Assistant Director, Human Resources/Risk Management

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Assistant Director, Human Resources/Risk Management - Redlands, CA - Ralph Andersen & Associates

Under administrative direction, to assist the Director, Human Resources/Risk Management to plan, organize, coordinate, and evaluate the activities, operations and personnel of the Human Resources/Risk Management Department including recruitment and selection, benefits management, performance management, training, staff development, organizational development, classification and compensation, discipline, safety, risk, volunteer management and compliance. Â Provides highly responsible and complex administrative support to the Director. Â Manages and supervises a broad range of complex organizational, human resource management operations and participates in all labor relations functions, including contract negotiations, dispute resolutions discipline, grievances, and arbitration; coordinates assigned employee/labor relations, risk management, workers; compensation and safety matters frequently entailing issues of significant potential litigation risk, cost and exposure to adverse public reaction. Â Â

Supervision Received/Exercised

Works under the administrative direction of the Director, Human Resources/Rick Management. Â Serves as Acting Director in their absence. Â Exercises supervision over subordinate management, supervisory, professional, clerical, and technical personnel.

Education

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in human resources management, public administration, or a related field.
• A Master's degree is preferred.
  
  

Experience

• Previous experience as a Director, Assistant Director or equivalent senior leadership position is required.
• Eight years of increasingly responsible human resources management experience in a California municipal agency, including five years of management responsibilities in labor experience and three years of management of risk management functions.
  
  

Licenses and Certificates

• Professional or Senior Professional in Human Resources Certification, and;
• Possession and maintenance of, or the ability to obtain and maintain, a valid California driver's license at the time of appointment.
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential functions and duties require the following physical abilities and work environment

• Ability to work in a standard office environment; ability to travel to different sites and locations;
• Regularly required to talk or hear. Required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.