Assistant Vice President, Strategic Human Resources

Job Summary

The Assistant Vice President Strategic Human Resources (AVP) serves as the lead Human Resources Business Partner for an assigned hospital campus. The AVP provides strategic and operational HR leadership to campus executives managers and employees ensuring that local people strategies and operational priorities are aligned with TUHSs system-wide goals.

This position integrates the full spectrum of HR business partnershipincluding workforce planning employee relations talent acquisition performance management engagement and organizational developmentwith enterprise-wide initiatives such as leadership development succession planning and culture transformation.

The AVP acts as the primary liaison between campus leadership and the HR Centers of Excellence (COEs)Talent Acquisition Learning & Development Compensation and Employee & Labor Relationsto ensure effective coordination communication and execution of HR programs and services that drive both campus and system success.

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Human Resources Business Administration or related field (Required)
• Masters Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 10 years of progressive Human Resources experience with increasing leadership responsibility (Required)
• Experience serving as a strategic HR business partner or senior HR leader within a complex matrixed organization (Required)
• Demonstrated ability to advise and influence senior management on organizational cultural and workforce issues (Required)
• Experience leading large-scale HR and organizational initiatives (Required)
• Proven ability to align people strategy with business objectives and deliver measurable outcomes (Required)

Required Skills

• Strong consultative and influencing skills with senior leaders
• Excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated project management and change management capability
• Customer service orientation and ability to build trusted relationships
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel PowerPoint Word)
• Strong analytical and organizational skills

Core Responsibilities

Strategic HR Business Partnership

• Serve as the primary HR partner and advisor to campus executive and operational leadership teams.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with leaders supervisors and staff to understand business priorities workforce challenges and engagement needs.
• Provide proactive consultation on organization design workforce planning performance management and employee engagement.
• Coordinate activities and programs with HR Centers of Excellenceincluding Talent Acquisition Learning & Development Compensation and Employee & Labor Relationsto ensure cohesive and effective HR service delivery across the campus.
• Translate enterprise initiatives into actionable local plans that advance organizational effectiveness and strengthen culture.
• Monitor workforce trends engagement survey results and turnover data to identify and address issues impacting employee experience and operational performance.

Talent Leadership and Culture

• Lead the campus performance management goal-setting and succession planning processes ensuring alignment with system objectives.
• Partner with leaders to identify and develop high-potential employees and emerging leaders.
• Champion a culture of accountability engagement and continuous improvement; facilitate interventions that improve team effectiveness and leader capability.
• Collaborate with Learning & Development to design and implement leadership development programs that address current and future talent needs.

Employee and Labor Relations

• Partner closely with Employee and Labor Relations COEs to ensure timely fair and consistent handling of employee relations matters.
• Provide guidance to managers on policy interpretation employment practices and contract compliance.
• Support initiatives that strengthen employee relations enhance communication and reinforce TUHSs core values of respect integrity and service.
• Ensure adherence to applicable laws regulations and collective bargaining agreements.

Operational Excellence

• Partner with Finance Operations and HR Shared Services to ensure workforce plans staffing models and cost structures support patient care and financial goals.
• Support local labor cost management position control and organizational restructuring efforts as needed.
• Ensure HR processes communications and metrics are executed efficiently and in compliance with system standards.

Change and Communication

• Act as a change leader for system initiativestranslating strategy into clear actionable campus communications.
• Provide coaching to leaders and teams to navigate organizational change effectively.

Maintain open transparent communication across the campus ensuring employeesunderstand priorities goals and progress.

Your Tomorrow is Here!

Temple Health is a dynamic network of outstanding hospitals specialty centers and physician practices that is advancing the fight against disease pushing the boundaries of medical science and educating future healthcare professionals. Temple Health consists of Temple University Hospital (TUH) Fox Chase Cancer Center TUH-Jeanes Campus TUH-Episcopal Campus TUH-Northeastern Campus Temple Physicians Inc. and Temple Transport Team. Temple Health is proudly affiliated with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.

To support this mission Temple Health is continuously recruiting top talent to join its diverse 10000 strong workforce that fosters a healthy safe and productive environment for its patients visitors students and colleagues alike. At Temple Health your tomorrow is here!

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Your Tomorrow is Here!

Temple Health is committed to setting new standards for preventing diagnosing and treating major diseases in our community and across the nation. Achieving that goal means investing in our employees success through staff and leadership development. Our recruitment strategy is to attract and retain a diverse high performing workforce that fosters a healthy safe and productive environment for our patients and colleagues alike.