What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. HR Business Partner position at Colonial Williamsburg?
Who We Are
Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is "that the future may learn from the past" through preserving and restoring 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia's colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation.
Today, Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the U.S. The Historic Area is the 301-acre restored colonial capital with 88 original buildings and 525 buildings reconstructed to how they appeared in the 18th century through extensive archaeological, architectural, and documentary research. The Historic Area is staffed by highly trained, historically dressed interpreters and expert tradespeople who bring the 18th century to life. The Foundation also owns and operates two world-class museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, The Bob and Marion Wilson Teacher Institute, and a renowned research library, the John D Rockefeller Jr Library.
Additionally, Colonial Williamsburg is home to five world class accommodations at the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg Lodge Autograph Collection, the Griffin Hotel, the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotels and Suites and the unique Colonial Houses in the Historical Area. Visitors may also indulge in food and drink at our many on site restaurants and taverns that blend a historically inspired dining experience with today's evolved tastes. Each year over 5 million people visit Williamsburg and another 20 million engage with us digitally.
About the Position
The Sr HR Business Partner (HRBP) supports the alignment of business initiatives with employees and management for their assigned areas. The HRBP will serve as a strategic partner to leadership in the line of business they serve and will assess and anticipate HR-related needs and deliver value-added service that addresses organizational initiatives. Additionally, the role will leverage partnerships across the Centers of Excellence (COE) to ensure HR deliverables are addressed in a timely manner.
Essential Functions :
- Responsible for understanding the business initiatives affecting business areas assigned, to include any operational, financial and performance improvement initiatives impacting their groups
- Actively evaluates and provides feedback and direction on trends and metrics that have an impact on operations and provides consultation regarding measures to address and develop solutions. (Overtime, Turnover, etc.)
- Ensure people, processes, programs, and systems are aligned to CW's mission and objectives.
- Consult with leadership to provide applicable HR guidance, critical evaluation and recommended solutions based on operational drivers or outcomes to include developing and leading implementation plans and analysis of business information to process various ongoing HR actions.
- Develop leadership presence, establishes credibility and trustworthiness at the business unit level and influences change management effectively.
- Act as a liaison to the HR Centers of Excellence in advising leaders on learning and development needs, talent management, succession planning, and total rewards.
- Manage and resolve employee relations issues, through effective, thorough, and objective investigations and recognize when to escalate problems to a higher level when warranted.
- In partnership with leaders, proactively engage and identify people gaps and opportunities, propose changes and facilitate the change processes necessary to mitigate risk.
- Interpret HR specific policies, practices and guidelines across organization and recommends policy changes to support business needs.
- Interpret and supports departmental action planning based on employee engagement survey outcomes and provide coaching to leaders.
- Develop partnerships across the HR functions to collaborate with other members of the HR team (COEs) to share best practices, identify areas of common improvement and participate in team initiatives and projects.
- Coordinate to provide HR specific education, training and development support for managers and employees.
- Represent Colonial Williamsburg in regulatory hearings such as unemployment hearings, appeals, EEOC mediations, etc. Provides support to Director HRBP in coordination and preparation of all documentation for arbitration, mediation and EEOC hearings.
- Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law and recommend programs that will enhance employee and labor relations, and craft new policies for approval.
Required and Preferred Education and Experience :
Required : Competencies usually acquired through completion of a Bachelor's degree in business administration, human resources, or closely related field or equivalent experience, plus 5-7 years of experience in human resources or related position that includes experience in employee relations, labor relations, performance management, diversity and equal opportunity.
Preferred : Professional (PHR), Senior Professional (SPHR) in Human Resources; SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP; experience working within not-for-profit industry
Qualifications :
