Human Resources Business Partner

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Performance Coaching & Culture (60%)

• Courageous Accountability: Identify performance gaps in your portfolio early; partner with leaders to implement documented high-quality support plans that reach a definitive resolution swiftly.
• Just Culture Implementation: Train and coach leaders to use the Just Culture Rubric to distinguish between human error at-risk behavior and reckless behavior in disciplinary actions.
• On-the-Ground Diagnostic & Thought Partnership: Maintain a consistent presence in schools to proactively monitor adult culture. Partner with school leaders to move beyond treating symptoms by identifying root-cause issues and serving as a consultant to reveal gaps in accountability.
• Intervention Design & Evaluation: Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of cultural interventions from designing high-impact strategies to evaluating their efficacy. Use ER metrics and qualitative data to build compelling cases for systemic change ensuring that interventions result in a measurable decrease in repeat incidents and a sustained high-performance environment.

Employee Relations & Risk Management (25%)

• High-Efficacy ER: Manage complex investigations and employee relations incidents with rigor and speed aiming for closure within 510 school days.
• Talent Risk Mitigation: Guide leaders through difficult transitions (terminations exits) ensuring the process is legally sound human-centered and culturally reinforcing.

Operational Excellence & Innovation (15%)

• Data-Informed Advocacy: Translate retention trends and survey data into actionable leadership moves for school management.
• AI Integration: Ethically leverage AI as a strategic co-pilot to accelerate workflows and drive innovation within the Talent & Equity team.
• Compliance & Safety: Oversee Workers Compensation administration OSHA reporting and reasonable accommodation requests with meticulous attention to detail.

Qualifications :

The Qualifications & Competencies

Role-Specific Skills

• Coaching & Influence: Ability to move leaders from defensiveness to action and coach them through the discomfort of high-stakes conversations.
• Systems Thinking and Data Analysis: Ability to identify patterns in adult behavior and school-site systems that undermine accountability.
• Organizational Diagnostics: Expertise in using retention and ER data to build cases for cultural shifts.

Standard Qualifications

• 57 years of relevant HR or Organizational Development experience.
• Thorough knowledge of all federal state and local employment and workers compensation laws
• Demonstrated track record as an HR Partner in a fast-paced multi-site organization (500 FTEs); experience within a Charter Management Organization (CMO) or the K-12 education sector is strongly preferred.
• Deep commitment to upholding KIPP SoCals anti-racism standards and promoting a high performance adult culture.
• Ability to travel frequently to KIPP SoCal schools.
• Valid California Drivers License.

Additional Information :

Benefits and Compensation

• KIPP SoCal Public Schools offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position. The salary range for this position is $76472 to $110885. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint of $93679 depending on qualifications internal equity and the budget allocated for this role. 
• 100% of healthcare premium costs covered by employer dependents added at 50% of the cost
• Employer-paid KIPP SoCal life insurance
• 401(k) plan with up to 6% match by KIPP SoCal
• Voluntary Benefits (Pet Insurance Supplemental Life Accident Short Term Disability etc.)
• Generous paid time off program includes 22 holidays sick leave and vacation
• Other great benefits (Flexible spending account EAP etc.)

KIPP SoCal Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex age national origin veteran status disability sexual orientation/gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

KIPP SoCal strives to ensure that our careers website is accessible to all including individuals with disabilities. If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability please contact us. You can find our contact information on our website  will be sent to a talent acquisition representative who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the hiring process.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time