Serve a specific client base as HR Partner:
- Specific responsibilities are dependent upon the needs of the client(s). Provide customer support in the full-range of human resources arena including but not limited to recruitment, classification, compensation, corrective and disciplinary action, training and development, labor relations, interpretation and application of laws, rules, policies and procedures, appeals, grievances or unemployment hearings, performance development plans, program or policy development, career counseling, organizational analysis or development, employee recognition or other functions relating to human resource management.
Technical Expert:
- Apply expertise in the full range of HR arena to support CWU's mission and business needs.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal and administrative requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Use surveys and other tools to provide information to help create an effective and efficient work environment.
- Adapt information technology to HR management.
Employee Champion:
- Develop the talent of others to maximize potential.
- Mentor individuals to develop talent.
- Assess and balance competing values (for example, policies and mission).
- Build trust relationships.
- Employer Representative:
-Provide interpretation and application information regarding Federal, State, and University compliance requirements to managers and supervisors thus ensuring institutional conformance to established standards.
- Serve as a consultant to administration on Human Resource related issues.
- Apply expertise in the full range of HR arena to serve as CWU representative for hearing, grievances, etc.
Strategic Partner:
- Interact with customers in a way that demonstrates customer concerns and problems are heard, builds confident and trust.
- Link HR policies and programs to CWU's mission and HR's vision for service.
- Apply organizational development principles.
- Adapt HR services to organizational culture.
- Design and/or carry out HR services that incorporate business system applications.
- Use HR principles that change business processes to improve its efficiency and effectiveness.
- Use consensus and coalition building skills to improve overall communication.
Change Consultant:
- Assess the readiness for change and identify appropriate change strategies.
- Design and implement change processes.
- Apply innovative strategies; identify and recommend solutions to various HR issues.
- Uses consensus, consultation, and negotiation skills; Influence others to act.
- Practice and promote integrity and ethical behavior.
- Collaborate and work in teams.
- Communicate effectively.
Lead Employee Services unit, which includes HR Partners:
- Create a sustainable work environment of mutual respect that attracts and maintains a motivated, skilled and effective team and enables them individually and collectively to achieve excellence.
- Supervise team including hiring, establishing standards for, and evaluating, performance, taking corrective action, training, assigning and scheduling work, and acting upon leave requests.
- Adjust leadership style as needed to achieve results.
- Recommend and/or provide staff with professional and personal growth with emphasis on opportunities, where possible, for individuals.
- Actively engage in recruitment and hiring new employees, when needed.
- Clearly define performance expectations, ensure accountability, and provides ongoing informal feedback, coaching, and mentoring. Conducts formal performance evaluations.
- Ensure employees have necessary resources.
- Oversee and direct the work of staff; serve as mentor, coach and leader, and resolve complaints or issues.
- Develop and foster supportive working relationships, motivation and engagement.
- Communicate information to staff on an ongoing basis to influence staff engagement and to be a part of a larger community.
- Take corrective action in a timely manner.
- Recognize and reward employees for good performance.
- Schedule employee work hours/shifts; monitor hours worked; approve payable time and absence requests.
- Recognize value of and promotes diverse workforce.
- Perform other duties as assigned.