Human Resources Director

Position Summary

Provides executive-level leadership and strategic direction for the City's human resources, employee relations, labor relations, benefits, safety, risk management, and organizational development functions. Serves as the City's principal human resources advisor to the City Administrator, department directors, and other City officials. Develops and recommends policies, programs, systems, and strategies that support organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, legal compliance, workforce development, and the City's strategic goals.

The Human Resources Director is a senior-level administrative position responsible for providing leadership, strategic direction, and professional oversight of the City's human resources and related organizational programs.

The position serves as the City's principal human resources advisor and provides counsel to the City Administrator, department directors, and City officials on personnel strategy, employee and labor relations, compensation, benefits, organizational development, employment law compliance, risk management, and workplace practices.

The Director translates organizational goals and strategic priorities into effective workforce policies, programs, and practices and is accountable for the integrity, consistency, and effectiveness of the City's human resources systems. The position exercises substantial independent judgment and discretion in matters involving confidential personnel information, employee relations, investigations, labor relations, policy development, and organizational risk.

The incumbent provides functional leadership and oversight of human resources activities and directs the work of staff performing HR functions, consultants, vendors, other service providers as necessary to accomplish the City's HR objectives.

Provides strategic leadership for the development and implementation of short- and long-range workforce plans aligned with the City's strategic priorities. Analyzes workforce data, organizational needs, compensation trends, staffing requirements, and emerging workforce issues and develops recommendations for the City Administrator and executive leadership; develops and updates job descriptions; oversees and performs job audits and analysis; reviews and approves employee classification and salary changes in compliance with relevant policies

Leads organizational development initiatives designed to improve employee engagement, organizational effectiveness, leadership capacity, workplace culture, succession planning, retention, and employee development. Evaluates organizational needs and recommends strategies to strengthen workforce capability and service delivery.

Leads the development, review, and revision of personnel policies and administrative procedures. Evaluates existing policies for effectiveness, consistency, legal compliance, and alignment with organizational objectives and recommends changes to the City Administrator and City Council, as appropriate.

Serves as a principal resource to the City Administrator, department directors, and City Council on personnel policy matters and recommends policy changes based on legislation, regulatory requirements, legal guidance, organizational needs, and emerging human resources practices; develop and deliver presentations to management staff, city officials, council, boards, commissions, civic groups, and the general public; communicate policies and procedures to staff and the general public;

study legislation, arbitration decisions, and collective bargaining issues to assess trends and inform HR program strategy and recommendation

Provides strategic leadership and oversight for the City's recruitment, selection, onboarding, orientation, employee development, and separation processes, ensuring consistent, equitable, legally compliant, and effective workforce practices;
Maintains confidential personnel, medical and training records.

Provides leadership and strategic advice regarding labor relations and collective bargaining. Leads or participates in negotiations as directed by the City Administrator; analyzes collective bargaining proposals and agreements; evaluates compensation and benefit implications; monitors contract compliance; and advises management regarding labor relations strategies, employee relations matters, and applicable legal requirements. Conducts periodic surveys of other municipalities and employers to support collective bargaining and salary structure upgrades.

Provides leadership and professional oversight for employee relations matters and workplace investigations. Conducts, directs, or oversees investigations involving alleged violations of City policy, workplace conduct, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other employment-related concerns; evaluates findings; and makes recommendations regarding appropriate organizational responses.

Consults and assists the management team with employee performance evaluations and other performance-related…