Senior HR Generalist

Experience Champaign Urbana; Urbana (IL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Experience Champaign Urbana seeks a skilled HR professional to oversee Labor Employee Relations, Leave Management, Recruitment, HR Compliance, and Appointments. The role provides guidance to supervisors on performance and disciplinary actions, interprets collective bargaining language, and supports negotiation processes when needed.

Responsibilities also include resolving conflicts, ensuring accurate HR data, and developing guidelines to improve leave policies and hiring practices in alignment

Qualifications

• HR knowledge and experience preferred.
• Familiarity with labor relations, leave policies, recruitment, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Guides supervisors on performance management and issues under supervision.
• Interprets collective bargaining language and recommends corrective actions.
• May participate in contract negotiations occasionally.
• Resolves supervisor/employee conflicts with consultations as needed.
• Facilitates accommodations and conflict resolution efforts.

Job description

Duties Responsibilities Labor Employee Relations

• Provides guidance to supervisors on performance management practices and issues.
• Recommends interpretation of collective bargaining agreement language and corrective actions to performance issues under administrative supervision.
• May infrequently participate in contract negotiations.
• May serve as a resource to lower-level staff.
• Facilitates accommodations and conflict resolution efforts.
• Resolves supervisor/employee conflicts requiring intervention or consultation with either party.

Leave Management

• Responsible for overall unit management of FMLA, PLFA, or other managed leave categories.
• Develop and implement related guidelines and process improvements.
• Counsel and resolve complex or sensitive issues related to leave.
• Informs and advises staff on complex regulations/policies relating to leave usage.

Recruitment Talent Acquisition

• Responsible for independently coordinating search, hiring, and onboarding processes for roles at all levels in all employment categories applicable to the unit, including recruitment efforts.
• Communicate with applicants and new hires, facilitating interview, hiring, and onboarding processes including work authorization.
• Communicate and implement search procedures aligned with best practices and compliance needs, advising search committees and hiring managers.
• Contribute to overall hiring plans, providing guidance on search strategies aligned with talent needs (e.g., multi-level searches, search timing).
• Responsible for aligning recruitment and advertising efforts with unit and university branding efforts.

HR Compliance Policy

• Ensures adherence to HR policies and legal requirements through tracking, training, and internal reviews.
• May develop and implement internal compliance strategies.
• Provides expertise on HR policies and legal requirements.

Appointments Management

• Responsible for managing employee appointments and records, and the interaction between multiple types of appointments to result in appropriate pay and employee status information.
• Enters routine and non-routine data, pulls routine and non-routine reports, developing new reports as needed.
• Ensures accuracy of input data, resolves any discrepancies, considers long-term data retention and data integrity.
• Participate in appropriate systems testing and provides feedback.