The Executive Director of Human Resources provides key oversight, responsibility and management of the Employee Relations, Equal Employment Opportunity, and Learning and Organizational Development. The Executive Director will be responsible for leading the university’s efforts to provide strategic direction, critical oversight and management of the functional areas, as well as serve as Senior HR Business Partner in providing strategy, advice, and guidance to senior leaders including Deans, Schools, Colleges, and central administrative leaders. This role requires the Executive Director to be fully cognizant of how to provide counsel to the most senior leaders in a complex and challenging environment across the full range of employee matters, and be conversant in the most up to date best practices in employee relations, organizational development, workforce planning, performance management, classification and compensation, delivery of services and support in all functional areas of Human Resources.

The incumbent will serve as a resource for other HR Managers in resolving issues, facilitating interactions, and developing and implementing policies and procedures. Primary responsibilities include supporting the planning and execution of human capital plans; executing on talent management strategies, and programs; consulting on business leadership team effectiveness; executive coaching and leadership development processes; support of employee engagement and culture work; serving as an HR liaison between departments and other HR staff; employee relations support, and overseeing the investigation and resolution of employee complaints including the response to third party complaints (i.e., EEOC charges). The Executive Director will manage the Director of Learning and Organizational Development, two HR Business Partners (HR Consultants), who will focus primarily in the areas of people strategy and organizational effectiveness, change leadership and coaching, and management level employee relations support; one investigator (HR Consultant) responsible for investigating employee complaints, one employee relations specialist for administrative and technical support (Human Resource Specialist).

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, or related field and a minimum of 6-8 years of progressively responsible experience related to organizational development, workforce planning, employee relations, and EEO compliance.
• Knowledge of HR functional areas including Benefits, Human Resource Information Systems, Talent Acquisition and Classification and Compensation.
• Experience working with HR data and an ability to provide analytical reporting to support data driven decisions.
• Previous supervisory experience.
• Strong critical thinking, decision making, interpersonal, organizational, communication and writing skills, with the ability to effectively present information to senior levels of leadership is necessary.
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with a wide range of constituencies and a varied community. Must have the ability to interpret and act on policies and procedures, develop and implement policies and procedures for the university.
• Must be self-motivated, must be able to multi-task and handle confidential material In a professional manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with workplace mediation is preferred.

About The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

UNC Greensboro, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is a higher-research activity university as classified by the Carnegie Foundation. Founded in 1891 and one of the original three UNC system institutions, UNCG is one of the most diverse universities in the state with nearly 20,000 students and over 2,700 faculty and staff members representing more than 90 nationalities. With 17 Division I athletic teams, 85 undergraduate degrees in over 100 areas of study, as well as 74 master’s and 32 doctoral programs, UNCG is consistently recognized nationally among the top universities for academic excellence and value, with noted strengths in health and wellness, visual and performing arts, nursing, education, and more. For additional information, please visit uncg.edu and follow UNCG on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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