Labor Relations Advocate
for section headings (e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We must include a section only when posting has real specific content. So we need to decide which sections to include.
We have:
- About the role: maybe "About The Position Type" and description of role. Could be "About the role". Provide prose.
- Responsibilities: "In This Position, You Will" list of duties. Use
- .
- Requirements: "Need to have:" list of qualifications (education/experience combos). Could be Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe "Nice To Have Experience:" could be Skills or Preferred Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe we can combine nice-to-have as Skills.
- Benefits: we have referral bonus $500, also mention benefits generally? The posting mentions "benefit earning position", "competitive benefits". Not specific. We should not create Benefits section unless specific content. There's referral bonus, but that's not a benefit per se; it's a referral bonus. Could be included in a short paragraph maybe under "About the role" or separate? The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. Referral bonus is specific: $500 referral bonus for current employees who refer a candidate hired. That's a specific benefit? Might be considered a benefit but it's a referral incentive. Could be placed in a
under "About the role" or separate "Benefits" if we want. But we need to avoid filler. Since we have specific content, we could create a Benefits section with that info. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine referral bonus into About the role or a general "Benefits" short paragraph.
- Pay: not specified. No pay info. So we should NOT create Pay section.
- Schedule: location/hours: hybrid, location, flexible hours within core business hours, Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm, must reside in MN/WI. That's schedule info. So we can create a Schedule section with that info.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills (nice-to-have), Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading for "Labor Relations Advocate". Use headings for sections.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details like: six-person office, negotiates and administers 18 CBAs across seven lines of business, responsible for at least one line of business, work with HR professionals, managers, supervisors, union reps, maintain productive attitude, dedication to positive labor-management relationship. Also mention referral bonus. Location/hours details. About the position type: full-time, benefit earning, internally classified as Labor Relations Advocate. Note about cover letter and resume (application instructions) - we must remove. So we should not include that note.
In This Position, You Will: list duties (administer labor contracts, provide advice, communicate rights, provide training, manage grievance process, prepare legal briefs, participate in bargaining strategy, assist coordination of info requests, assist management of department budget). Need to keep each bullet.
Need to have: list of qualification options (8+ years experience; OR bachelor's + 4+ years; OR master's + 2+ years; OR law degree + 1+ years). Must preserve exactly.
Nice To Have Experience: list of items (experience in union represented workforce; labor negotiations; preparing/giving presentations; leading/facilitating groups; administering/interpreting labor contract language; understanding principles/practices of successful labor-management relations, including MN statutes; mathematical skills to understand compensation data and analyze costing, ability to create/utilize Excel spreadsheets; exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to negotiate contracts and present at grievance hearings independently). Keep each bullet.
About The Department: description of Labor Relations department (five members, negotiate/administer/interpret CBAs, provide advice, support/training, administer grievance process, facilitate Labor/Management meetings and Meet and Confers). Keep.
About Hennepin County: description of county, mission, vision, benefits, etc. Keep.
We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions (cover letter/resume note, video for application best practices, background check, contact Roberta.Arpinar, etc). Also remove "Watch this video for application best practices and tips." Also remove "Invitations to interview will be based upon an assessment of education and experience. Final candidates may be required to complete a background check." Also remove "If You Have Any Questions, Please Contact Roberta.Arpinar Roberta.Arpinar@hennepin.us". Also remove "This posting may be used to fill current and future vacancies." Also remove "Current Hennepin County employees who refer a candidate hired into an open competitive position may be eligible for a $500 referral bonus. For more information visit employee referral program ." We need to keep the referral bonus info but remove the link text "For more information visit employee referral program ." So we keep the bonus sentence but drop the link.
Also remove "New Employee Orientation (NEO) for all new benefit-earning employees is in-person in downtown Minneapolis. Details about NEO will be provided upon hire." That's not boilerplate? It's specific info about NEO. Could be considered part of schedule/onboarding. Might keep as part of Schedule or About the role. It's substantive. We'll keep.
Also remove "Location and hours: This position is hybrid and will be performed on-site at 625 South 4th Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55487, at other county locations, and remote as job duties require. Work hours will be flexible within core business hours, typically Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. While this position is designated as hybrid, based on current requirements hires must reside in or relocate to Minnesota or Wisconsin." Keep.
Also remove "About The Position Type This position is a full-time, benefit earning position. This position is internally classified as a Labor Relations Advocate. To view the job classification specification, click here ." We need to keep the info about full-time, benefit earning, classification. Remove the "To view the job classification specification, click here ." (that's a link). So keep the sentence about full-time benefit earning and classification.
Also remove "Note: You must attach a cover letter and resume with your application materials to be considered for this position." (application instruction) remove.
Now we need to format.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
... prose ...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Skills
- ...
...
Schedule
... location/hours ...
Potentially also include a About the department
and About Hennepin County
if we want. But we prefer few substantive sections. However the department and county descriptions are substantive. Could we merge them into About the role? Might be too long. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Having sections for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Schedule, About the department, About Hennepin County would be many sections (7). Could we combine About the department and About Hennepin County into About the role? Might be okay but we risk losing detail. However we must preserve ALL substantive information. We can include them as subsections under About the role using paragraphs, not separate headings. That would satisfy preserving info while reducing number of headings.
Thus we can have:
- About the role (includes description of role, position type, department description, county description, referral bonus maybe)
- Responsibilities
- Requirements
- Skills
- Schedule
That's 5 sections.
Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. So heading "About the role" is fine.
Now craft the prose for About the role:
We need to include:
- Hennepin County seeking a Labor Relations Advocate to join Labor Relations team.
- This position is part of a six-person office that negotiates and administers 18 collective bargaining agreements across seven lines of business.
- As an experienced advocate, you will have responsibility for at least one line of business, working directly with HR professionals assigned to that line of business as well as managers, supervisors, and union reps.
- This job is a match if you maintain a productive attitude in midst of conflict and challenge and will be dedicated to maintaining longstanding positive labor-management relationship.
- Current Hennepin County employees who refer a candidate hired into an open competitive position may be eligible for a $500 referral bonus. (We keep that sentence.)
- About The Position Type: full-time, benefit earning position. Internally classified as a Labor Relations Advocate.
- New Employee Orientation (NEO) for all new benefit-earning employees is in-person in downtown Minneapolis. Details about NEO will be provided upon hire.
- About The Department: Labor Relations promotes stable, productive, cooperative relationships between county and its union represented employees. The five members work collaboratively across county in negotiating, administering, interpreting CBAs with all labor unions; providing management with sound advice re labor contract interpretation/application; providing support/training to supervisors re discipline, grievances, managing in unionized environment; administering grievance process; facilitating Labor/Management meetings and Meet and Confers.
- About Hennepin County: largest county govt org in MN; employees work to improve health, safety, quality of life; mission to serve residents through transformative services that eliminate disparities, inequities, create opportunity; vision of community where all people healthy, valued, thrive; employees receive competitive benefits and positive workplace culture; includes meaningful work, competitive pay, work-life balance, variety of benefits, opportunities to grow; commitment to diversity and elimination of disparities fundamental; position may have access to systems containing HIPAA data.
We must keep all that info. Ensure we don't add fluff.
Now Responsibilities: list from "In This Position, You Will". We'll copy each sentence as bullet.
List:
- Administer labor contracts and agreements, including providing day to day advice and counsel to Human Resources Business Partners and county departments regarding contract language, disciplinary decisions and other employment matters associated with union-represented employees.
- Communicate with managers, supervisors, and employees regarding their rights and responsibilities under bargaining agreements, applicable labor laws, and Human Resources Rules; provide manager/supervisor training regarding managing successfully in a unionized environment as well as participating in regular Meet and Confer sessions.
- Manage the grievance process for assigned line of business up to and including preparing and presenting cases in grievance and interest arbitration, administrative and mediation proceedings and representation elections.
- Prepare legal briefs and other documents for arbitration or administrative proceedings.
- Participate in the development of bargaining strategy including analysis of salary and benefit data and serve as the chief spokesperson for assigned labor contract negotiations.
- Assist in the coordination and management of all information requests related to grievances and negotiations including interfacing with the compensation team as we continue to refine our processes.
- Assist in the management of the department budget in conjunction with the Department Director.
Now Requirements: list from "Need to have:" with options.
We need to preserve the exact phrasing:
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for prose. We must include a section only when posting has real specific content. So we need to decide which sections to include. We have: - About the role: maybe "About The Position Type" and description of role. Could be "About the role". Provide prose. - Responsibilities: "In This Position, You Will" list of duties. Use
- .
- Requirements: "Need to have:" list of qualifications (education/experience combos). Could be Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe "Nice To Have Experience:" could be Skills or Preferred Qualifications.
- Skills: maybe we can combine nice-to-have as Skills.
- Benefits: we have referral bonus $500, also mention benefits generally? The posting mentions "benefit earning position", "competitive benefits". Not specific. We should not create Benefits section unless specific content. There's referral bonus, but that's not a benefit per se; it's a referral bonus. Could be included in a short paragraph maybe under "About the role" or separate? The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. Referral bonus is specific: $500 referral bonus for current employees who refer a candidate hired. That's a specific benefit? Might be considered a benefit but it's a referral incentive. Could be placed in a
under "About the role" or separate "Benefits" if we want. But we need to avoid filler. Since we have specific content, we could create a Benefits section with that info. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe combine referral bonus into About the role or a general "Benefits" short paragraph. - Pay: not specified. No pay info. So we should NOT create Pay section. - Schedule: location/hours: hybrid, location, flexible hours within core business hours, Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm, must reside in MN/WI. That's schedule info. So we can create a Schedule section with that info. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills (nice-to-have), Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading for "Labor Relations Advocate". Use headings for sections. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details like: six-person office, negotiates and administers 18 CBAs across seven lines of business, responsible for at least one line of business, work with HR professionals, managers, supervisors, union reps, maintain productive attitude, dedication to positive labor-management relationship. Also mention referral bonus. Location/hours details. About the position type: full-time, benefit earning, internally classified as Labor Relations Advocate. Note about cover letter and resume (application instructions) - we must remove. So we should not include that note. In This Position, You Will: list duties (administer labor contracts, provide advice, communicate rights, provide training, manage grievance process, prepare legal briefs, participate in bargaining strategy, assist coordination of info requests, assist management of department budget). Need to keep each bullet. Need to have: list of qualification options (8+ years experience; OR bachelor's + 4+ years; OR master's + 2+ years; OR law degree + 1+ years). Must preserve exactly. Nice To Have Experience: list of items (experience in union represented workforce; labor negotiations; preparing/giving presentations; leading/facilitating groups; administering/interpreting labor contract language; understanding principles/practices of successful labor-management relations, including MN statutes; mathematical skills to understand compensation data and analyze costing, ability to create/utilize Excel spreadsheets; exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to negotiate contracts and present at grievance hearings independently). Keep each bullet. About The Department: description of Labor Relations department (five members, negotiate/administer/interpret CBAs, provide advice, support/training, administer grievance process, facilitate Labor/Management meetings and Meet and Confers). Keep. About Hennepin County: description of county, mission, vision, benefits, etc. Keep. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions (cover letter/resume note, video for application best practices, background check, contact Roberta.Arpinar, etc). Also remove "Watch this video for application best practices and tips." Also remove "Invitations to interview will be based upon an assessment of education and experience. Final candidates may be required to complete a background check." Also remove "If You Have Any Questions, Please Contact Roberta.Arpinar Roberta.Arpinar@hennepin.us". Also remove "This posting may be used to fill current and future vacancies." Also remove "Current Hennepin County employees who refer a candidate hired into an open competitive position may be eligible for a $500 referral bonus. For more information visit employee referral program ." We need to keep the referral bonus info but remove the link text "For more information visit employee referral program ." So we keep the bonus sentence but drop the link. Also remove "New Employee Orientation (NEO) for all new benefit-earning employees is in-person in downtown Minneapolis. Details about NEO will be provided upon hire." That's not boilerplate? It's specific info about NEO. Could be considered part of schedule/onboarding. Might keep as part of Schedule or About the role. It's substantive. We'll keep. Also remove "Location and hours: This position is hybrid and will be performed on-site at 625 South 4th Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55487, at other county locations, and remote as job duties require. Work hours will be flexible within core business hours, typically Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. While this position is designated as hybrid, based on current requirements hires must reside in or relocate to Minnesota or Wisconsin." Keep. Also remove "About The Position Type This position is a full-time, benefit earning position. This position is internally classified as a Labor Relations Advocate. To view the job classification specification, click here ." We need to keep the info about full-time, benefit earning, classification. Remove the "To view the job classification specification, click here ." (that's a link). So keep the sentence about full-time benefit earning and classification. Also remove "Note: You must attach a cover letter and resume with your application materials to be considered for this position." (application instruction) remove. Now we need to format. We'll produce something like:
About the role
... prose ...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Skills
- ... ...
Schedule
... location/hours ...
Potentially also include aAbout the department
andAbout Hennepin County
if we want. But we prefer few substantive sections. However the department and county descriptions are substantive. Could we merge them into About the role? Might be too long. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Having sections for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Schedule, About the department, About Hennepin County would be many sections (7). Could we combine About the department and About Hennepin County into About the role? Might be okay but we risk losing detail. However we must preserve ALL substantive information. We can include them as subsections under About the role using paragraphs, not separate headings. That would satisfy preserving info while reducing number of headings. Thus we can have: - About the role (includes description of role, position type, department description, county description, referral bonus maybe) - Responsibilities - Requirements - Skills - Schedule That's 5 sections. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. So heading "About the role" is fine. Now craft the prose for About the role: We need to include: - Hennepin County seeking a Labor Relations Advocate to join Labor Relations team. - This position is part of a six-person office that negotiates and administers 18 collective bargaining agreements across seven lines of business. - As an experienced advocate, you will have responsibility for at least one line of business, working directly with HR professionals assigned to that line of business as well as managers, supervisors, and union reps. - This job is a match if you maintain a productive attitude in midst of conflict and challenge and will be dedicated to maintaining longstanding positive labor-management relationship. - Current Hennepin County employees who refer a candidate hired into an open competitive position may be eligible for a $500 referral bonus. (We keep that sentence.) - About The Position Type: full-time, benefit earning position. Internally classified as a Labor Relations Advocate. - New Employee Orientation (NEO) for all new benefit-earning employees is in-person in downtown Minneapolis. Details about NEO will be provided upon hire. - About The Department: Labor Relations promotes stable, productive, cooperative relationships between county and its union represented employees. The five members work collaboratively across county in negotiating, administering, interpreting CBAs with all labor unions; providing management with sound advice re labor contract interpretation/application; providing support/training to supervisors re discipline, grievances, managing in unionized environment; administering grievance process; facilitating Labor/Management meetings and Meet and Confers. - About Hennepin County: largest county govt org in MN; employees work to improve health, safety, quality of life; mission to serve residents through transformative services that eliminate disparities, inequities, create opportunity; vision of community where all people healthy, valued, thrive; employees receive competitive benefits and positive workplace culture; includes meaningful work, competitive pay, work-life balance, variety of benefits, opportunities to grow; commitment to diversity and elimination of disparities fundamental; position may have access to systems containing HIPAA data. We must keep all that info. Ensure we don't add fluff. Now Responsibilities: list from "In This Position, You Will". We'll copy each sentence as bullet. List: - Administer labor contracts and agreements, including providing day to day advice and counsel to Human Resources Business Partners and county departments regarding contract language, disciplinary decisions and other employment matters associated with union-represented employees. - Communicate with managers, supervisors, and employees regarding their rights and responsibilities under bargaining agreements, applicable labor laws, and Human Resources Rules; provide manager/supervisor training regarding managing successfully in a unionized environment as well as participating in regular Meet and Confer sessions. - Manage the grievance process for assigned line of business up to and including preparing and presenting cases in grievance and interest arbitration, administrative and mediation proceedings and representation elections. - Prepare legal briefs and other documents for arbitration or administrative proceedings. - Participate in the development of bargaining strategy including analysis of salary and benefit data and serve as the chief spokesperson for assigned labor contract negotiations. - Assist in the coordination and management of all information requests related to grievances and negotiations including interfacing with the compensation team as we continue to refine our processes. - Assist in the management of the department budget in conjunction with the Department Director. Now Requirements: list from "Need to have:" with options. We need to preserve the exact phrasing: -