Sr Human Resources Business Partner

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Williamsburg (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation seeks an HR Business Partner to align business strategies with employees and management across assigned areas. The role will act as a strategic partner to leadership and will coordinate with Centers of Excellence to ensure timely HR deliverables.

You will assess HR-related needs and deliver value-added services that support organizational initiatives. The successful candidate will develop leadership presence, influence change, and work closely with leaders on

Qualifications

• HR leadership, strategic partnership capabilities.
• Experience aligning HR initiatives with business goals.
• Knowledge of learning and development, talent management, succession planning, and total rewards.

Responsibilities

• Understand business initiatives affecting assigned areas and initiatives impacting groups.
• Evaluate trends and metrics and provide direction on solutions.
• Ensure people, processes, programs, and systems align with CW’s mission and objectives.
• Consult with leadership to provide HR guidance and implement plans based on operational drivers.
• Develop leadership presence and influence change management within units.
• Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence on learning, talent management, succession planning, and total rewards.
• Manage and resolve employee relations issues with objective investigations and appropriate escalation when warranted.
• Identify people gaps with leaders and facilitate change processes to mitigate risk.
• Interpret HR policies and guidelines and recommend changes to support business needs.
• Collaborate across HR to share best practices and participate in initiatives.

Job description

Who We Are

Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is “that the future may learn from the past” through preserving and restoring 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation.

Who We Are

Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is “that the future may learn from the past” through preserving and restoring 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation. Today, Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the U.S. The Historic Area is the 301-acre restored colonial capital with 89 original buildings and 525 buildings reconstructed to how they appeared in the 18th century through extensive archaeological, architectural, and documentary research. The Historic Area is staffed by highly trained, historically dressed interpreters and expert tradespeople who bring the 18th century to life. The Foundation also owns and operates two world-class museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, The Bob and Marion Wilson Teacher Institute, and a renowned research library, the John D Rockefeller Jr Library. Additionally, Colonial Williamsburg is home to five world class accommodations at the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg Lodge Autograph Collection, the Griffin Hotel, the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotels and Suites and the unique Colonial Houses in the Historical Area. Visitors may also indulge in food and drink at our many on site restaurants and taverns that blend a historically inspired dining experience with today’s evolved tastes. Each year over 5 million people visit Williamsburg and another 20 million engage with us digitally.

About The Position

The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) supports the alignment of business initiatives with employees and management for their assigned areas. The HRBP will serve as a strategic partner to leadership in the line of business they serve and will assess and anticipate HR-related needs and deliver value-added service that addresses organizational initiatives. Additionally, the role will leverage partnerships across the Centers of Excellence (COE) to ensure HR deliverables are addressed in a timely manner.

Main Duties

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Responsible for understanding the business initiatives affecting business areas assigned, to include any operational, financial and performance improvement initiatives impacting their groups
• Actively evaluates and provides feedback and direction on trends and metrics that have an impact on operations and provides consultation regarding measures to address and develop solutions. (Overtime, Turnover, etc.)
• Ensure people, processes, programs, and systems are aligned to CW’s mission and objectives.
• Consult with leadership to provide applicable HR guidance, critical evaluation and recommended solutions based on operational drivers or outcomes to include developing and leading implementation plans and analysis of business information to process various ongoing HR actions.
• Develop leadership presence, establish credibility and trustworthiness at the business unit level and influences change management effectively.
• Act as a liaison to the HR Centers of Excellence in advising leaders on learning and development needs, talent management, succession planning, and total rewards.
• Manage and resolve employee relations issues, through effective, thorough, and objective investigations and recognize when to escalat… when warranted.
• In partnership with leaders, proactively engage and identify people gaps and opportunities, propose changes and facilitate the change processes necessary to mitigate risk.
• Interpret HR specific policies, practices and guidelines across the organization and recommend policy changes to support business needs.
• Interpret and support departmental action planning based on employee engagement survey outcomes and provide coaching to leaders.
• Develop partnerships across the HR functions to collaborate with other members of the HR team (COEs) to share best practices, identify areas of common improvement and participate in team initiatives and projects.
• Coordinate to provide HR specific education, training and