Human Resource Manager | WCCW

Human Resource Manager Full Time | Permanent | WMS Band 02

Location:

Stafford Creek Corrections Center | Aberdeen, WASalary Range: $109,548 Annually

In order to provide the best customer service to the Stafford Creek Corrections Center facility, this Human Resource Manager position is a full time, in-office role.

At the Washington State Department of Corrections, we value our staff as our greatest asset. Within each Human Resource group, HR Managers serve as the backbone of the team. We are seeking a strategic, forward-thinking HR Manager to lead, mentor, and provide expert-level guidance to the human resources team at Washington Corrections Center for Women!

As a mid-level manager, you will support the Stafford Creek Corrections Center by ensuring high-quality professional services are delivered to appointing authorities, leaders, and managers. This includes providing expertise in organizational growth, workforce planning and development, employee development, and risk identification and mitigation. Through this work, you will help ensure the Department of Corrections can successfully fulfill its mission to improve public safety by positively changing lives.

The HR Manager oversees the administration of multiple comprehensive employee programs and promotes effective HR management by ensuring HR consultants deliver accurate information, thoughtful consultation, responsive customer service, and consistent support to employees, management, and executives. We are looking for a leader with a strong passion for public service who is excited to develop, coach, guide, and supervise both professional and paraprofessional consultants.

• Ensuring comprehensive professional level administration of multiple, complex HR programs in accordance with Agency policy, WACs, CBA, and laws that influence key business decision and include, but are not limited to, classification and compensation, recruitment, screening and selection, employee relations, labor relations, leave programs and corrective/disciplinary actions
• Ensuring appointing authorities, executive staff and key leaders are provided with comprehensive and sound direction in the application of Agency policy/procedure, collective bargaining agreements and state/federal human resource law
• Managing and supervising professional level staff
• Developing program standards and delivery methods to train and support managers, staff, supervisors and HR consultants
• Takes appropriate corrective action and recommends the initiation of an investigation or disciplinary action as necessary
• Ensuring staff demonstrates quality customer service, which is emphasized in their career development
• Participates on teams, committees and task groups and ensures the involvement of HR staff members and increased visibility of program activity.
• Consulting with management and the Agency labor relations office regarding matters such as notifying the union of anticipated changes in working conditions or other mandatory subjects of bargaining, assisting with and possibly attending bargaining sessions following a demand to bargain
• Attending grievance meetings and drafts grievance responses. Assists labor relations office in responding to subsequent steps in the grievance process—Grievance Resolution Panel, mediation, pre-arbitration meetings, and arbitration.

• High school diploma or equivalent
• At least three years of professional - level human resources experience, which included experience in at least three of the following:
  • Administering classification and compensation
  • Recruitment, screening, and selection
  • Interpretation of rules and regulations
  • Employee and labor relations
  • Corrective and disciplinary action
• At least one year of experience supervising HR staff.
  
  Experience may be gained concurrently with professional HR experience
• Extensive working knowledge of all aspects of HR and professional trends
• Ability to provide consultation and direction on most complex issues and questions, especially in the areas of employee discipline, employee relations, classification, compensation, recruitment,…