Job Title: Executive Director of Human Resources Wage/Hour Status: Exempt
Reports to: Chief Human Capital Officer Pay Grade: Admin Pay 10
Dept. /School: Central Administration Office Days: 227
Supervises: All Staff Within Human Resources
Primary Purpose: Provide leadership, direction, and guidance for the strategic initiatives and day-to-day operations of the Human Capital division. Leads the overall mission to fund, select, strategically deploy, and retain great talent for all positions in the organization in order to meet the district’s mission of improved student learning and achievement. Develops and implements strategic goals in recruitment, selection, induction, deployment, performance management, professional development, and retention for all employees with a strong focus on teacher and principal effectiveness. Recommends and implements legally sound and effective human resource management programs, policies, and practices. Responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of human resource programs to include professional and auxiliary staffing, wage and salary administration, leave administration, performance appraisal, employee relations, and benefits.
Qualifications:
Education/Certification:
- Master’s degree in human resources, business administration, education, or equivalent
- pHCLE and/or SPHR certification preferred
- A valid Texas Mid-Management certificate or Texas Principal Administrator’s certificate
Special Knowledge Skills:
- Knowledge of the selection, training, and supervision of personnel
- Knowledge of wage and salary, benefits, and performance appraisal
- Knowledge of school employment law, personnel law, and hearing procedures
- Ability to implement policy and procedures
- Ability to analyze and interpret data and statistics
- Ability to manage budget and personnel
- Strong communication, public relations, and interpersonal skills
Experience:
- Five years’ successful experience in human resources or leading one or more capital functions (i.e. recruitment, professional development, performance management) in either a school district or another field.
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
Employment
- Develop recruitment and retention strategies for district personnel.
- Develop and implement a screening and selection process for all employees.
- Work with principals and other administrators to forecast staffing needs and develop staffing plans.
- Ensure that all teachers are highly qualified.
- Administer and oversee orientation programs for new employees.
- Administer employment contracts and supervise contract renewals and non-renewals.
- Provide equal employment opportunity and work cooperatively with others to ensure compliance with federal and state laws and regulations.
- Assist supervisory personnel in conducting due-process procedures.
- Direct and monitor employee performance appraisal and ensure that supervisors have proper training.
- Assist supervisors and principals with employee counseling and improvement plans where needed.
- Oversee the necessary processing for issuance and renewal of state certificates and permits.
- Translate the organization’s strategy to improve student achievement and outcomes into an aligned human capital strategy, setting clear, measurable outcomes
- Increase the retention of top performers and reduce the retention of low performers organization-wide
- Seek continuous feedback and proactively adjust approaches to improve human capital functions
- Collaborate with all the departments to build support for and successful implementation to the Human Capital work
- Deliver frequent reports and analysis to enable data-driven human capital management decisions at the school and organization levels
- Provide succession planning guidance and support for key roles throughout the organization
- Help build an organization culture that is inclusive, representative off the populations of students served, and reflective of the organization’s mission and values
- Ensure the Human Capital team provides strong day-to-day support to employees regarding employment questions and issues, with an emphasis on staff receiving helpful, courteous, and responsive customer service address their needs
Compensation and Benefits
- Analyze wage and salary data and recommend effective compensation plans.
- Develop and implement procedures for salary administration and placement of new hires.
- Administer leave benefit programs and monitor employee attendance patterns.
- Develop and implement procedures for the preparation and updating of job descriptions and for the proper classification of positions in the district compensation plan.
- Administer the teacher salary schedule and service records.
- Oversee compliance with federal wage and overtime laws and ensure proper timekeeping for nonexempt personnel.
- Works with finance to calculate cost estimates for compensation and benefit recommendations.
- Manages the district’s health insurance, optional employee benefits, workers’ compensation, and unemployment compensation benefit programs.
- Works with insurance vendors and third-party administrators.
- Provides employees with information about benefits and advocates on their behalf.
- Reviews and recommends changes in benefit programs.
Employee Relations
- Promote collegiality, teamwork, and collaborative decision making among staff.
- Implement procedures to ensure that employees are informed of personnel policies, procedures, and programs that affect them.
- Implement and oversee effective districtwide employee recognition programs.
- Coordinate communication and mediation processes for employee complaints, grievances, and concerns.
- Monitor employee retention and turnover through analysis of data and exit interviews.
- Ensure that the employee handbook and personnel directory are created, updated annually, and distributed.
- Ensure effective, efficient, and courteous services
Budget
- Ensure that programs are cost effective and that funds are managed prudently.
- Develop and monitor the annual budget for the department.
- Implement the policies established by federal and state laws, State Board of Education rule, and local board policy in the area assigned.
Records
- Supervise personnel records management and oversee compliance with the state records management program (may serve as designated records management officer).
- Develop and maintain systems for retrieval of information in support of all programs.
- Compile, maintain, file, and secure all physical and electronic reports, records, and other required documents.
Human Resources Department
- Implement policies associated with and oversee processing of employee complaints and grievances.
- Lead the administration of employment contracts and facilitate the contract renewal and non-renewal process.
- Work cooperatively with others to ensure compliance with federal law (Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance, Title IX, Fair Labor Standards Act) and local Board policy.
- Oversee the implementation of employee transfer policy and procedures as well as staff vacancies, resignations and temporary disabilities.
- Oversee the process and procedures relevant to preparation and revision of job descriptions and the classification of positions in the District compensation plan and the preparation of salary projections.
- Oversee the District application, screening and interviewing processes
- Evaluate job performance of department staff to ensure effectiveness.
- Provide training and development for department staff.
- Ensure that department operations contribute to the attainment of district goals and objectives.
- Develop and monitor the annual budget for the department.
Other
- Attend board meetings and make presentations to the board as needed
- Participate in professional development activities to maintain current knowledge of human resource rules, regulations, and practices.
- Serve as chairperson for Medical Trust Fund
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Supervise and evaluate the performance of human resource department staff
Working Conditions:
Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
Maintain emotional control under stress. Frequent districtwide and statewide travel. Occasional prolonged or irregular hours.