Associate Director, BSD Human Resources

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Posted Job Title

Associate Director, BSD Human Resources

Job Profile Title

Associate Director C, Human Resources, School/ Center

Job Description Summary

The Division of Business Services (BSD) is looking for an Associate Director of Human Resources with deep experience influencing and impacting diverse and dynamic portfolios through effective management (both proactive and reactive) of a wide range of labor and employee relations issues. This person will be accountable for working with employees across multiple departments, building trusted relationships quickly, and leading with empathy, compassion, and creativity as a business partner to the service lines while ensuring a fair and just workplace culture is maintained within the division.

The Associate Director of Human Resources is a well-rounded professional who oversees and supports the division's human resources responsibilities and activities in close collaboration with the Executive Director of Business Services. This role serves as the Senior Human Resources Business Partner for the division and is required to understand the nuances of the division such that the Business Partner can effectively demonstrate and articulate the linkage of all HR initiatives and interventions with the achievement of desired organizational outcomes (both strategically and operationally). The Associate Director serves as a key strategic partner in coaching & counseling organizational leaders on complex employee & labor relations issues while ensuring compliance with University policy & labor and employment laws/regulations. The Associate Director will provide coordination of the talent acquisition life-cycle process for assigned client areas, as necessary. This position actively promotes initiatives and programs that increase employee visibility, connectedness, recognition, and active participation with a focus on fostering positive relationships and open communication with all members of the BSD community. The Associate Director of Human Resources is never compromising on service delivery standards and constantly serves as a steward for the function through every interaction, every day.

In their absence, this role serves as the backup for the Executive Director at a Divisional level and may be delegated as a functional representative to attend meetings and as a representative in larger-scale university initiatives.

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