Senior HR Partner - Classification & Compensation

Clark County Washington; Dickinson (ND); On-site; USD 75,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Clark County in Washington seeks an experienced Human Resources Representative/Senior focused on classification and compensation to join a team that values collaboration, integrity, and public service. The role requires strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills in a fast-paced environment.

Open until filled with first review date soon after posting. The position will support job classification studies, compensation surveys, recruitment, performance management, and HR

Qualifications

• Equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in human resources, public administration, business administration, psychology or organizational behavior, or a related field.
• Two (2) to four (4) years of professional-level human resources experience with at least one (1) year of labor relations experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of employment law, labor relations, and HR best practices.
• Experience working with unionized workforces and interpreting collective bargaining agreements.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Senior placement: At least five (5) years of progressively responsible HR experience.
• Preferred: Experience with classification and compensation studies.
• HR certification (e.g., SHRM-CP/SCP, PHR/SPHR, highly desired).
• Intermediate to Advanced Competency with Workday or other similar enterprise HRIS platforms.
• Additional graduate-level coursework or a degree is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Job Classification: Conducts classification studies in response to department or union requests or indications of need for review and revision. Interviews or observes incumbents and/or reviews written materials relevant to the study including position questionnaires.
• Determines proper allocation of positions to existing classifications or identifies the need for new classifications or revision.
• Prepares classification reports and assists departments in drafting staff reports which document and justify the recommendations for approval by the appropriate authorities.
• Compensation: Assisting in ensuring that the County’s compensation program is competitive, cost-effective and equitable in relation to internal comparisons, external comparisons and contemporary compensation practices and techniques. Develops and conducts salary surveys to determine appropriate market-based compensation.
• Conducts job evaluations and analysis to resolve internal equity issues and assists in the development and administration of a wide variety of internal pay practices.
• Recruitment and Selection: Assists and advises departments in recruitment and selection of employees. Develops or assists in the development of recruitment strategies and materials, selection instruments and techniques, qualifications sought, selection criteria, scoring techniques, participants in the process and frequently serves as a rating participant in some or all elements of the process.
• Performance Management: Advises department managers in a variety of sensitive and legally complex employee relations and discipline issues. Areas of involvement include, but not limited to, employee performance, discrimination and EEO issues, sexual harassment, wage and hour violations, wrongful termination claims and other areas requiring both knowledge of employment law and expertise in organizational behavior.
• Represents County in unemployment insurance hearings.
• Training: Develops and presents (or assists in) a variety of training programs to management and employees in a range of human resource areas, including, but not limited to, performance management, equal opportunity, diversity, sexual harassment and others.
• Policies and Practices: Provides interpretation and guidance to managers and employees on legal and policy matters. Processes and approves a variety of personnel actions, forms and reports. Analyzes legislation and regulations to determine effect on personnel programs and services; completes various government reports.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Skills

HR experience

Labor relations

Employment law

Unionized workforce

Interpersonal skills

Conflict resolution

Workday proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR-related field

Tools

Workday

Job description

Clark County in Washington seeks an experienced Human Resources Representative/Senior focused on classification and compensation to join a team that values collaboration, integrity, and public service. The role requires strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills in a fast-paced environment.

Open until filled with first review date soon after posting. The position will support job classification studies, compensation surveys, recruitment, performance management, and HR