Strategic HR Partner: Talent, Training & Development

Texas General Land Office; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free parking

Retirement plan options

Medical insurance

Dental/vision/life optional

Annual leave 96+ hours/year

Professional development

Job summary

The Texas General Land Office is seeking a seasoned Human Resources Business Partner to join the Human Resources Department in Austin. This senior role provides full employee life cycle support, partnering with program areas on recruitment, onboarding, benefits, and personnel actions while ensuring confidentiality and compliance.

You will deliver proactive HR guidance to department leadership, develop training, and maintain HR records and systems, coordinating background checks, eligibility

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university in business administration, human resources or a related field.
• Three (3) or more years of experience managing the complete employee life cycle, including talent acquisition, separations, and benefits.
• Full-Time experience in Human Resources or closely related experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.

Responsibilities

• Works with assigned departments to provide full employee life cycle support, including developing job postings, reviewing position descriptions forms for completeness and accuracy of job alignment, and reviewing interview questions ensuring fairness; recruiting outreach; screening/reviewing of applications; acquiring background checks, ensuring departments provide references for selected candidates, and employee eligibility verification; onboarding; entering new hires in EMA, full separation process; and exit interviews.
• Strategic Human Resources Support. Provides proactive customer service, guidance, strategies, and coaching to assigned departments leadership on issues related to all areas of human resources management, including talent acquisition, talent management, organizational and staff development, and succession planning.
• Provides and explains employee benefits including healthcare and retirement programs; provides information and enrollment assistance to employees for programs administered by the Employee Retirement System (ERS). Collects benefit election forms for new hires and enters data into CAPPS and ERS. Completes and processes all benefits' related actions for assigned departments, including medical support orders, TIPP claim forms, and qualifying life events.
• Responsible for timely and accurate Personnel Action Form (PAF) routing for assigned departments. Enters and maintains relevant employee data in CAPPS and agency file systems. Maintains and reviews human resources automated systems, files, and records. Collects, organizes, analyzes, and prepares human resources materials in response to requests for information and reports. Ensures secure remote access of necessary forms, procedures, documents, and other materials for business continuity purposes. Provides weekly reports to HR leadership. Plans, develops material, and facilitates workshops, meetings, and HR training; deliver training to managers and others as needed.

Skills

Employee life cycle

Talent acquisition

Benefits management

HR guidance

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, human resources or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office 365 Suite

Job description

The Texas General Land Office is seeking a seasoned Human Resources Business Partner to join the Human Resources Department in Austin. This senior role provides full employee life cycle support, partnering with program areas on recruitment, onboarding, benefits, and personnel actions while ensuring confidentiality and compliance.

You will deliver proactive HR guidance to department leadership, develop training, and maintain HR records and systems, coordinating background checks, eligibility