🚀 Director, Employee Relations

Overview

The position is responsible for establishing and developing trusted relationships with the HR Strategy and Operations team, Labor Relations, Centers for Excellence, leadership, and legal.

Job Title: Director, Employee Relations

Department: Human Resources

Location: Riedman Campus

Hours Per Week: 40

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am - 4:30pm

Responsibilities

• Independently conducts and oversees investigations of highly complex and sensitive HR issues, including conducting claimant, witness, and accused team member interviews; analyzing data from various internal systems; composing investigation reports.
• Proposes remedial action based on investigation findings, recommending appropriate actions to correct concerns based on assessing risks and minimizing liability.
• Provides oversight to their Employee Relations Team in conducting team member relations investigations, reviews and approves investigation and recommendations completed by the Employee Relations Partner/Manager.
• Analyzes employee relations trends to produce strategic, proactive recommendations to HR and the business to proactively address and mitigate systemic issues.
• Provides coaching to departmental leadership in carrying out their responsibilities on team member relations matters.
• Fosters a positive work environment facilitating discussions or providing consistent advice.
• Escalates issues and matters to Vice President of Employee and Labor Relations with recommendations as appropriate.
• Applies a continuous improvement mindset across the Employee Relations Partner function to identify and implement change.
• Leads projects and programs of work as assigned that may include maintaining entity specific or system-wide policies at regular intervals, legal case management, prepares data from internal systems and creates presentations and reports on hot topics or trends.
• Establishes reporting for various data sources related to ER metrics and review to assess where action can be taken to simplify or streamline a process, train managers, etc.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on employment laws and appropriately applies information to team member relation matters.
• Supports other internal projects/initiatives as needed.
• Keeps up to date on regulation changes and communicates and implements within the team as appropriate.
• Coaches, mentors, and trains others as subject matter expert.
• Just Culture Champion and Trainer.

Required Qualifications

• For those hired on or after 7/1/2024, Bachelor’s Degree required, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources preferred.
• Five years of progressive experience in Human Resources, which includes at least two years of employee relations, labor relations and/or employee investigations experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• PHR/SPHR or a similarly recognized certification related to Human Resources
• Knowledge of employment law and experience with progressive employment best practices
• Just Culture Champion trained

Education

Licenses / Certifications

PHR/SPHR or a similarly recognized certification related to Human Resources

Physical Requirements

S - Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Any physical requirements reported by a prospective employee and/or employee’s physician or delegate will be considered for accommodations.

Pay Range

$100,000.00 - $135,000.00

City

Rochester

Postal Code

14617

The listed base pay range is a good faith representation of current potential base pay for a successful full time applicant. It may be modified in the future and eligible for additional pay components. Pay is determined by factors including experience, relevant qualifications, specialty, internal equity, location, and contracts.

Rochester Regional Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital or familial status, military or veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.