Sr. HR Partner: Employee Relations & Institutional Compliance

The Senior HR Partner, Employee Relations & Institutional Compliance serves as a senior individual contributor responsible for providing advanced consultation and independently managing complex employee relations, civil rights, workplace investigation, accommodation, and institutional compliance matters.

The Senior HR Partner exercises significant independent judgment in managing assigned matters, advising leaders, conducting investigations, identifying organizational risk, and developing practical recommendations. Complex, high-risk, precedent-setting, or institutionally significant matters are escalated to the Director, who retains functional ownership, program oversight, and decision authority.

• Provide advanced consultation to leaders regarding employee relations, performance management, corrective action, workplace conflict, employee complaints, policy application, and other workplace matters.
• Independently assess complex employee concerns and recommend appropriate courses of action consistent with University policies and practices.
• Coach leaders on effective issue resolution, documentation, performance expectations, and employee communication.
• Support employee relations matters associated with organizational and workforce changes.
• Identify recurring trends, organizational risks, and opportunities for proactive intervention.

• Conduct prompt, thorough, impartial, and appropriately documented investigations involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, sexual misconduct, workplace misconduct, and other policy concerns.
• Conduct investigative planning; complainant, respondent, and witness interviews; gathering testimonial, documentary and electronic evidence; trauma-informed investigative practices; and preparation of comprehensive investigative reports.
• Support matters arising under Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, and other applicable civil rights and employment requirements.
• Maintain appropriate neutrality, discretion, confidentiality, and professional judgment when handling sensitive matters.
• Escalate complex or significant institutional risks to the Director/Title IX Coordinator.

• Administer assigned workplace accommodation matters, including intake, documentation, interactive process discussions, case management, and follow-up.
• Consult with employees and leaders regarding essential job functions, workplace limitations, potential accommodations, and operational considerations.
• Develop accommodation recommendations consistent with established University procedures and applicable requirements.
• Maintain appropriate confidentiality of medical and accommodation information.
• Escalate complex, high-risk, disputed, or potentially precedent-setting accommodation matters to the Director.

• Manage assigned employee relations, civil rights, investigation, and accommodation cases from intake through resolution.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential case documentation and monitor applicable deadlines and follow-up requirements.
• Apply established employment and institutional policies consistently and identify matters requiring policy interpretation or escalation.
• Analyze case trends and data to identify systemic concerns, emerging risks, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Support compliance assessments, reporting, audits, and other institutional risk-management activities as assigned.

• Develop and deliver training and guidance related to employee relations, civil rights, workplace conduct, investigations, accommodations, reporting…