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Assistant Director for Labor & Employee Relations - Illinois Human Resources (146812)

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Assistant Director for Labor & Employee Relations

Illinois Human Resources

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Illinois Human Resources at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks applicants for the Assistant Director for Labor & Employee Relations.

The Assistant Director for Labor & Employee Relations is responsible for Managing and administering the employee relations programs for civil service and academic professional employees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including developing, implementing, and evaluating ongoing Employee Relations policies, programs, functions, and activities. In addition, act as a liaison between Illinois Human Resources and campus units, providing support to campus units and civil service and academic professional employees on a broad spectrum of employee and labor relations areas.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Serve as Performance Partnership Program (PPP) Coordinator. Advise L&ER staff, departments and employees on the principles and procedures of the PPP, ensure that all parties are following the PPP procedures when considering discipline for an employee, monitor PPP database, analyze the PPP data to ensure program is being implemented consistently and fairly.
  • Advise civil service and academic professional employees and campus units on all employee relations matters for civil service and academic professional employees; research and interpret a wide range of policies and statutes, including University Policy and Rules, Campus Administrative Manual, State Universities Civil Service System Statute and Rules, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, and other applicable labor and employment laws.
  • Supervise lower-level professional staff in the section, and make recommendations on all employment-related decisions, including selection, retention, advancement, salary, etc.; provide or oversee initial training and provide ongoing guidance, direction, and support.
  • Manage the investigative process for situations involving alleged employee and faculty misconduct; this includes advising units on the investigative process, partnering with units in conducting investigations and/or independently conducting an investigation. Upon completion of an investigation, recommend appropriate disciplinary or other employment action in accordance with sound and accepted employee relations practices.
  • Serve as primary trainer for the section; develop and deliver training materials that provide guidance to campus human resources practitioners and supervisors in areas such as Policy and Rules, FMLA, workplace violence, performance management and performance appraisals, and the Performance Partnership Program. Research new training delivery models and make recommendations on implementation.
  • Represent Illinois Human Resources in arbitration and Merit Board discharge proceedings, by serving as the expert witness, alongside University Counsel; assist in the planning and preparation of cases before arbitrators and administrative bodies.
  • Represent IHR in campus and system-level committees such as background investigations, workers’ compensation, critical incident/threat assessment, etc.; Supervisors employees who coordinate employee relations programs including Employee Advisory Committee election, Staff Advisory Council election, employee recognition programs, etc.
  • Serves as Threat Assessment Committee chairperson
  • Manage the disciplinary process related to non-compliance for various University-wide academic employment training related to the Ethics Act, ANCRA, and Preventing Harassment and Discrimination
  • Coordinates with OAE in responding to requests for accommodation under the ADA and investigations under Title VII and Title IX.
  • Advise academic professional employees and campus units on all employee relations matters for academic professional employees, up to and including academic professional dismissal proceedings. Research and interpret a wide range of policies, including, Campus Administrative Manual, Provost’s Communications, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, and other applicable labor and employment laws.
  • Review performance documentation for Notice of Non-reappointment requests made under Provost Communication No.11
  • Provide information and guidance to departments and employees regarding day-to-day administration and interpretation of collective bargaining agreements.
  • Prepare reports, charts, databases, and other information on labor and employee relations activities; includes gathering data from LER-created databases, university-wide HRIS sources, professional organizations (CUPA, SHRM), internet research, etc.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Required: Bachelor’s degree in human resources, labor and employee relations, business administration, or related field.

Preferred: Master’s degree in human resources, labor and employee relations, business administration, or related field

Experience:

Required: Five years of experience in employee relations or human resources. Familiarity and demonstrated experience with human resource management principles, theories, and concepts.

Preferred: Experience in higher education

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of, or demonstrated ability to obtain knowledge of, University and campus structure, goals, procedures, policies, and practices. Understanding of special characteristics of various campus operating units. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Appointment Status: This is a full-time (100%), 12-month non-tenure track academic professional position.

Salary: Commensurate with experience and includes an excellent benefits package.

Proposed Starting Date: As soon as possible after the closing date.

Application Deadline: June 15, 2021

Application Procedures: All candidates must complete an online application at http://jobs.illinois.edu prior to the application deadline for full consideration. Qualified candidates must upload a cover letter, resume, and contact information (name, address, telephone number, and email address) for three current professional references. For additional information regarding the application procedures, please contact:

Illinois Human Resources
217-333-3101 (phone)

flong@illinois.edu (Email)

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Convictions are not a bar to employment. The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.

College Name or Administrative Unit:The Chancellor's Office Category:2-Administrative Title:Assistant Director for Labor & Employee Relations - Illinois Human Resources (146812) Open Date:06/01/2021 Close Date:06/15/2021 Organization Name:Illinois Human Resources Operations

Organization

Since its founding in 1867, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has earned a reputation as a world-class leader in research, teaching, and public engagement.

Faculty

A talented and highly respected faculty is the University's most significant resource. Many are recognized for exceptional scholarship with memberships in such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering. 

Our faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, and the Fields Medal in Mathematics.The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes.

Academic Resources

Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 11 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Annually, 53,000,000 people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research.

Research

Students and scholars find the University an ideal place to conduct research. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a model for interdisciplinary research, where eighteen research groups from sixteen University departments work within and across three broadly defined themes: biological intelligence, human-computer intelligent interaction, and molecular and electronic nanostructures. The University is also home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Undergraduate Education

The University has a fundamental commitment to undergraduate education. Nearly 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled in nine undergraduate divisions, which together offer some 4,000 courses in more than 150 fields of study.

Undergraduate admission is highly selective. In the 2001 freshman class, students in the middle 50% had ACT scores between 25 and 30 and ranked between the 83rd and 96th percentiles of their high school graduating classes.

The University enrolls over 9,000 graduate and professional students in more than 100 disciplines. It is among the top five universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States.

Also integral to the University's mission is a commitment to public engagement. Each year about 65,000 Illinois residents participate in scores of conferences, institutes, courses, and workshops presented statewide. Research and class projects take students and professors off campus to share expertise and technical support with Illinois farmers, manufacturing firms, and businesses. In a typical year, student volunteers log more than 60,000 volunteer hours.

The Arts

A major center for the arts, the campus attracts dozens of nationally and internationally renowned artists each year to its widely acclaimed Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The University also supports two major museums: the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and the Spurlock Museum, a museum of world history and culture. 

Other major facilities include the multipurpose Assembly Hall (16,500 seats); Memorial Stadium (70,000 seats), site of Big Ten Conference football games; and the Intramural-Physical Education Building, one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Illinois is about how we value difference to make a difference. http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu/

As evidence of the University’s commitment to enhance the working, living, and learning environment for faculty, staff, and students, the University will encourage a standard of conduct and behavior that is consistent with the values of inclusivity. In an environment of inclusivity, there is no place for acts of hatred, intolerance, insensitivity, bigotry, threats of violence, harassment or discrimination.

Inclusive Illinois, one campus, many voices

Inclusive Illinois is the University’s commitment to cultivating a community at Illinois where everyone is welcomed, celebrated, and respected. Through education, engagement, and excellence, each voice creates the Inclusive Illinois Experience.

How can we appreciate difference to make a difference?

Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. We value it because we know that we have so much to learn from each other in our living, learning, and working environment.

Illinois is the place where we recognize the power of possibility and where great potential is realized. Inclusive Illinois is the vision of that place: a vision made real by leadership and commitment.

Illinois is the place where consensus is forged by discourse and where everyone’s contributions are recognized: significant contributions that elevate us because they are informed and enhanced by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, age, physical ability, religion, class, and national origin. We are enriched by these perspectives, and we are united by the very discourse that brings these views together.

It is a process. It is transformative. And we celebrate the remarkable changes we set in motion here … taking an important step … crossing boundaries … starting with our own.

It all starts with each of us: with our willingness to embark on the journey in the search for answers, and with our openness and acceptance of the answers we find. Illinois is the place where it all comes together.

Learn more about how Inclusive Illinois promotes diversity here.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

The commitment of the University to the most fundamental principles of academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity requires that decisions involving students and employees be based on individual merit and be free from invidious discrimination in all its forms, whether or not specifically prohibited by law. Among the forms of invidious discrimination prohibited by the University policy but not law is discrimination, including harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation. Complaints of invidious discrimination in violation of University policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures. The policy of the University of Illinois is to comply with all federal and state nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action laws, orders, and regulations. The University will not engage in discrimination or harassment against any person because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, unfavorable discharge from the military, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of the Vietnam era. This nondiscrimination policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University programs and activities

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