Provides strategic leadership for the Agency’s human resources function, ensuring HR strategy, policies, employee relations, compensation, compliance, workforce planning, and culture initiatives support organizational goals and long-term workforce needs. Supervises and develops the HR Manager and HR Coordinator and serves as the senior HR advisor to Executive Leadership.

Essential Responsibilities

• Advise Executive Leadership, managers, and supervisors on employee relations, performance management, accommodations, organizational change, policy interpretation, and employment decisions.
• Lead or oversee workplace investigations, progressive discipline, employee complaints, disputes, terminations, and other sensitive employee matters.
• Monitor employment laws and regulatory requirements, ensure compliant practices, and coordinate employment-related matters with legal counsel and regulatory agencies.
• Lead HR policy development, interpretation, administration, and Employee Manual governance.
• Oversee compensation strategy, job structures, pay equity, workforce and succession planning, and job-description review.
• Analyze workforce, retention, satisfaction, and HR metrics and recommend actions to Executive Leadership.
• Direct employee engagement, culture, recognition, surveys, stay interviews, retention initiatives, and exit-interview analysis.
• Manage the HR department budget, contracts, operating plan, priorities, and staff performance.
• In collaboration with the CEO, oversee benefits, leave, recruitment, onboarding, training, volunteer programs, and HR operations.

• Bachelor’s degree and at least five years of relevant HR experience.
• Strong knowledge of employee relations, employment law, investigations, policy, compensation, workforce planning, and HR metrics.
• Demonstrated leadership, sound judgment, communication skills, confidentiality, diplomacy, integrity, and organization.
• Valid driver’s license meeting Agency standards and reliable transportation for regular travel within the service area.
• Successful background check.