PRIMARY PURPOSE

The People and Culture Director provides highly relational leadership related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging to support a sustainable human relations workforce that represents families served by the organization. The People and Culture Director is responsible for creating, organizing, synthesizing, and promoting DEIB movement and strategic implementation within the organization, including promoting and developing training, developing employee resource groups, convening stakeholder meetings, caring for the health and wellness of staff and integrating a DEIB growth mindset across human resources. The People and Culture Director manages and coordinates the administrative human resource functions of the organization including recruiting, employee relations, performance management, protected leave and employee grievances.

The person in this position is responsible for consistently demonstrating OFSN’s core values in all business interactions and performance and exhibits a spirit of cooperation, showing adaptability and flexibility while supporting organizational policies, procedures and goals. In addition, this position is responsible for developing and maintaining trusting relationships with their team, OFSN co-workers and community/system partners as well as contractors.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Human Relations and Employee Belonging (40%)

• Execute human relations strategies that support the overall organizational mission, vision and values.
• Implement human relations initiatives that promote employee engagement and transform the organizations culture in alignment with the strategic plan
• Execute programs that enhance employee well-being (ie., employee resource groups, employee wellness and inclusion)
• Oversee talent recruitment and retention strategies to ensure the organization has the workforce it needs that aligns with the vision of the organization.
• Manage onboarding and offboarding of employees.
• Implement performance management systems that encourage continuous improvement with a growth mindset.
• Collaborate with other departments, such as finance, operations, and marketing, to align HR initiatives with broader organizational goals
• Respond to employee inquiries regarding policies, procedures, protected leave and recommends appropriate resolution of employee relations issues.
• Assist managers in supporting and enforcing company policies and procedures including performance and disciplinary issues.
• Develop and maintain job descriptions and performs job evaluations as needed to ensure that they are culturally relevant and aligned with the workforce needs.

Employee and Organizational Culture (40%)

• Develop practices to reduce health disparities among marginalized communities.
• Develop protocols and provide guidance that supports the organizations movement away from white centric operations.
• Support the work and initiatives of the Diversity and Equity Leadership Team (DELT) and other employee resource groups.
• Support all levels of staff within the organization to develop and maintain relationships with an increasing diversity of organizations, communities and individuals.
• Form and maintain community partnerships to build relationships that increase access and inclusion for underrepresented communities.
• Foster a culture of belonging within the organization – identifying intentional behaviors and practices that include and value multiple ways of being, relating and leading.

Supervision and Direct Leadership (20%)

• Supervise human relations staff.
• Provide direct leadership for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Team (DELT).
• Participate as a member of the organization’s Executive Leadership Team.

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain the confidentiality of organizational information, database files, HIPPA compliant information, web statistics, and other sensitive data.
• Other duties as assigned or needed by the organization.

• Comprehensive knowledge of, or ability to use, Microsoft Office (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint), database, and virtual platforms (such as Zoom and Google Meets).