Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Human Resources and Labor Relations

Job Description

Open to candidates who are permanent in the civil service title of Administrative Labor Relations Analyst or the comparable civil service titles of Health Services Manager, Administrative Community Relations Specialist, or Administrative Staff Analyst.

Agency/Office Overview:

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is a world-renowned agency with a long tradition of protecting and promoting health in the nation’s most culturally and linguistically diverse city. Our 7,000-plus team members bring an extraordinary array of languages, cultures, and experiences to bear on the work of public health. Our diversity fuels creativity because all perspectives are heard and valued. DOHMH aims to improve the health outcomes of all New Yorkers by centering persistent racial inequities and promotion of social justice at the core of its work.

Position Overview:

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene seeks a dynamic and experienced professional to serve as the Assistant Commissioner for Human Resources and Labor Relations. Under Executive direction, and with the broadest possible latitude to exercise independent judgment and decision making, the incumbent will be responsible for implementing HR strategies that support DOHMH including oversight of recruitment, leaves, and labor relations. The successful candidate will lead, oversee, direct, and manage all aspects of Human Resources for DOHMH.

The candidate will be expected to provide strategic leadership, direction and guidance to a team of HR professionals and their respective staff; ensure the efficient daily operations of all human resources and personnel functions, administration, HR strategic planning, civil service hiring, and workforce planning; analyze existing policies and processes to determine and make recommendations as necessary to improve existing practices; collaborate with the senior leadership team to ensure HR initiatives support DOHMHs strategies and goals; advise and make recommendations to senior leadership on matters pertaining to workforce administration, compensation, promotions, and ensure the efficient and effective resolution of HR issues in accordance with applicable laws, established rules and regulations.
Proposed Duties

Duties include but not limited to:

- Manage a staff of approximately 60 people in the bureau of Human Resources and Labor Relations, including Recruitment and Hiring, Civil Service, Compliance, Labor Relations, Workforce Analytics, Leaves and Benefits, and Employee Relations.

- Provide strategic leadership for recruitment strategies, civil service hiring, succession management, administrative processing workflows, and labor management resolutions.

- Provide expert HR counsel to agency leadership and serve as liaison to unions, oversight bodies and external stakeholders.

- Develop and implement HR policies and procedures consistent with civil service laws, collective bargaining agreements and agency goals.

- Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and retention strategies to ensure skilled and diverse public health workforce that reflects the communities we serve

- Update agency staff on changes in HR policy.

- Ensure that recruitment, hiring, and promotion/salary actions are done equitably in accordance with all related laws and regulations.

- Work closely with EEO office and Occupational Safety and Health to ensure adherence to laws and regulations.

- Ensure that leave and workers compensation requests are processed with applicable laws.

- Work closely with the Employee Law Unit on disciplinary matters.

- Lead agency staffing efforts in emergency activations.

- Work closely with DCAS on civil service appointments, title classifications, and citywide HR policies.

- Conduct analysis on salary parity, recruitment efforts, and workforce needs.

- Provide data to agency leadership on vacancies, separations, staff demographics, and other workforce related data.

- Responsible for overall leadership of all Human Recourses and Labor Relations matters.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience leading a Human Resources department for a large organization, preferably in the public sector.

- Experience working with a unionized workforce.

- Ability to interpret and implement personnel rules and regulations and requirements set forth by Civil Service Laws and other applicable regulations.

- Strong analytical, interpersonal, problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.

- Ability to communicate highly complex information clearly and succinctly, both orally and in writing.

- MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) proficiency.

- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.

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