Senior Director, Employee Relations and Talent Acquisition
About the role
The Senior Director of Human Resources serves as the executive Human Resources leader for Aspire Public Schools' Bay Area Region, responsible for developing and executing the region's comprehensive people strategy in alignment with organizational priorities, instructional goals, and student outcomes.
Responsibilities
Develop and lead the Bay Area People Strategy aligned to Aspire's organizational priorities and instructional vision.
Partner with the Superintendent, Executive Director, Head of Human Resources and the Senior Director of Employee Services, to align human capital investments with regional strategic priorities.
Design organizational structures and workforce strategies that strengthen school performance and long-term sustainability.
Lead long-term workforce planning, succession planning, leadership pipelines, and organizational design.
Utilize workforce analytics to proactively identify organizational trends and recommend strategic actions.
Lead cross-functional organizational change initiatives, including restructuring, school transitions, leadership changes, and organizational growth.
Establish annual people priorities and measurable outcomes for the region.
Ensure regional HR strategy aligns with enterprise Human Resources priorities while responding to unique Bay Area needs.
Design and continuously improve regional employee relations systems and standard operating procedures that promote consistency, compliance, and timely resolution of employee concerns.
Build leadership capacity by coaching principals and regional leaders to confidently navigate performance management, employee coaching, conflict resolution, documentation, and disciplinary action.
Create practical tools, decision trees, templates, and resources that enable leaders to independently manage routine employee relations matters.
Identify recurring employee relations trends and redesign systems to reduce risk and improve organizational effectiveness.
Monitor consistency of employee relations practices across schools while balancing legal compliance and leadership autonomy.
Lead professional learning for leaders related to employee relations, California employment law, documentation, investigations, and performance management.
Lead comprehensive regional talent strategy from workforce planning through onboarding and retention.
Lead the Bay Employee Relations and Talent team which includes Talent Recruiter, Credentials Analyst, and Director of Teacher Residency & Rivet.
Supervise members of the Bay Employee Relations and Talent team.
Develop proactive recruitment strategies aligned to projected staffing needs.
Build diverse leadership and teacher pipelines.
Design retention strategies informed by workforce analytics.
Oversee executive, principal, regional, certificated, and classified hiring.
Improve hiring systems and candidate experience.
Partner with leaders on succession planning and internal talent development.
Develop metrics to evaluate effectiveness of recruitment and retention strategies.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, or a related field.
Master's degree preferred in Human Resources, Organizational Leadership, Business Administration, Education, or related field.
7+ years of progressively responsible experience in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, or related fields.
3+ years of leadership experience managing people, programs, and organizational initiatives.
Demonstrated experience conducting workplace investigations and/or resolving complex employee relations matters.
Experience leading recruitment strategies, workforce planning, and retention initiatives.
Experience supporting K–12 education organizations strongly preferred.
Competencies
Demonstrated ability to lead recruitment function in a fast paced, customer centric environment.
Experience recruiting within education, public sector, nonprofit, healthcare, or similarly complex organizations.
Demonstrated commitment to people-first strategies and approaches.
Self-driven with superior organizational skills, integrity and great follow through; able to lead multiple projects and still meet all deadlines.
Ability to think strategically and tactically.
Strong verbal, written communication and presentation skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills; proven experience working and collaborating well with various levels.
Very proficient in Microsoft Outlook/Word/Excel/ PowerPoint.
Ability to educate others and build trust.
Deep knowledge of California employment law, employee relations practices, and talent acquisition strategies.
Strong investigation, conflict resolution, and mediation skills.
Ability to build relationships quickly.
Understand and use relationships to drive effective collaboration with peers and stakeholders.
Comfort working with data, conducting analysis, seeking insights and making inferences from data to drive future planning.
Curious, innovative, creative and constantly looking for ways to improve.
Exemplifies Aspire values and high levels of integrity and humility, and interest in Aspire Public Schools mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and the code of ethical behavior.