Knoxville - Director of Human Resources
Diocese of Knoxville Knoxville
Responsible for ensuring the Diocese of Knoxville fulfills its religious and secular obligations related to employees in the areas of hiring/terminating, compensation, benefits management, training, ongoing professional development, evaluation, promotion, and policy generation and establish good rapport and trust with people, particularly the pastors (essential in our environment).
Responsible for the diocese's compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations.
Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Functions
HR policies and legislation
Responsible for the diocese's compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations.
Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Functions
HR policies and legislation
- Monitor and ensure the diocese's compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; review and modify policies and practices to maintain compliance.
- Ensure HR policies, procedures and practices comply with related legislation and regulations.
- Ensure employee records comply with applicable laws and best practices.
- Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law; apply this knowledge to communicate changes in policy, practice, and resources to senior leadership.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to understand the organization's goals and strategy related to staffing, recruiting, and retention.
- Identify staffing and recruiting needs; develop and execute best practices for hiring and talent management.
- Develop and maintain the recruitment and selection process and resources.
- Ensure the recruitment and selection process is communicated to all supervisors.
- Ensure job responsibilities and expectations are completed for all positions and reviewed annually.
- Ensure recruitment is through an objective, consistent process.
- Ensure all new employees are oriented to the position and to the organization.
- Oversee performance management processes and resources.
- Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to line management.
- Ensure that performance management processes are communicated to all diocesan leaders.
- Ensure that the performance review process is documented and communicated to all employees.
- Ensure that all employees have quarterly discussions and receive an annual performance review.
- Ensure that employees who are not meeting expectations are put on a Development Plan
- Conduct exit interviews with all employees leaving the organization.
- Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues. Conduct effective, thorough and objective investigations.
- Participate in NACPA benchmark compensation surveys.
- Provide guidance to pastors and diocesan leaders on compensation benchmarking for positions.
- Oversee employee benefit programs and inform employees of benefits by studying and assessing benefit needs and trends; recommend benefit programs; direct the processing of benefit claims; obtain and evaluate benefit contract bids; award benefit contracts; design and conduct educational programs on benefit programs.
- Oversee lay and priest benefit programs in collaboration with the Finance Officer; recommend benefit improvements as necessary or appropriate; maintain databases for benefits data and confidential benefits files for all diocesan locations.
- Ensure timely compliance with federal requirements of all areas of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) including filings and establishment and implementation of current and future reporting procedures.
- Assess the training needs of the organization.
- Create a training action plan based on the needs assessment.
- Implement training initiatives based on the training action plan.
- Evaluate and revise the training based on training program evaluations.
- Act as the diocesan safe environment coordinator in administering Safe Environment program.
- Ensure accurate reporting for USCCB annual audit.
- Review all background checks for approval.
- Manages immigration related issues for foreign national priests, sisters and seminarians in conjunction with diocesan immigration counsel.
- Practicing Catholic who supports the teachings of the Catholic Church.
- Thorough knowledge of employment-related laws and regulations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
- Ability to adapt to the needs of the organization and employees.
- Ability to prioritize tasks and to delegate them when appropriate.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration, or related field required; or 10 years of human resource generalist or management experience in lieu of degree.
- At least five years of human resource generalist or management experience required.
- SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP highly preferred.
- Prior work experience in a Catholic diocese preferred, but not required.
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