AVP HR University Hospitals

UCSF Health, AG; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

UCSF Health seeks an experienced AVP, Human Resources Business Partner to guide senior executives on workforce planning, talent management and organizational effectiveness. You will lead complex, high-impact HR initiatives across the enterprise with autonomy and strategic influence.

Preferred qualifications include HRBP certification and executive coaching credentials. This role emphasizes data-driven decision making, strategic partnering, and shaping organizational culture within a leading

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible strategic human resources experience, or an equivalent combination of training, experience, and demonstrated success leading complex strategic HR and workforce initiatives.
• Expert knowledge of organizational processes, protocols and procedures, with demonstrated ability to apply institutional knowledge to complex and sensitive workforce matters.
• Demonstrated advanced strategic thinking and executive consulting skills, including the ability to frame systemic issues, evaluate complex options and tradeoffs, and guide senior leaders toward workable strategies and solutions.
• Expert knowledge of human resources strategy and practices, including talent management, workforce planning, organization effectiveness, employment practices, labor and employee relations, compensation, learning and development, and related workforce programs.
• Advanced business acumen and demonstrated ability to connect business, operational and financial priorities to enterprise workforce and talent strategies.
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving and evidence-based decision-making skills, including the ability to integrate complex workforce and business data, develop insights, and formulate recommendations with organization-wide impact.
• Advanced consulting, relationship-building, negotiation and influencing skills; demonstrated ability to build alignment and achieve solutions among senior stakeholders across complex organizational boundaries.
• Highly developed written, verbal and presentation skills for advising executives, communicating complex or sensitive information, and influencing sustained organizational change.
• Demonstrated ability to lead highly significant, complex engagements and enterprise initiatives from strategy through implementation, including work with limited precedent and substantial consequences of success or failure.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic guidance to senior executives on workforce planning and organizational development.
• Lead enterprise workforce strategies that align with business goals and culture.
• Advise on highly complex HR matters with organization-wide impact and cross-functional coordination.
• Collaborate with HR centers of expertise to deliver integrated workforce solutions.

Skills

Strategic HR experience

Executive consulting

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Change leadership

Talent management

Workforce planning

Organization effectiveness

Employment practices

Negotiation

Influencing

Communication

Presentation skills

Executive coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in related area

HR Business Partner Certification

Advanced degree in related field (preferred)

Executive Coaching Certification

Tools

HR information systems

Job description

Job Description

Job Function Summary:

Involves providing strategic guidance, advising and decision making on behalf of an executive (generally defined as Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, or Vice Provost), relative to strategic academic and resource planning, short and long-range policy development, communications and high level analyses of new program development. In addition to executive advising, may also manage an independent program and / or professional staff engaged in a range of administrative functions.

Generic Scope

Recognized organization-wide expert. Has significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization; these projects carry substantial consequences of success or failure. Directs programs with organization-wide impact (or may have impact beyond the University) that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources. Significant barriers to entry exist at this level.

Custom Scope

The Assistant Vice President, Human Resources Business Partner (AVP) serves as a lead enterprise workforce strategist and trusted advisor to senior executives responsible for highly complex, diverse, and mission-critical areas of UCSF Health. The AVP provides strategic guidance on the workforce, organization, leadership, and talent implications of business strategy and has broad influence in shaping and advancing solutions to systemic workforce issues with organization-wide impact. The AVP develops and drives comprehensive, business-aligned, outcomes-based talent and workforce strategies that strengthen organizational performance, leadership capability, talent pipelines, workforce productivity, and culture.

The AVP applies expert human resources, talent management, organization effectiveness, workforce planning, and change leadership expertise to advise on highly complex and sensitive matters with substantial organizational consequences. Working with significant autonomy and limited precedent, the AVP integrates data, business context, institutional knowledge, and external trends to identify emerging workforce risks and opportunities, formulate strategies, and influence executive decision making. The AVP represents Human Resources on enterprise initiatives and high-level cross-functional work, leads resolution of complex issues across organizational boundaries, and coordinates HR centers of expertise to deliver integrated solutions aligned with UCSF priorities, culture, and values. The AVP may lead critical enterprise initiatives and provide strategic direction and guidance to other HR professionals.

Qualifications

Required:

• - Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• - 10+ years of progressively responsible strategic human resources experience, or an equivalent combination of training, experience, and demonstrated success leading complex strategic HR and workforce initiatives.
• - Expert knowledge of organizational processes, protocols and procedures, with demonstrated ability to apply institutional knowledge to complex and sensitive workforce matters.
• - Demonstrated advanced strategic thinking and executive consulting skills, including the ability to frame systemic issues, evaluate complex options and tradeoffs, and guide senior leaders toward workable strategies and solutions.
• - Expert knowledge of human resources strategy and practices, including talent management, workforce planning, organization effectiveness, employment practices, labor and employee relations, compensation, learning and development, and related workforce programs.
• - Advanced business acumen and demonstrated ability to connect business, operational and financial priorities to enterprise workforce and talent strategies.
• - Advanced analytical, problem-solving and evidence-based decision-making skills, including the ability to integrate complex workforce and business data, develop insights, and formulate recommendations with organization-wide impact.
• - Advanced consulting, relationship-building, negotiation and influencing skills; demonstrated ability to build alignment and achieve solutions among senior stakeholders across complex organizational boundaries.
• - Highly developed written, verbal and presentation skills for advising executives, communicating complex or sensitive information, and influencing sustained organizational change.
• - Demonstrated ability to lead highly significant, complex engagements and enterprise initiatives from strategy through implementation, including work with limited precedent and substantial consequences of success or failure.
• - Highly skilled in navigating complex organizations and operating with a high degree of autonomy, discretion and judgment in difficult, sensitive or volatile situations.
• - Expert knowledge of HR information systems and related business technology, with the ability to use systems and data to support workforce analysis and strategic decision making.

Preferred:

• - Strategic human resources experience in a complex healthcare, academic health, higher education, or similarly complex environment
• - Advanced degree in human resources, business, organizational development, healthcare administration, or related field.
• - HR Business Partner Certification.
• - Executive Coaching Certification.