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Washington, D.C.
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Posted: 18-Oct-22
Location: Rindge, New Hampshire
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Since 1962, Franklin Pierce University has empowered thousands of undergraduate and graduate students to achieve academic excellence and lead meaningful, successful lives. Drawing from our strong foundation in liberal education, we offer majors and programs that develop essential, professional skills; promote close connections between students, faculty members, and staff; and position our students to realize their potential through highly personalized, financially accessible academic offerings.
Franklin Pierce encompasses a far-reaching geographic and virtual network educating a diverse population of residential undergraduates, online learners, and full-time graduate students through our main campus in Rindge, NH, and online and graduate centers in Manchester, and Lebanon, (NH) and Goodyear, AZ. We continue to explore new models and programs that build on our legacy of excellence and help students expand their knowledge, direct their passions, and graduate as qualified, engaged leaders.
At Franklin Pierce University, we believe in establishing a legacy through our unique ability to support and prepare students to thrive as leaders and engaged members of society. To do this, we know that is takes outstanding people from every background imaginable to support our mission. As part of our Human Resources team, you will bring your skills that will help us to attract, hire and retain talent, and help us create a culture that supports and empowers our diverse workforce. Based at our Rindge, NH location, this position will help to support faculty and staff located in all of the University locations.
Job Summary:
Are you a mission-focused, dynamic, and hard-working HR professional with a strong focus on customer service along with an ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment? As the Human Resources Manager, under the guidance of the Chief Human Resource Officer, you will provide leadership across the full spectrum of HR functions. Your focus will be on HRIS development and management, talent acquisition, and performance management leading to a high performing, employee-oriented human resource department.
Other tasks you will be able to do:
- Serve as consultive HR resource and liaison to supervisors, hiring managers and employees.
- Develop, deliver, and implement a comprehensive onboarding experience that creates a welcoming and inclusive experience for new employees
- Interpret, advise on, apply, and disseminate complex policies, procedures, and options to leadership and employees
- Advise employees and supervisors regarding performance and disciplinary issues, administer progressive discipline and grievance procedures consistently, listen to employee and supervisor concerns, conduct investigations as needed, and recommend a plan of action.
- Oversee performance appraisal process and provide relevant coaching and guidance.
- Guide management and employee actions by developing, writing, updating and maintain all HR – related polices, procedure, methods, guidelines, while communicating and enforcing university values in compliance with all legal and organizational requirements, standards and procedures.
- Develop and leverage training resources to support best strategies for employee development and success
The skills and qualifications that you possess will include:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or a closely related field of study required or an equivalent combination of certification, education, and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
- A Master’s degree and/or HR certification is preferred
- 7 - 10 years’ experience as a human resource professional in progressively responsible positions, preferably with supervisor experience.
- Expertise in talent acquisition, on-boarding and HRIS systems with demonstrated capability to quickly learn new HR systems
- Hands-on practitioner who works collaboratively to build and execute a technology road map that balances the strategic and operational needs of HR, leveraging a deep understanding of cutting- edge HR process and systems.
- Demonstrated competency in the development and implementation of innovative systems, initiates, strategies, policies and process improvements
- Dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Expertise in regulatory compliance across the full spectrum on HR functions
- Ease with public speaking
- Proficient in social media marketing.
This position is an in-person role on campus with a flexible workplace schedule including the possibility of limited remote work.
Application Deadline:
Confidential screening of applications will continue until the position is filled.
The skills and qualifications that you possess will include:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, or a closely related field of study required or an equivalent combination of certification, education, and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
- A Master’s degree and/or HR certification is preferred
- 7 - 10 years’ experience as a human resource professional in progressively responsible positions, preferably with supervisor experience.
- Expertise in talent acquisition, on-boarding and HRIS systems with demonstrated capability to quickly learn new HR systems
- Hands-on practitioner who works collaboratively to build and execute a technology road map that balances the strategic and operational needs of HR, leveraging a deep understanding of cutting- edge HR process and systems.
- Demonstrated competency in the development and implementation of innovative systems, initiates, strategies, policies and process improvements
- Dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Expertise in regulatory compliance across the full spectrum on HR functions
- Ease with public speaking
- Proficient in social media marketing.
