Primary Purpose:

Provide leadership for human resource activities to ensure high quality staffing and retention of district personnel. Recommends and implements legally sound and effective human resource management programs, policies, and practices. Responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of human resource programs to include professional and auxiliary staffing, wage and salary administration, leave administration, performance appraisal, employee relations, and benefits.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

Master’s degree in human resources, business administration, education, or equivalent

Special Knowledge/Skills:

Knowledge of the selection, training, and supervision of personnel

Knowledge of wage and salary, benefits, and performance appraisal

Knowledge of school employment law, personnel law, and hearing procedures

Ability to implement policy and procedures

Ability to analyze and interpret data and statistics

Ability to manage budget and personnel

Strong communication, public relations, and interpersonal skills

Experience:

Three years successful experience in public school administration; human resources or supervisory experience preferred

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

Employment

1. Develop recruitment and retention strategies for district personnel.
2. Develop and implement a screening and selection process for all employees.

3. Work with principals and other administrators to forecast staffing needs and develop staffing plans.
4. Ensure that all teachers are highly qualified.
5. Administer and oversee orientation programs for new employees.
6. Administer employment contracts and supervise contract renewals and non-renewals.
7. Provide equal employment opportunity and work cooperatively with others to ensure compliance with federal and state laws and regulations.
8. Assist supervisory personnel in conducting due-process procedures.
9. Direct and monitor employee performance appraisal and ensure that supervisors have proper training.
10. Assist supervisors and principals with employee counseling and improvement plans where needed.
11. Oversee the necessary processing for issuance and renewal of state certificates and permits.
12. Develop and implement teacher induction and mentoring training programs to support teachers in years one through three.

Compensation and Benefits

1. Analyze wage and salary data and recommend effective compensation plans.
2. Develop and implement procedures for salary administration and placement of new hires.
3. Administer leave benefit programs and monitor employee attendance patterns.
4. Develop and implement procedures for the preparation and updating of job descriptions and for the proper classification of positions in the district compensation plan.
5. Administer the teacher salary schedule and service records.
6. Oversee compliance with federal wage and overtime laws and ensure proper timekeeping for nonexempt personnel.
7. Works with finance to calculate cost estimates for compensation and benefit recommendations.
8. Manages the district’s health insurance, optional employee benefits, workers’ compensation, and unemployment compensation benefit programs.
9. Works with insurance vendors and third party administrators.
10. Provides employees with information about benefits and advocates on their behalf.
11. Reviews and recommends changes in benefit programs.                                                                                               

Employee Relations

1. Promote collegiality, teamwork, and collaborative decision making among staff.
2. Implement procedures to ensure that employees are informed of personnel policies, procedures, and programs that affect them.
3. Implement and oversee effective districtwide employee recognition programs.
4. Coordinate communication and mediation processes for employee complaints, grievances, and concerns.
5. Monitor employee retention and turnover through analysis of data and exit interviews.
6. Ensure that the employee handbook and personnel directory are created, updated annually, and distributed.

Budget

1. Ensure that programs are cost effective and that funds are managed prudently.
2. Develop and monitor the annual budget for the department.
3. Implement the policies established by federal and state laws, State Board of Education rule, and local board policy in the area assigned.

Records

1. Supervise personnel records management and oversee compliance with the state records management program (may serve as designated records management officer).
2. Develop and maintain systems for retrieval of information in support of all programs.
3. Compile, maintain, file, and secure all physical and electronic reports, records, and other required documents.

Human Resources Department

1. Hire, organize, and direct the work activities of department staff.
2. Evaluate job performance of department staff to ensure effectiveness.
3. Provide training and development for department staff.
4. Ensure that department operations contribute to the attainment of district goals and objectives.
5. Develop and monitor the annual budget for the department.

Other

1. Ensure that department operations contribute to the attainment of district goals and objectives.
2. Recommend policies that improve human resource related programs.
3. Attend board meetings regularly and make presentations to the board.
4. Participate in professional development activities to maintain current knowledge of human resource rules, regulations, and practices.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Supervise and evaluate the performance of employee benefits specialist/records clerk, substitute coordinator, secretary, and student worker.

Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:

Tools/Equipment Used: Standard office equipment, including computer and peripherals

Posture: Prolonged sitting; occasional bending/stooping, pushing/pulling, and twisting

Motion: Frequent repetitive hand motions; frequent keyboarding and use of mouse

Lifting: Occasional light lifting and carrying (under 15 pounds)

Environment: Work is performed in an office setting; may require occasional irregular and/or prolonged hours

Mental Demands: Maintain emotional control under stress.  Frequent district wide and state wide travel; occasional prolonged and irregular hours.