Associate Director Human Resources, Talent Management

Associate Director Human Resources, Talent Management

Position Title Associate Director Human Resources, Talent Management

Division

Division President's Office Division

Department Name

Department Name Human Resources

Position Type

Position Type Staff - Non Classified

Position Overview

Rhode Island College is seeking a strategic and highly collaborative HR professional to lead our team in the role of Associate Director of Human Resources, Talent Management. As the Associate Director you will have the opportunity to create and lead programs that make a meaningful difference in the employee experience. This is a highly visible role for an HR professional who enjoys building—not simply maintaining—talent programs and turning ideas into strategies, programs, and results.

If you are energized by developing people, building programs and leading change this is an opportunity to contribute and make a positive impact on the employee experience.

Primary Purpose

The Associate Director Human Resources, Talent Management plays a central role in enhancing the college’s capacity to adapt, evolve, and thrive in a dynamic educational landscape. The Associate Director is responsible for leading efforts to constantly improve recruiting efforts, implement professional development initiatives, talent development, data analysis, and process improvement. Providing strategic and operational leadership, the Associate Director will lead a team of professionals to deliver comprehensive initiatives.

Strategic Initiatives & Implementation

• Define and advance the college’s vision and long-term priorities for all staff and faculty learning, management and executive development, organizational effectiveness, and talent mobility impacting the entire college community.
• Serve as a principal advisor on college-wide strategies for staff development, engagement, retention, and organizational effectiveness.
• Build and sustain robust partnerships with HR leaders, academic, and administrative partners to develop and implement integrated, campus-wide talent strategies and ensure alignment with the college’s mission and strategic goals.
• Lead, inspire, and develop a highly effective team.
• Ensure all programs are compliant with college collective bargaining agreements, state procedures, and federal/state laws.
• Remain competent and current through self-directed professional reading, developing professional contacts with colleagues, attending professional development courses, and attending training and/or courses as needed.
• Design and develop new HR processes to improve the efficiency of operations and recommend new approaches to effect continual improvement of processes and operations.

Talent Acquisition

• Oversee full cycle recruiting efforts. Build and maintain recruiting strategies and best practices. Promote a positive image of the college as an employee of choice.
• Identify and propose recruiting strategies and changes, keeping in line with industry best practices, that align with business needs.
• Implement strategies to establish and iterate on pre—boarding and onboarding processes.

Talent Development

• Provide guidance to HR staff and department supervisors on the orientation and onboarding of new employees and troubleshoot as needed. Oversee communications with new employees during the on-boarding process.
• Responsible for monitoring the creation of new job descriptions and edits to existing job descriptions to align requirements across the college.
• Establish structure and evaluations for compensation philosophy, equity, and job families/structure across the college.
• Evaluate retention metrics across college and report on trends.
• Establish best practices for position management utilizing systems and processes.

Professional Development & Employee Engagement

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