Director, Human Resources

The Director provides strategic oversight of the departments human capital operations ensuring alignment with County policies legal requirements and departmental priorities. This includes leadership over employee relations talent acquisition performance management workforce planning policy development leave administration and regulatory compliance. The position ensures the consistent and defensible administration of employment practices while strengthening internal controls and mitigating legal and financial risk.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Hiring & Personnel:

• Provides executive oversight of full-cycle recruitment onboarding and offboarding processes ensuring compliance internal controls and alignment with departmental workforce needs.
• Directs and oversees the departments performance management and evaluation processes.
• Serves as the departments lead authority on employee relations matters corrective actions grievances and ADA coordination ensuring lawful and defensible employment practices.
• Oversees administration of leave programs including ADA FMLA PPL PWFA and Workers Compensation ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Provides oversight of payroll processes in coordination with Central Payroll to ensure accuracy timeliness and compliance.
• Promotes employee engagement and fosters a culture of accountability and performance excellence.

Policies & Compliance:

• Directs the development implementation and interpretation of HR policies and procedures in alignment with Harris County standards.
• Ensures compliance with federal state and local employment laws including Title VII FLSA EEO TWC and ADA.
• Establishes and monitors internal controls related to timekeeping personnel records and workforce administration.
• Manages employee relations issues corrective actions and position control requests; serves as the ADA/Grievance Coordinator for the department.
• Maintains confidential HR personnel records/files ensuring all privacy laws are being followed.
• Leads the bi-weekly payroll process ensures all deadlines are met and troubleshoots issues in accordance with Central Payroll.
• Develops creative ways to enhance employee engagement that fosters a positive work environment.

Training & Development:

• Oversees training on County HR processes systems and policies.
• Identifies organizational development needs and supports leadership in strengthening workforce capability and succession planning.
• Supports HR operations during emergency events as required.

Other Duties:

• This Job Description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. At its discretion management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Harris County is an Equal Opportunity Employer If you need special services or accommodations please call or email.

This position is subject to a criminal history check. Only relevant convictions will be considered and even when considered may not automatically disqualify the candidate.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in human resources Public Administration Business Administration Organizational Leadership or a closely related field.

• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible human resources experience including at least three (3) years in a senior leadership or management capacity.

• Demonstrated experience overseeing complex employee relations matters investigations disciplinary actions and regulatory compliance.

• Extensive knowledge of federal and state employment laws and regulations including but not limited to Title VII ADA FMLA FLSA EEO and related public sector employment requirements.

• Experience developing and implementing HR policies internal controls and workforce governance frameworks.

• Strong executive-level communication analytical and decision-making skills with the ability to advise senior leadership on sensitive personnel matters.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge of the functional areas of Human Resources including recruitment employee on/off-boarding compensation employee relations safety employee engagement and training & development.

• Must be thoroughly familiar and versed in all federal state and local employment laws. (FMLA FLSA EEO ADA PWFA Title VII etc.)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with strong writing & presentation abilities.

• Knowledge of accepted office business practices and procedures; of applicable rules regulations and policies; and of related governmental/legislative and legal practices and procedures.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other County departments administrative offices the public and internal staff.

• Ability to work professionally and collegially within a creative fast-paced culture that emphasizes excellence and teamwork while embracing associated ambiguity.

• Ability to think strategically critically and creatively exercise independent judgment problem solve and multi-task through a wide variety of situations.

• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines.

• Demonstrated time and project management skills including the ability to meet multiple deadlines by maintaining a high level of organization and detail orientation and constantly adjusting to changing circumstances.

• Ability to maintain the highest standards of ethical behavior exercising honesty and integrity respect and fairness in the execution of responsibilities across the organization.

• Must be able to exercise high-level discretion and confidentiality with sensitive information related to employee data and financial information.
  
  
  

NOTE: Qualifying education experience knowledge and skills must be documented on your job application. You may attach a resume to the application as supporting documentation butONLY information stated on the application will be used for consideration. See Resumewill not be accepted for qualifications.

• Masters degree in a related field.
• SHRM-SCP SPHR or comparable advanced HR certification.
• Public sector or governmental HR leadership experience.
  
  
  

Position Type and Typical Hours of Work:

• Regular Full-time
• Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00p.m.

• Depends on Qualifications
• Based on 26 Pay Periods
  • Plus benefits

Reporting Relationships:

• Reports To Position:Executive Director Economic Equity and Opportunity

• Supervises Positions:Human Resources Manager Human Resources Assistant

Work Environment and Physical Demands:

• This job operates in a professional office environment.

• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers.

• Lift up to 20 lbs.

• Typical office work only with limited physical demands.

• Local travel for site visits and stakeholder engagement may be required.

Employment may be contingent on passing a drug screen and meeting other standards.

Due to a high volume of applications positions may close prior to the advertised closing date or at the discretion of the Hiring Department.