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Associate Director - Human Resources Employee Relations
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Position Number: 3409949
Location: Lubbock, TX
Position Type: Human Resources

Associate Director - Human Resources Employee Relations
Lubbock
30221BR
Human Resources

Position Description
As the Associate Director of Employee Relations, you will lead the Employee Relations staff in serving as a link between supervisors and their employees. Your staff will be responsible for answering questions and helping resolve work-place concerns. We will depend on your expert knowledge to explain human resources policies, procedures, and laws. You and your staff will guide campus leaders through the employee performance management, corrective action, and termination processes. Your experience and knowledge are vital as you address employee relations concerns and mediate workplace disputes. You will make a difference!

Major/Essential Functions
Every day you will:

Rely on your expertise as you lead the employee relations staff to proactively develop and implement employee relations practices, policies, and programs that support a high-performance campus culture by establishing clear expectations, providing feedback, and encouraging productive behavior.
Meet with and coach employees to help them overcome problems affecting their job performance or professional relationships in the workplace.
Use your expert knowledge to explain university policies and procedures as well as employment laws, often conferring with management to develop or implement personnel policies or procedures.
Think critically to provide feedback and solutions to the Human Resources staff in collaboration with the Senior Director.
You will oversee compliance and manage risk associated with leave administration, ADA, background checks, performance management, coaching and corrective action, and mediation.
Be responsible for the professional development of two employee relations specialists.
Work on getting better by focusing on your professional development by staying up-to-date on all federal, state, and university-related laws, policies and procedures.

Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in the area of specialization or closely related field. Four years of related administrative and technical experience. Additional job related education may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications
To excel in this role, you must be an experienced human resources professional and have:

Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to connect and establish rapport with employees at all levels of the University community.
Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
Be approachable and work to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.
Expert negotiation skills which you will use to bring others together to reconcile differences.
Be a proven leader with a commitment towards developing others.

You will use the Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Power-point, Outlook daily. Proficiency is a must.

To apply, visit workattexastech.com

As an EEO/AA employer, the Texas Tech University System and its components will not discriminate in our employment practices based on an applicants race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran.