ENGINEERINGUK is hiring: Director, Human Resources, CBS News in Washington
ENGINEERINGUK, Washington, DC, United States, 20022
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Sector: Human Resources
Role: Director
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Overview & Responsibilities:
We are looking for a Director, Human Resources located in our largest news bureau. This role will provide strategic consultation to CBS News leaders as well as tactical and operational support on a wide range of topics including compensation programs, employee engagement, performance management, workforce planning, organizational design, learning and development, diversity, equity and inclusion. You will play a pivotal role in creating an environment where people thrive, partnerships prevail, and performance excels, making CBS News & Stations the best place to work. Live our values - foster inclusion; champion transparency, collaboration and communication; focus on staff development and encourage recognition. You should be someone who thrives in a fast-paced news environment to collaborate with our business leaders and help them drive their goals through tailor-made HR strategies!
Your Day-to-Day:
- Build strategic partnerships with leaders to foster an environment of innovation and excellence.
- Understand and apply the business strategy to ensure alignment and high client applicability of HR initiatives and programs.
- Translate business priorities into an actionable workforce plan while partnering with Finance to ensure accurate Head Count tracking and with Talent Acquisition to recruit, select and hire top talent.
- Successfully lead employee relations investigations in partnership with legal and our in-house employee relations team as necessary.
- Work with our Compensation partners to provide support including salary planning, approval of salary actions, promotions and job re-leveling.
- Assist leaders in understanding organizational interdependencies of current workforce trends by using data to determine and recommend the appropriate implementation of people strategies.
- Work collaboratively and continually innovate by improving processes, tweaking existing programs or introducing new initiatives to drive the right business outcomes.
- Lead organizational capability through assessing talent, identifying competency gaps, and following through on the strategic movement of people.
- Offer guidance and solutions on employee performance and team efficiency, along with feedback on style and leadership behaviors to improve work relationships, boost morale, and encourage retention.
- Build and implement sustainable solutions related to Employee and Labor Relations matters.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree.
- 10+ years of well-rounded HR Business Partner experience.
- Superior critical thinking ability and judgment, with understanding that breaking news exceeds all other priorities.
- Strong functional HR knowledge; well versed in all areas of the HR function and stays current in emerging talent practices and developments.
- Previous experience successfully leading complex employee relations investigations from intake to conclusion.
- Proven track record of successfully working across all levels of the organization, demonstrating influence and consultative skills with employees, managers and senior leadership.
- Advanced communication and collaboration skills with peers and Centers of Excellence partners.
- Knowledge of federal, state and local laws and statutes which govern policies and practices of hiring, compensation and benefits and general employment.
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience working in a news, media, broadcast, or other like industry is highly preferred.
- Experience working with unions and building meaningful relationships highly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to understand complex business issues and develop HR initiatives/actions based on data and analytics to support business strategies.
- Demonstrated process capabilities and metrics driven, adept at managing complex projects involving multiple collaborators.
- Experience with HR legal issues and working with internal legal counsel.
- Displays courage and confidence when tackling tough coaching situations while maintaining trusting client relationships.
- Naturally curious, self-starter; able to work and seek out answers/resources independently and be the person people want to work with.
- Highly responsive, client focused professional who works well in, and excels at navigating, a highly matrixed, team environment.
- Operates with a high sense of urgency, initiative, follow-through and attention to detail.
- Proactively anticipate issues while providing viable, alternative solutions to the business.
- Proven ability to handle extremely confidential information, act with integrity and use discretion.
Hiring Salary Range: $124,000.00 - 155,000.00.
Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
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