR and organizational development?

This position allows for an opportunity to participate in a challenging, yet rewarding working environment. We are looking for a forward-thinking human resource professional with exceptional problem-solving and communication skills to help our firm take its next steps toward growth.

Responsibilities:

• Employee Relations: Handle conflict resolution, reasonable accommodation, discipline, termination, and investigation of employees in accordance with company policy.
• Legal Compliance: Maintain compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance.
• Cultural Champion: Be a champion and role model of our culture, helping the team understand and live our core values through effective programs that promote morale while achieving our company goals. Maintain a pulse on the mood of the organization and act as a connection point between leadership and team members.
• Talent Acquisition: Handle interviewing, hiring, and onboarding new team members.
• Accountability: Establish systems and practices that promote collaboration, performance, and accountability. Provide constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Coaching: Coach leaders and managers on building a human system, including how to best develop their team members and how to have difficult conversations.
• Organizational Development: Creating and updating organizational structures to better enable organizational strategy, including setting a total rewards philosophy and establishing compensation and benefits approaches that fit within it, and creating policies, guides, and/or philosophies to document practices in a way that aligns with internal culture.
• Learning & Development: Develop and execute all learning and development initiatives and help drive a high-performance, high-growth mindset that focuses on career development and growth.
• Workplace Operations: oversee the building management, workplace, safety & security team to ensure that employees are provided a healthy and conducive working environment.
• Continuous Growth: Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law in order to plan, develop and implement HR continuous improvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and delegate them when appropriate.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Thorough knowledge of employment-related laws and regulations and HR procedures.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Basic technical/computer skills.
• Proficiency with or the ability to quickly learn the organization’s HRIS and talent management system.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field required.
• A minimum of three years of human resource management experience required.
• SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP highly desired.

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