Human Resources Manager – Laramie, WY

Public Sector HR Association; Laramie (WY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Laramie seeks a Human Resources Manager to lead the HR department and oversee employee relations, recruitment and staffing, training and development, performance management, and day-to-day service delivery.

Reporting to the Human Resources Director, the role requires strategic operation across HR functions, building a stronger, staffed team in a municipal public-sector environment while ensuring compliance and high-quality public service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, public administration, organizational management, or a closely related field.
• Seven years of progressively responsible professional HR experience across multiple disciplines (employee relations, recruitment, policy administration, benefits, compensation/classification, or HR operations).
• Experience providing work direction, project leadership, or staff supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership across the full range of HR functions.
• Oversee employee relations, recruitment and staffing, training and development, performance management, and day‑to‑day HR service delivery.
• Ensure compliance with employment law and HR policies while resolving routine and moderately complex matters.

Skills

HR management experience

Staff supervision

Work direction / project leadership

Public-sector HR experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR / Business / Public Administration / Organizational Management

Job description

Located in southeastern Wyoming, Laramie is a vibrant small city of 32,284 residents that blends small-city affordability, university-town culture, and exceptional outdoor recreation. Home to the University of Wyoming, Laramie sits at 7,165 feet elevation along Interstate 80, about 50 miles west of Cheyenne. The city offers a strong sense of community pride with a full calendar of cultural events, historic downtown on the National Register, and easy access to the Snowy Range Mountains, Vedauwoo rock formations, and Medicine Bow National Forest for hiking, fishing, skiing, and mountain biking.

The City of Laramie operates under a council-manager form of government with a nine-member City Council and approximately 290 employees. The Human Resources Department partners with the City Manager and all departments to ensure HR programs and services are administered consistently, efficiently, and equitably. The department is guided by the City’s mission: Building our community through Respect, Integrity, Teamwork, and Stewardship.

Reporting to the Human Resources Director, the Human Resources Manager serves as the department’s senior operational leader, directly supervising two HR professionals while managing employee relations, recruitment and staffing, training and development, performance management, and day-to-day HR service delivery.

The successful candidate will provide operational leadership across the full range of HR functions while helping stabilize a currently short-staffed department and building a stronger, more cohesive team. They will possess considerable knowledge of HR operations, employee relations, recruitment, performance management, and employment law, along with the independent judgment to resolve routine and moderately complex matters and the good sense to know when to escape.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, public administration, organizational management, or a closely related field
• Seven years of progressively responsible professional HR experience across multiple disciplines, including employee relations, recruitment, policy administration, benefits, compensation/classification, or HR operations
• Experience providing work direction, project leadership, or staff supervision
• Equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three or more years of broad generalist HR experience; five years of supervisory or HR-management experience
• Municipal or other public-sector HR experience
• SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, IPMA-CP, or a comparable HR certification (may be obtained within one year of appointment if not already held)
• Experience conducting workplace investigations, and with HRIS administration, compensation, classification, and process improvement

The salary range for this position is $80,293 – $120,161 annually, DOQ/E.

Larry Gilley, Senior Vice President, Executive Recruitment