Municipal Human Resources Consultant - IPS

Serves as a Human Resource Consultant delivering professional subject matter expertise; technical assistance; research; training development and delivery; recruitment and selection assistance; publication and timely maintenance of articles, bulletins, technical reports; and related human resource management activities to cities, city officials (elected and appointed), and their staffs in assigned cities in the state of Tennessee. Additionally, the position provides human resources technical assistance to Tennessee professional organizations such as the Tennessee Chapter of the International Personnel Management Association (TPMA), Tennessee City Management Association (TCMA), Tennessee Association of Municipal Clerks and Recorders (TAMCAR), Tennessee Municipal League (TML), and Public Entity Partners and others. Serves as an in-house expert to MTAS staff in that area. Performs other special work as assigned by the Technical Consulting Program Manager, the Executive Director and the Assistant Director. Often assists other consultants in the performance of projects and participates in team projects. As an individual contributor to ongoing IPS and MTAS strategic initiative, will serve in a variety of continuous 

Consulting 

• Provides professional advice and technical assistance primarily to elected and appointed municipal officials. 
• Provides advice and assistance for non-city clients such as elected and staff members of the Tennessee General Assembly, employees of state agencies, staff of the Tennessee Municipal League, and officers of associations of municipal officials on a broad range of issues and problems of varying complexity (i.e. assistance with employment selection assessment centers, ordinance and resolution preparation, development/revision of employee handbooks/policy manual, job description development/revision, performance management system design/development, ad-hoc question/inquiry resolution), and other HR-related initiatives. 

• Development and maintenance of customer relationships through delivery of designed programming, emergent work activities, and customer-aligned program development; significant time is spent at customer locations in need-consulting and delivery of service. Moderate time is spent in developing increased customer awareness of MTAS services and offerings to enhance the MTAS brand and increase customer utilization.

• Maintains an area (or areas) of specialization and serves as the in-house expert to MTAS staff in that area. May serve as official MTAS representative to an association of city officials.

Administration and Professional Development 

• Includes team meetings, committee involvement, agency meetings, and retreats, IPS meetings and retreats, maintaining records on all relevant activities, including the agency databases for work products from projects and questions for use by other consultants and for reference by cities. Includes time spent to remain current in fields of expertise. This involves time at professional meetings and conferences, seminars and training classes, professional reading, and associated training.

   

Training

• Design, development and/or delivery of training programs related to the Human Resource discipline. 
• Identification of service gaps for delivery of HR related training needs in customer organizations.
• Communicate and collaborate with the training team, providing ongoing formative HR related training needs assessments; assists with ongoing program evaluation.

Publication Research and Development  

• Researches, drafts, and maintains  published information on a variety of issues that are geared to various reader levels of human resources and managerial experience, including, but not limited to: MTAS Knowledgebase, MORe, articles for the Tennessee Municipal League's newspaper, Tennessee Town and City, technical reports, and publications for municipal officials, and employees.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Public Administration, or related field
• Experience: Requires at least seven years of progressively responsible exempt-level human resource leadership experience. 

• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: 

  • Knowledge of all applicable state and federal employment laws, HR planning and program implementation in all functional areas, including: policy design, development, and deployment; employee relations; succession and workforce planning; compensation; benefits; leave; EEO and diversity; employee health and wellness; HR legal