• Lead the school’s L&D programs, develop and implement comprehensive and effective on-boarding and training programs.
• Monitor the organizational design to ensure the school can deliver high quality services and learning experience to its students. Lead all school re-organization projects.
• Deliver HR communications to employees.
• Plan and deliver employee engagement and acknowledgement events/projects

Operational:

• Maintain an HR database and report on HR costs; Forecast staffing costs.
• Plan, lead, develop and implement policies, processes, training, initiatives, and surveys to support the organization’s human resource compliance and strategy needs.
• Review and update Employee Handbook, develop and implement SOPs and policies as required.
• Oversee the administration of human resource programs including, but not limited to, compensation, benefits, and leave; disciplinary matters; disputes and investigations; performance and talent management; productivity, recognition, and morale; occupational health and safety; and training and development.
• Identify staffing and recruiting needs; develop and execute best practices for hiring and talent management in collaboration with faculty leadership.
• Develop and implement HR departmental budget.
• Support Director of Finance and division heads in creating divisional and school budget.
• Oversee benefits offering and ensure that it is cost effective while maintaining a competitive offering in the employment market.
• Maintain an open-door policy to encourage employees to share their insights, feedback, grievances and ideas.
• Align payroll systems with employee benefits, tax planning, and financial reporting.
• Resolve complex payroll issues and provide expert advice on matters such as tax laws, compensation, and benefits.
• Prepare and review payroll-related financial reports, budgets, and forecasts for senior management.
• Partner with HR Manager on managing compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour laws and tax obligations. Review and approve payroll.
• Conduct regular audits of payroll and retirement procedures to identify and rectify discrepancies and to ensure continuous compliance.
• Provide data, feedback and advice to the head and the personnel and pension committee of the board of trustees.

Tactical:

• Manage FASNY’s employee immigration related projects. J1,2 visas, H1B visas, Green- card applications. (Must be a US Citizen due to immigration sponsorship portal requirements.)
• Lead recruitment committee. Support division head with their talent acquisition efforts, lead search for all senior positions.
• Lead personnel committee. Provide market intelligence, benchmarking data to ensure retention of talent and that the school maintains a competitive position in the employment market.
• Lead pension committee and be the key administrator on the school’s retirement plan.
• Oversee the school’s payroll, benefits and HRIS systems and processes, serve as a back- up to HR Manager.
• Attend all disciplinary and performance improvement meeting with employees. Coach managers on how to deliver these conversations.
• Attend all exit meeting.
• Create and implement an engaging open-enrollment process.
• Ensure the completion of all mandated surveys and peer reporting (AEFE), BEDS (New York State), NAIS Stats online, Fairchester Survey, etc.)

                     Legal:

• Monitor and ensure the school’s compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; review and modify policies and practices to maintain compliance.
• Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law; applies this knowledge to communicate changes in policy, practice, and resources to school leadership.
• In collaboration with outside counsel, manage all employee relation related claims and litigation.
• Ensure that all offer letters, employment agreements, termination letters and separation agreements are compliant with federal and state law, reflect the school’s policies.

Required competencies and experience:

• 10+ years in senior HR leadership.
• Strong communications skills, ability to influence stakeholders and decision makers.
• Culture champion and change agent.
• Creating and implementing SOPs, policies, frameworks.
• In-depth knowledge of US federal and NYS employment laws.
• In depth knowledge of US immigration laws. (Must be a US Citizen to manage immigration portal.)
• Having led and developed HR team members.
• Ability to speak French strongly preferred.
• Experience with working in private educational institution preferred.
• BA in HR or relevant field of study.
• SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP highly preferred.
• Working knowledge of New York and federal employment HR-related laws and regulations.
• Ability to develop and implement strategic HR initiatives.
• Ability to align payroll systems with employee benefits, tax planning, and financial reporting.
• Resolving complex payroll issues and providing expert advice on matters such as tax laws, compensation, and benefits.
• Preparing and reviewing payroll-related financial reports, budgets, and forecasts for senior management.
• Partner with HR Manager on managing compliance with federal, state, and local payroll, wage, and hour laws and tax obligations.
• Conducting regular audits of payroll and retirement procedures to identify and rectify discrepancies and to ensure continuous compliance.

Application Process:

Interested candidates please submit both a resume and cover letter. We will review applications in the next following weeks so applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

FASNY is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We actively encourage all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation to apply.

We regret that we will not be able to respond to all applicants.

Only those of interest will be contacted.

Thank you for your interest in FASNY.