Job Summary
Indiana University South Bend is seeking an energetic, results-driven HR Professional to serve as a strategic business partner, aligning HR practices to support the campus's strategic goals.
Departmental-Specific Responsibilities
- Serves as a trusted strategic partner to assigned academic and administrative units, providing guidance on workforce planning, employee relations, talent management, and organizational effectiveness.
- Builds strong relationships with campus leaders, faculty, and staff to understand operational goals, workforce challenges, and emerging needs.
- Partners with departments to develop and execute recruiting and staffing strategies aligned with campus priorities and budget considerations.
- Provides expert consultation on employee relations matters, performance management, policy interpretation, and corrective action, ensuring consistency and compliance with university policies and employment laws.
- Coaches and advises supervisors and managers on leadership practices, performance feedback, change management, and conflict resolution.
- Collaborates with campus and university HR Centers of Excellence to support compensation planning, equity analysis, and retention strategies.
- Contributes to the design and delivery of HR-led programs related to training, development, career mobility, and employee engagement.
- Supports a culture of inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement across the campus.
General Responsibilities
- Utilizes and applies in-depth academic and staff HR body of knowledge and skills to provide tactical guidance for HR related matters like salary administration, hiring, training, and policy interpretation.
- Resolves and provides solutions for more complex employee relations issues with continued partnership, counsel, and support from Centers of Expertise (COEs).
- Provides HR support for academic personnel processes, including administration for academic leaves, policy review and consultation, visa-processing coordination, and facilitation of promotion and tenure procedures.
- Collaborates with other business partners and managers to improve and build effective relationships to improve employee engagement and identify "high priority" retention needs.
- Coaches leaders to help determine best solutions regarding policy interpretation, performance issues, workforce planning, change management, conflict resolution to ensure alignment and consistency across the university.
- Provides HR consulting and problem-solving solutions on issues to leaders and managers.
- Collaborates with HR COEs to roll out and support university-wide initiatives, ensure client's needs are understood and met, and deliver change management interventions.
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