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Director of People and Culture (HR) - One Million Degrees

Who: One Million Degrees

What: To help support our continued growth, One Million Degrees is seeking a dynamic and collaborative Director of People and Culture with exceptional judgment, interpersonal skills, and ability to support and develop a talented team from a one-person HR shop. Experience in a unionized environment is highly valued. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of People and Culture is a critical position that will provide guidance and leadership and will play a key role in driving the next phase of growth at One Million Degrees. This is an exceptional opportunity to design and lead strategies to recruit, develop, and retain top talent for an innovative and transformative model for supporting and accelerating community college students. The ideal candidate will be a confident leader with demonstrated experience collecting and synthesizing input from stakeholders, identifying opportunities for improvement, proposing creative and pragmatic solutions, and thoughtfully designing process rollouts.  The successful candidate will also need to be experienced in employment law, compliance, and labor relations.


Responsibilities:

Build Strong Labor Relations
  • Manage the implementation of OMD’s first collective bargaining agreement and provide ongoing interpretation and administration of the contract
  • Advise leadership and supervisors of unionized employees on policy and practice to ensure compliance with the contract
  • Manage and continuously build OMD’s relationship with Union representatives

Attract and Recruit Talented and Diverse Candidates

  • Build on OMD’s current recruitment and hiring processes to attract talented and diverse employees at every level
  • Build and maintain systems to track and communicate with candidates
  • Develop talent pipelines with higher education and community partners

Onboard and Train Employees

  • Implement and continually improve
  • OMD’s onboarding and new hire training process, making sure that employees feel welcomed, informed about their benefits, and prepared to excel in their roles

Lead Culture-Building and Contribute to DEI Strategy

  • Help define and create strategies for OMD’s organizational culture goals, working to make OMD an employer of choice
  • Ensure that OMD is an equitable and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and can thrive through trainings, coaching, and overall strategy and practice
  • Liaise with OMD’s affinity groups and clubs and plan culture-building events

Develop Talent and Drive Performance

  • Continue to build and evolve OMD’s talent development processes including organizational core competencies, goal-setting, performance metrics, 360 degree feedback, coaching, and performance evaluations
  • Manage OMD’s professional development programming, identifying and implementing training and development opportunities for individuals and teams

Administer Benefits and Ensure Compliance

  • Manage all benefits at OMD
  • Stay abreast of benefit and policy trends and best-practices
  • Manage OMD’s compliance with all labor and employment laws keeping current on changes in local, state, and federal law
  • Maintain required information such as labor posters and employee data

Qualifications:

Education – bachelor’s degree required; MBA or related Master’s degree and/or HR certification is preferred but not required

Experience

  • 5-7 years Human Capital or Human Resources experience, non-profit, civic sector, or school district experience a plus
  • Job experience or coursework relating to HR/legal compliance
  • Experience in a unionized environment is a plus 

Skills

  • Highly skilled communicator; exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills
  • Strong project manager; proven success working in a fast-paced environment and delivering against multiple work streams
  • Fluent in change management strategies; proven success in implementing change across an organization
  • Data-driven; proven ability to manage data/metrics and make data-informed decisions

Traits

  • Entrepreneurial; you enjoy building, creating, and executing new strategies
  • Trustworthy in managing sensitive situations and information; you are discrete, professional, and possess excellent judgment
  • Collaborative; you enjoy gathering stakeholder input to create innovative shared solutions that meet the needs of the organization
  • Detail-oriented and compliance-minded; you enjoy dotting i’s and crossing t’s
  • Comfort with the uncertain; you are motivated to move forward, make decisions, and finalize details quickly once information is available
  • Committed to DEI; you center equitable and inclusive practices in all phases of your work
  • You believe in the talent and potential of community college students to change the world
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