Human Resources Supervisor jobs in Concord, CA

The Position

• A role model that personifies integrity and excellence! You will be an important part of creating a culture of transparency and accountability, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• A strong relationship builder with excellent communication skills. You will be expected to create an environment where your team will strive and thrive, establish relationships across various departments and divisions, at all levels of the organization, and ensure that a consistent message is communicated to a variety of audiences.
• Analytical and data-driven. You will be responsible for collecting and analyzing various HR metrics and making recommendations to improve and optimize human resources activities for your department.
• Interested in learning and developing their career. In this hands-on working supervisor role, you will work side-by-side with your team to identify opportunities to improve business processes and identify solutions to various organizational challenges.
• Customer-focused. Your role will require you to understand your customer's operational needs and to be responsive and proactive when addressing those needs.
• Creative! You will need to be able to understand the challenges faced in a variety of HR disciplines, and proactively partner with various stakeholders to identify innovative solutions.
• Organized and results-driven. You will need to balance your work and multiple assignments and priorities for your assigned team in a fast-paced environment.

• Providing training, coaching, and mentoring to new and existing departmental HR and payroll team members, and holding them accountable for meeting performance standards.
• Assisting the Departmental Human Resources Officer with creating and maintaining policies, goals, and other metrics to measure the effectiveness of the team.
• Acting as an internal consultant working across all divisions and teams within your department to solve a broad array of personnel problems and issues; formulating courses of action and recommending solutions to the executive management team.
• Supervising the collection and analysis of departmental Human Resources data and metrics, and translating it into meaningful and actionable recommendations.

• You are ready to take on supervisory and leadership responsibility.
• Every day brings a variety of work and opportunities to make a difference with the potential to impact the delivery of important public services.
• You will work with people who are passionate about their work and focused on continuous improvement and innovation.
• You will have the ability to be innovative and creative in designing and implementing new programs, processes, and tools

• You will be joining an organization that is in the early stages of updating and modernizing several business practices and technologies. This will require persistence and tenacity to help keep change moving forward in an environment where some are already experiencing change fatigue.
• Your team will have varying levels of expertise, and some may require more support and guidance to be successful.
• You will need to learn to navigate through complex, sometimes outdated and conflicting rules, policies, and labor agreements to assist others in reaching operational objectives.
• You will need to balance conflicting demands from various levels in the department and the County.

• Attention to Detail: Focusing on the details of work content, work steps, and final work products
• Building & Maintaining Relationships: Establishing rapport and maintaining mutually productive relationships
• Coaching & Developing Others: Supporting others in stretching and expanding their capabilities
• Delivering Results: Meeting organizational goals and customer expectations and making decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks
• Handling & Resolving Conflict: Managing interpersonally strained situations
• Involving Others (Engaging Teams): Engaging others for input, contribution, and shared responsibility for outcomes
• Leveraging Technology: Applying technology for improvements in organizational efficiency and effectiveness
• Managing & Facilitating Change: Addressing key factors that influence successful organizational change
• Managing Performance: Ensuring superior individual and group performance
• Political & Organizational Savvy: Working skillfully with politics, procedures, and protocols across organizational levels and boundaries
• Professional & Technical Expertise: Applying technical subject matter to the job
• Professional Integrity & Ethics: Displaying honesty, adherence to principles, and personal accountability
• Valuing Diversity: Appreciating the benefits of varied backgrounds and cultures in the workplace

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Possession of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in public administration, business administration, human resources management or a closely related field.

and

Experience: Four (4) years of full-time, or its equivalent, professional human resources experience. Qualifying experience should include two or more of the following areas of responsibility:

• conducting classification studies and compensation analysis
• conducting job analyses and developing and administering employment assessments
• employee and/or labor relations in a unionized environment
• tracking and administering leaves for a large organization with over 500 employees

At least one (1) year of experience as a lead or supervisor of other HR staff AND at least one (1) year of professional HR experience working for a public sector agency are required.

Note: Professional Human Resources experience is defined as performing duties that require interpretation, independence of judgment and application of defined principles, practices and regulations.

• Possession of an IPMA-HR Certification
• Possession of a SHRM Certification
• Possession of a CLRM Certification
• Possession of a Data/HR Analytics Certification

Selection Process

• Application Filing and Evaluation: Applicants will be required to complete a supplemental questionnaire at the time of application, applications will be evaluated to determine which candidates will move forward in the next phase of the recruitment process.
• Multiple Choice Test: Candidates who demonstrate that they possess the minimum qualifications will be invited to participate in a multiple-choice assessment. Candidates will be evaluated on necessary knowledge and skills that may include: the ability to collect and analyze data, draw logical conclusions, and make sound recommendations; the ability to interpret and apply rules and regulations; and the ability to communicate effectively in writing. Candidates must achieve a passing score on the multiple choice test to be advanced to the performance assessment. (Weighted 100%) This test will be conducted remotely.