Description

The Organization 

Community Partners offers expert guidance, essential services, and a strong dose of passion to help foster, launch, and grow creative solutions to community challenges. For almost 30 years, hundreds of individuals, groups, foundations, and other institutions have worked with Community Partners to create new nonprofit projects, establish coalitions, and manage major philanthropic initiatives to benefit the region. 

Across all program areas, Community Partners works toward our organizational vision: A vibrant society in which individuals and institutions use knowledge, resources, and relationships to build equitable, democratic, and thriving communities. 

Our work includes: 

Intermediary Programs 

We help foundations, corporations, government agencies and other institutions achieve greater impact. 

Fiscal Sponsorship 

We provide the structure, finance and administrative services, expert counsel that help nonprofit leaders succeed. 

Knowledge Sharing 

We offer workshops, reports, speaking engagements and a range of publications to help strengthen the field.

Community Partners today works with upwards of 180 projects and initiatives and manages roughly $90 million in revenues annually. Our work spans the fields of civic engagement, arts and culture, education, racial and social justice, health, public policy, social services, and youth. To learn more, please visit us at www.CommunityPartners.org. 

THE POSITION

Community Partners seeks a full time Director of Human Resources. Reporting to the Vice President of Equity, Talent and Culture, this position will administer and ensure the use of best HR practices throughout a growing organization with over 800 employees in multiple states with the majority of these employees in California. This position will provide leadership and guidance in all personnel matters including benefits management, compensation, training and development and employee relations. The HR Director will also be responsible for developing human resources strategies to support the organization's strategic priorities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage all day-to-day activities of the human resources functions with a focus on compensation, benefits, and performance, providing oversight and executing tasks as needed 
• Provide supervision, coaching and mentoring for the human resources team of managers, specialists and assistants 
• Create and revise HR policies and procedures and update employee handbook as needed 
• Oversee payroll processing ensuring quality control 
• Oversee annual performance review process 
• Develop, implement, and communicate staff engagement survey; manage subsequent action and organizational change warranted by survey results 
• Ensure the policies and practices of the organization comply with applicable provisions of federal, state and local labor laws in a manner that keeps at the forefront the social causes spearheaded by Community Partners and the directors of fiscally sponsored projects 
• Monitor and sustain compensation philosophy and advise senior management 
• Provide compensation compliance guidance to directors of fiscally sponsored nonprofit projects 
• Manage activities such as annual 403b audit and workers' compensation renewal 
• Provide counsel to directors of fiscally sponsored nonprofit projects on specific staff and employee relations issues 
• Conduct trainings for directors of fiscally sponsored nonprofit projects to assist them with general HR and staff issues 
• Support open communication throughout the organization and proactively drive internal communication on topics that affect all staff 
• Track and analyze HR metrics 
• Additional responsibilities, as assigned 

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required 

• A minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in all functional areas of human resources 
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in leading and managing a human resources team 
• Experience and/or comfort with operating in knowledge organizations (e.g. philanthropy, academia, research institutions, management consulting, law) 
• Experience working with diverse groups and in a team environment, with a collaborative and consultative style 
• Highest degree of integrity and confidentiality 
• Ability to demonstrate exceptional client service to the needs and opportunities presented by a diverse range of independent thinkers and social entrepreneurs 
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and written/oral communication skills 
• Attention to detail, with the ability to plan well ahead of routine deadlines and anticipate administrative support needs 
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines 
• Ability to identify issues, obstacles, and opportunities and then develop and implement effective solutions in a collaborative and creative manner 
• Ability to design and facilitate training programs on various HR topics 

Preferred 

• Certified as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR or SPHR 
• Experience in the nonprofit sector 
• Exposure to providing human resources services to virtual based employees 
• Human resources experience with a multi-state employer 
• Experience with employee benefits and reconciliation 
• Expertise with human resources information systems (HRIS)

PHYSICAL

• The employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods of time, frequently required to walk and stand. 
• The employee must also use his/her hands to operate and feel office equipment and reach with hands and arms. 
• Employee may occasionally climb, stoop, kneel, or bend. 
• Employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with special needs to perform essential job duties.

COMPENSATION 

$120,000 – 135,000 DOE

Benefits include 15 paid holidays and 10 vacation days per year during first two years of employment and increases based on years of service thereafter, a 403(b) plan with employer match after two years of employment, medical, dental, vision, flex spending, and a range of professional development opportunities. Community Partners has a 9/80 workweek option under which employees may elect to work 80 hours in 9 days and take every other Friday off (after completion of the introductory period).

Community Partners® is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. In addition, the organization will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.