Vice President of Human Resources

SUMMARY

The Vice President of Student Achievement and Employee Success is a senior administrative position responsible for providing strategic leadership for the College's comprehensive people, culture, and human resources functions. Reporting directly to the College President, the Vice President serves as the College's senior leader for employee success, talent acquisition, talent development, employee and labor relations, compensation and benefits, professional development, performance management, employee engagement, HR compliance, and organizational culture through the College’s Maroon & Gold Standards MGS.

The position advances Jackson College's Student Achievement Imperative principally through the employee life cycle: recruiting and selecting mission/MGS-aligned employees; supporting supervisors in building high-performing teams; strengthening onboarding, training, coaching, accountability, and retention; and helping create a workplace culture in which all employees understand and undertake their role in advancing student achievement.

• Creating and implementing people and culture strategies that support the College's mission, vision, values, strategic priorities, TCS2 culture, and the Maroon & Gold Standards.
• Ensuring that job descriptions, postings, hiring practices, onboarding, professional development, performance expectations, and performance reviews reinforce Jackson College's commitment to student achievement, service, accountability, and employee success.
• Providing strategic leadership for recruitment, selection, employee engagement, professional growth, retention, succession planning, compensation, benefits, labor relations, and workplace culture.
• Leading a lawful, fair, respectful, and meaningful hiring process that helps attract and retain highly capable employees who are committed to student success.
• Developing and deploying a comprehensive employee training and development plan, including leadership development, compliance training, supervisory training, and mission-centered professional learning.
• Ensuring the deployment of a meaningful onboarding program for all new employees, grounded in the College’s mission and Maroon & Gold Standards, as well as a respectful, informative off-boarding process for departing employees.
• Regularly reviewing market competitiveness for all employee classifications, including compensation plans, benefits, and workplace policies.
• Using HR data, employee feedback, and institutional priorities to recommend improvements in employee engagement, retention, performance, and service quality.
• Ensuring that the College maintains a safe, respectful, nondiscriminatory, and service-oriented work environment.
• Providing support to the College President and serving as a member of the President's Executive Council, as requested.
• At the direction of the President, serving as the lead negotiator, in partnership with the College’s Office of the General Counsel, on collective bargaining matters and helping maintain productive labor-management relationships.

• Collaborate with senior leaders to develop and execute people strategies aligned with the College's mission, vision, values, strategic plan, Maroon & Gold Standards, and student achievement priorities.
• Serve as the senior leader responsible for ensuring that the employee experience supports the student experience and that College employees understand their individual and collective role in student achievement.
• Provide institutional leadership in workflows involving talent management, workforce planning, organizational development, employee success, and culture-building.
• Translate the College's TCS2 & MGS culture into practical employee systems, including selection, onboarding, training, supervision, evaluation, recognition, and accountability.
• Advise the President and senior leaders on workforce issues, employee relations, leadership effectiveness, morale, organizational design, and institutional capacity.

• Oversee day-to-day operations of People and Culture/HR, especially recruitment, selection,…