AVP, Employee Relations

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.

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.

The Associate Vice President (AVP) of Employee & Labor Relations is a senior HR leader responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for Employee Relations and Labor Relations across Temple University Health System (TUHS) and its affiliated entities. Reporting to the Vice President of Employee & Labor Relations the AVP serves as a senior advisor and subject matter expert on complex employee and labor relations matters including investigations workforce strategy contract administration collective bargaining grievance and arbitration management labor-management relations and employment law compliance. The AVP partners closely with executive leadership Legal Human Resources leadership operational leaders and Employee and Labor Relations professionals to ensure consistent legally compliant and business-focused outcomes across the organization.

Education
Bachelors Degree Required
Masters Degree /or Juris Doctor degree Required

Experience
10 years of progressive experience in Employee Relations Labor Relations or Human Resources leadership Required
General Experience Demonstrated expertise in workplace investigations grievance administration arbitration preparation collective bargaining and employment law compliance Required
General Experience leading enterprise-wide workforce initiatives and advising senior leadership Required
General Experience in a highly unionized healthcare environment Preferred

Licenses
Sr Prof in Human Resources Preferred or
SHRM - SCP Preferred