Human Resources Manager-City of Laramie, WY

About the Company

Located in southeastern Wyoming, Laramie is a vibrant small city of 32,284 residents that blends small-city affordability, university-town culture, and exceptional outdoor recreation. Home to the University of Wyoming, Laramie sits at 7,165 feet elevation along Interstate 80, about 50 miles west of Cheyenne. The city offers a strong sense of community pride with a full calendar of cultural events, historic downtown on the National Register, and easy access to the Snowy Range Mountains, Vedauwoo rock formations, and Medicine Bow National Forest for hiking, fishing, skiing, and mountain biking.

The City of Laramie operates under a council-manager form of government with a nine-member City Council and approximately 290 employees. The Human Resources Department partners with the City Manager and all departments to ensure HR programs and services are administered consistently, efficiently, and equitably. The department is guided by the City's mission: Building our community through Respect, Integrity, Teamwork, and Stewardship.

About the Role

Reporting to the Human Resources Director, the Human Resources Manager serves as the department's senior operational leader, directly supervising two HR professionals while managing employee relations, recruitment and staffing, training and development, performance management, and day-to-day HR service delivery.

The successful candidate will provide operational leadership across the full range of HR functions while helping stabilize a currently short-staffed department and building a stronger, more cohesive team. They will possess considerable knowledge of HR operations, employee relations, recruitment, performance management, and employment law, along with the independent judgment to resolve routine and moderately complex matters and the good sense to know when to escalate.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Human Resources Department's senior operational leader.
• Directly supervise two HR professionals.
• Manage employee relations.
• Oversee recruitment and staffing.
• Lead training and development efforts.
• Administer performance management.
• Provide day-to-day HR service delivery.
• Help stabilize a currently short-staffed department.
• Build a stronger, more cohesive HR team.
• Exercise independent judgment to resolve routine and moderately complex matters and determine when to escalate issues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, public administration, organizational management, or a closely related field.
• Seven years of progressively responsible professional HR experience across multiple disciplines, including employee relations, recruitment, policy administration, benefits, compensation/classification, or HR operations.
• Experience providing work direction, project leadership, or staff supervision.
• Equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered.

Preferred Skills

• Three or more years of broad generalist HR experience; five years of supervisory or HR-management experience.
• Municipal or other public-sector HR experience.
• SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, IPMA-CP, or a comparable HR certification (may be obtained within one year of appointment if not already held).
• Experience conducting workplace investigations, and with HRIS administration, compensation, classification, and process improvement.

The salary range for this position is $80,293 – $120,161 annually, DOQ/E.

For more information, contact:

Larry Gilley, Senior Vice President, Executive Recruitment

larrygilley@governmentresource.com | 325-660-4208