HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER 1 - 67762

Executive Service

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do:

The mission of the Tennessee Department of Health is to protect, promote and improve the health and prosperity of people in Tennessee. The Division of Laboratory Services' mission is to provide quality analytical laboratory support through the generation of accurate, reliable, and valid laboratory results.

Job Overview:

• Responsible for professional general human resources consultative work of considerable difficulty and HR supervisory work; including development of job performance plans for assigned subordinates and providing training in the basic workflow and processes related to their tasks.
• Develops process improvement suggestions to streamline workflow and improve process cycle times and accuracy; as well as ensuring implementation of laboratory strategic planning initiatives.
• Develops and maintains policies, procedure manuals, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, form letters, memos, database queries, position advertisements, logs, and other systems as required to facilitate accurate data gathering, tracking, training, and dissemination.
• Incorporates departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, and policies into team best practices and standard operating procedures for efficiency and compliance purposes.
• Works with Central Health HR to identify best practices that prevent workplace misconduct and incidents that violate the anti-harassment policies.
• Partner with Agency Leadership to ensure compliance with (i.e., onboarding, performance management, equal employment opportunity plans) statewide programs and implementation.
• Ensures Customer agency compliance with all State and Federal employment law postings.
• Coaches, counsels, trains, and advises agency leaders regarding corrective and disciplinary action processes, performance management, and related issues impacting job performance.
• Provides advice and guidance to agency leadership on recommendations for transfers, demotions, and terminations.
• Works collaboratively across all business units and management teams to deliver exceptional customer service and guidance on matters of employee relations.
• Partners with agency leaders in developing and implementing long-term compensation planning.
• Consults with agency leaders to design tailored compensation strategies aligned with the agency's compensation objectives for proposal to Central Health HR.
• Provides recommendations regarding employee salary adjustments, position actions, and other compensation actions submitted to ensure alignment with the States compensation philosophy.
• Analyzes data to determine appropriate pay structure and salary grade for agency-level positions, for proposal to Central Health HR.
• Consults with the agency to determine responsibilities, qualifications, and competencies for job classifications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advises hiring managers to ensure legally defensible and accurate employment decisions are made based on departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
• Assists in documenting accidents and other safety violations to ensure compliance with OSHA/TOSHA regulations.
• Ensures the correct human resources transaction documents are submitted by operating agency staff for appointments, promotions, demotions, separations, terminations, reclassifications, transfers, retirement, and information changes.
• Ensures the entry and approval of time and leave/overtime requests for laboratory staff into the appropriate databases as required, as well as submission of special leave timesheets/documentation.
• Ensures departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes, and procedures are followed when addressing employee relations issues and maintaining essential documentation.
• Also, ensure the auditing of the personnel files and other employee documentation of laboratory staff to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with standards.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and at least four years Human Resource experience, and at least two years supervisory experience (no substitutions for experience).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of the importance of confidentiality
• Exercises the highest standard of ethics
• Knowledge of state human resources rules and regulations

Substitution of Experience for Education:

• Qualifying full-time professional human resources experience may be substituted for the required education, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of four years.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.