Human Resources Manager

Human Resources Manager – Africa town Community Land Trust

Onsite position – Monday-Friday

Africa town Community Land Trust’s mission is to acquire, develop, and steward land in Greater Seattle to empower and preserve the Black Diaspora community.

We envision vibrant and thriving Black Communities through land ownership.

• Ownership
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  Promoting, increasing, and protecting/supporting individual and collective ownership of land and businesses
• Opportunity
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  Promoting, increasing, and protecting/supporting opportunities for well-being
• Community Collaborative Partnerships
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  Build community, collaborate, and partner with others around shared values to maximize and accelerate impact
• Cultural Heritage Preservation
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  Acknowledge, honor, promote, and celebrate the Black legacy in Seattle
• Innovation
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  Takes initiative to identify creative solutions towards continuous improvement of existing processes and brings new ways of approaching the work culturally
• Globally Connected Intergenerational Wealth Creation
  : ACLT's work is locally rooted but globally connected to create mutual enrichment benefits
• Racial Equity & Social Justice
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  Leading with and centering the needs of the Black community in asset ownership, equitable distribution of wealth, opportunities, and access historically denied by systems of oppression

The Human Resources Manager supervises the HR Team and serves as the subject matter expert for all workforce matters on behalf of ACLT. This position is responsible for collaboratively developing the organization’s workplace culture strategy and workforce planning. It is an engaged, hands‑on leadership role managing oversight for the organization’s day‑to‑day HR needs while leading the organization’s key employee engagement and HR visions.

The role serves as a strategic thought partner to team leaders in all aspects of workforce planning.

• Embracing and demonstrating ACLT's values, core and leadership competencies, and modeling a high level of integrity and equity in the approach to human resources.
• Administers or oversees the administration of human resource programs including, but not limited to, compensation, benefits, leave; disciplinary matters; disputes and investigations; performance and talent management; productivity, recognition, and morale; occupational health and safety; and training and development.
• Provides tools for guiding organizational leaders on coaching, performance management, and addressing poor performance.
• Ability to develop direct reports and delegate tasks effectively.
• Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff in the department.
• Oversees the daily workflow of the department.
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations to direct reports.
• Develops and implements departmental budget.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Advise and coach leaders on employee relations to address performance, attendance, or conduct issues.
• Administer benefits and leave programs and ensure compliance with federal, state, and municipal ordinances.
• Negotiate and manage benefit contracts to ensure a competitive total rewards program.
• Direct and manage the performance management system.

• Plan, develop, coordinate, and implement policies, processes, training, initiatives, and surveys to support the organization’s human resource compliance and strategy needs.
• Monitors and ensures compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations and recommends best practices; reviews and modifies policies and practices to maintain compliance.
• Maintains knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law; applies this knowledge to communicate changes in policy, practice, and resources to leadership and the executive team.
• Oversees employee disciplinary meetings, terminations, and investigations.
• Develop and maintain administrative policies.

• Collaborates with senior leadership to understand the organization’s goals and strategy related to staffing, recruiting, and retention.
• Identifies staffing and recruiting needs;…