Job Details
Level
Experienced
Job Location
Milwaukee Campus - Milwaukee, WI
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
None
Salary Range
$54,733.00 - $60,815.00 Salary/year
Job Category
Human Resources
Description
The Wisconsin Humane Society is growing and looking for a full-time Human Resources Business Partner to join our HR team! This newly created role will play a vital role in coaching, supporting, and developing our managers and staff to meet our organizational business and people objectives. The HR Business Partner will report to the Director of Human Resources and will support our team of roughly 50 managers and 280 staff across eight locations. The position requires a regular presence at Milwaukee Campus and travel to our other campuses as needed with the opportunity to work in a hybrid format.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Partner with managers to provide hands-on and strategic input and guidance in alignment with our values on people-related issues, including:
  • Performance management
  • Employee relations
  • Coaching
  • Developing supervisors and staff
  • Conflict management
  • Compensation
  • Training
• Lead and ensure onboarding and training for new managers and ongoing support for current managers.
• Maintain positive employee relations by demonstrating a responsive, open approach and creating an environment where employees feel safe to ask questions and share their perspectives.
• Mediate employee relations issues, including conducting and documenting internal investigations.
• Ensure legal compliance in all guidance and actions taken.
• Develop and document HR processes, procedures, and policies.
• Participate in planning and executing human resources projects and initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in people management and human resources; degree, certification, or training in human resources preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in a wide breadth of HR functional areas, including strong understanding and track record in performance management, employee relations, and employment law.
• Commits to and models our values of compassion, respect, and kindness; professionalism; innovation; positive approach; and equity, and ability to coach supervisors and staff on integrating those values in our work.
• Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal and customer service skills.
• The ability to maintain confidentiality, exercise good judgement and diplomacy.
• Ability and willingness to travel between WHS locations as needed.

Benefits
Full-time Benefits Include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Group term life insurance and voluntary life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Flexible spending plans
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Sun Life supplemental benefit
• 403(b) retirement plan with company match
• Paid family Leave

Time off including:

• Vacation
• Wellness
• Holiday

Full-time and part-time staff are eligible for the following benefits:

• 403(b) retirement plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 30% off adoption fees
• 30% off manners classes and behavior consultations
• 20% off youth programs
• Event discounts
• Animal Antics retail discounts
• Limited wellness/veterinary care services for companion animals

Application Instructions
To apply for this position, please complete the Apply Now section at the top of this job page to begin your online employment application. Only applications submitted through our online application system may be considered. Please know that it is our policy to reply to each and every application received once we have a status update.
Come see why over 280 staff call one of our 7 locations home! You'll be happy you did!
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Wisconsin Humane Society believes in equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment. WHS's success depends on engaging qualified people regardless of race, color, creed, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy and related conditions, gender identity, and sexual orientation), marital status, veteran status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, arrest and/or conviction record (unless substantially related to the position held or sought), veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) is the oldest and largest shelter in Wisconsin. It was founded in 1879 and operates shelters in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Door, Brown, and Kenosha Counties, as well as a Spay/Neuter Clinic in West Allis. The organization offers adoption services, youth programming, and veterinary resources for animals from low-income households, retail stores, volunteer programs and dog training classes. The Milwaukee shelter also houses the state's busiest Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. WHS is an independent nonprofit and receives no general government funding and is not part of any national umbrella group.