Description:
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Works with management to review turnover statistics and implement retention and employee relations strategies that create a positive, highly functioning work environment.
- Assists management in identifying and resolving problems with staff, faculty or organizational structure, processes or policies that impede the creation of a positive environment.
- Partners with Leadership teams to identify trends within the Medical School departments that require proactive engagement and recommends strategies, policies or procedures changes to enhance the teams’ effectiveness.
- Counsels management, faculty and staff to promote good working relationships and increase trust in departmental and school leadership.
- Functions as “staff leaders” to encourage department management, staff or faculty to face and eradicate problems that interfere with the functioning of the department, or create interpersonal problems.
- Counsels department management on disciplinary, training or other measures which resolve or address employee performance, conduct or attitudinal problems.
- Develops and facilitates management training forums on Human Resource policies, management /leadership development, team building and interpersonal skills. Identifies and refers management staff to additional trainings resources to include Danforth Training and Development, AAIM, IMS and others.
- Facilitates employee orientation programs to include New Employee, New Postdoctoral. New Manager and New Faculty orientations. Provides content for same.
- Attends various meetings within assigned departments to provide Human Resource input into departmental planning, staff activities, etc.
- Assists department management to strengthen the overall management team through recruitment, selection and development of the best managers.
- Assists in organizational re-design, role definition, process review and implementation and communication of same.
- Works with management on the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff.
- Assists in identifying and defining reporting and monitoring tools that will be helpful to departments.