HR Business Partner

Job Posting Title

HR Business Partner

Employee Type

Regular

Recruiting Start Date

10-08-2024

Job Exempt?

Yes

Recruiting End Date

Open Until Filled

Aloha mai!  Mahalo for your interest in Kamehameha Schools.  If you are looking for an opportunity to utilize your skills and talents and grow in your profession, while serving and strengthening our Native Hawaiian community, we would love to have you join our ʻohana!

Job Summary

Consults with leaders to provide HR counsel, resolve complex employee relations issues, and improve work relationships and environment. Providing guidance on people and workforce strategies, the HRBP supports the business unit in achieving organizational goals and strategic initiatives. The HRBP forms intentional cross-functional partnerships within HR to deliver value-added services and solutions to enhance management and employee experiences across the organization. 

Essential Responsibilities

Consultation

• Serves as the primary HR point of contact for the department with line and senior management, providing HR guidance and interpretation.  

• Provides day-to-day performance management guidance to management (e.g., coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions). 

• Consults managers in formulating and executing proposed adjustments for new hires, promotions, and transfers, ensuring alignment with organizational policies and best practices. 

• Partners with managers to facilitate team-based interventions to promote high performance E Ola! Culture. Provides individual coaching as needed. 

Collaboration & Influence

• Partners with management (and other HR partners) to align people strategies with unit goals, as well as the overarching organization’s mission, identifying skills/talent needs for short-, mid-, and long-term success. 

• Collaborates with Talent Management to provide strategic guidance to leaders on goal setting, coaching, and the creation of individual performance development plans. Designs interventions, trainings, and programs to address employee development needs. 

• Delivers training on a variety of topics to diverse audience. 

Data Analysis & Problem Solving

• Analyzes data to gain insights into workforce trends, engagement, and performance metrics. Engages with others, cross-functionally and collaboratively to make connections, test, and fortify data-informed insights and feedback to utilize in client engagements to address issues, formulate strategy or approaches. 

• Utilizes data and insights to inform problem-solving and enhance manager effectiveness, designing responses, remedies, and programing, accordingly.

Employee & Labor Relations

• Collaboratives with leaders to identify root causes of complex employee issues and develop targeted remedies.