Chief Human Resources Officer

Provides leadership and strategic direction for Human Resources operations in an effective and efficient manner; fosters an organizational climate that promotes equity and inclusivity and supports CAC values of accountability, community, and trust; provides oversight of all functions of Human Resources including employee relations, professional development, talent acquisition, employee benefits, and compensation/classification systems; and ensures compliance with laws and institutional policies.

1. Establishes and implements initiatives that effectively support the College’s mission, vision, and wildly important goals (WIGS) of creating a world class learner experience and making CAC a great place to work.
2. Collaborates with College leadership to enhance the employee experience.
3. Develops and maintains a climate that is responsive to employee development, performance, and satisfaction by fostering excellence, development, and mutual respect.
4. Ensures diversity, equity, and inclusivity in all processes,
5. Develops, implements, and administers comprehensive compensation classification, and benefit plans that are competitive and cost effective,
6. Administers and provides oversight for essential Human Resources functions including employee relations, professional development, employee evaluations, and employment policies and procedures. 
7. Ensures the College consistently and fairly applies laws, regulations, policies, and procedures related to employment; serves as a liaison between legal counsel and administrative staff on employment issues.
8. Investigates employee grievances, complaints, and violations of employee policy and/or procedures, including EEO and sexual harassment, by gathering evidence, preparing reports, interpreting findings of research to draw conclusions, taking corrective actions and/or making recommendations to administration as appropriate; may work in conjunction with legal counsel,
9. Directs and oversees recordkeeping in accordance with legal requirements.
10. Prepares, administers and monitors Department budgets.
11. Maintains knowledge of current trends; inspects processes and procedures to promote optimal services and operational efficiency in an agile and flexible manner,
12. Serves on appropriate teams, committees, and councils.
13. Works with outside agencies and organizations appropriate to the position,
14. Performs other duties commensurate with functions and level of position or as assigned.

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree preferred

EXPERIENCE:  Eight (8) years of related experience in Human Resources, business management, or a related field; experience preferred in working with relational databases or HRMS systems; leading multiple HR functions; functioning at an HR manager level in a college or university; developing, implementing, and improving HR policies and programs in support of institutional diversity, equity and inclusion values and goals; and working with advisory and constituency groups on behalf of the HR function.

SPECIAL POSITION CONDITIONS:  SHRM (SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP) or HRCI (PHR of SPHR) preferred; travel within the District required; evening and weekend duties may be required to support Human Resources activities.

Background Verification:  As a condition of employment, all candidates accepting an offer of employment for a full-time, part- time, temporary, student worker, or volunteer position, will be required to undergo a Background Verification.  Employment with Central Arizona College is contingent upon the successful completion of the background verification.  The level the background verification for this position is: Executive level.

All applicants must be at least 18 years of age or older to be considered for this position.

• Knowledge of principles, concepts, and practices of HR and organizational management.
• Knowledge of College administrative processes, including policy development, implementation, and shared governance.
• Knowledge of various methods, techniques, and practices involved in the administration and operation of job classification, compensation, recruitment, selection and related activities.
• Skill in communicating, both verbally and in writing.
• Skill in administering and operating the various HR functions.
• Ability to work both independently or as part of a team to apply workflow processes to meet deadlines.
• Ability to analyze situations, develop solutions, and make independent decisions based upon established guidelines.
• Ability to interact collaboratively with applicants, College officials, constituency groups, managers, various departmental representatives, and the College community at large.
• Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and citizen stakeholders.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The work is sedentary work. The employee is occasionally required to exert up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:  hearing, mental acuity, speaking, and visual acuity in data. 

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS:

Significant Level - Position engages in or requires some or all of the following: develops, motivates, assesses, conducts performance reviews, and rewards other employees; has significantly high interactions with students, program participants, and/or the public; provides in depth counseling; teaches in an open-classroom environment where students are free to confront concepts and question theories; works with highly confidential information; and/or interacts on a regular basis with high profile individuals where interactions require well-developed understanding of human behavior and the ability to apply those skills in situations where the outcome is unpredictable.

WORKING CONDITIONS:  

Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity to change and responsiveness to changing goals, priorities, and needs. Job is performed in general office or comparable working area with occasional distractions such as noise and interruptions or in congested work areas with exposure to some disagreeable elements.

CAC is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination. CAC strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination on the basis of the following protected classes and/or characteristics, in all of its operations, programs and activities, including but not limited to employment, promotion, admissions and access to all career and technical programs: race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. For more information contact: Laura Shepherd, Title IX Coordinator at 520-494-5106 or titleix@centralaz.edu; Section 504/ADA Coordinator at studentaccessibility@centralaz.edu or Human Resources at human.resources@centralaz.edu.

Important Notice: As a condition of employment, all full time Central Arizona College employee’s automatically become members of the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS). This is a pension system that requires mandatory contributions from the employee with a matching contribution from the employer.  The 25-26 fiscal year contribution rate is 12.00%.  Please note this rate is subject to change on a fiscal year basis. Membership to ASRS is a condition of employment and is not optional unless you are at least 65 years of age and meet the opt out eligibility requirements, or are a retiree from ASRS . Please consider this when applying for this position.

We acknowledge that our institution, Central Arizona College, occupies ancestral lands of the Huhugam (HU-hu-gum), who lived and farmed along the Gila River Basin centuries ago. We thank the Native communities and descendants of these Indigenous people whose stewardship of the land and waterways allows us to be here now: the San Carlos Apache Tribe, Tohono O’odham (THO’-oh-no  OH’-oh-thum) Nation, Ak-Chin (AK-Chin) Indian Community,? and the Gila River Indian Community, which is comprised of the Akimel O’odham (A-kee-med/r OH-oh-thum) (Pima) and the PEE-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. Indigenous people from other Native nations also reside in Pinal County. Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized Tribes. All have made innumerable contributions to our region.?