The Brearley School seeks an experienced, strategic, and hands-on Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) to guide and direct its Human Resources office, to ensure that its policies and systems support the School community, and to help build an organizational culture that reflects our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. This position will lead in the areas of employee relations and benefits plan design and selection, and participate in change management projects, and recruitment and retention strategy. In addition, the CHRO will play a key role in ensuring the School’s human resource policies and practices comply with applicable federal and state employment laws, are regularly benchmarked against peer organizations, and are aligned with the School’s mission and vision. This position will lead a significant line of work developing and implementing systems and processes to ensure compliance across all lines of Brearley’s work force and will play a key role in fostering a culture that helps to create an extraordinary environment in which to teach and learn.

Founded in 1884, The Brearley School is a center of intellectual exuberance, attracting students from across and beyond New York City. Our mission has long combined outstanding academics with an insistence on a larger purpose: to cultivate in our students a commitment to the greater good. In pursuit of this goal, we actively strive to build, nurture, and sustain a diverse faculty and student body. We are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable and antiracist school community.

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The ideal candidate must possess:

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources or related field.

• At least fifteen years of strategic human resource leadership experience, including leading an HR team.
• Strong working knowledge of applicable federal and state employment laws and of best practices for risk mitigation.

• Demonstrated proficiency in the knowledge of Ceridian Dayforce or other human capital management system, (Workday, ADP, iCIMS, etc.) with an emphasis on maximizing its functionality and leading implementations.
• Demonstrated success in all areas in which Human Resources functions, within a collaborative, fast-paced, and diverse environment and an evolving culture.
• Outstanding interpersonal, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
• Exceptional ability to meet individuals with empathy and maintain confidentiality.

• Demonstrated success in working with and gaining the trust and respect of multiple constituencies, including senior executives and staff at all levels, managing projects from idea to outcomes; strategic thinking; innovating; and navigating nimbly and effectively through changing and ambiguous situations.
• Demonstrated success centering equity and inclusion in human resources work, collaborating effectively with those leading these efforts to conduct comprehensive needs analyses, creating effective organizational structures and implementing change models – including intentional efforts to transform organizational culture – while proactively driving ongoing work.
• Track record of handling confidential and sensitive matters with discretion.

Additional preferred skills and knowledge:

• An understanding of and commitment to the mission and shared values of the School
• Senior Professional of Human Resources Certification (SPHR) or SHRM Certified Senior Professional (SHRM-SCP)
• Strong working knowledge of applicable federal and state employment laws and of best practices for risk mitigation.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish.

Compensation & Benefits

The annual salary range for this role is $195,000 to $215,000. The final salary offer will depend on a candidate’s qualifications of at least fifteen years of experience directly relevant to this role, potential to contribute, and consistent with internal equity. Brearley offers a comprehensive benefits package and generous paid vacation time. This role will be performed in-person and on site when school is in session, and is hybrid during school breaks. Brearley is a non-profit organization whose headquarters and staff are based in New York, New York.

Contact

DSG Storbeck l Diversified Search Group has been exclusively retained for this engagement, which is being led by Ruth Shoemaker Wood and Staci Williams Seeley. Screening will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. Submit a compelling cover letter and resume by filling out our Talent Profile. All inquiries are strictly confidential.

About The Brearley School

The Brearley School, an independent school for girls, was founded in 1884 to provide its students with a college-preparatory education equal in rigor to that of boys, and, in the words of the mission statement today, to prepare them for “active responsible citizenship in a democratic society.” Within a highly articulated 13-year curriculum, and with a 6:1 student-faculty ratio, teaching methods are varied, flexible and pragmatic, taking into account individual patterns of development and ways of learning. The School’s program is designed to challenge eager, able students intellectually, and to give each one the opportunity to gain competence, self-reliance and self-knowledge through academic achievement as well as experience in the visual and performing arts, sports, community service and a wide variety of extracurricular activities. Brearley’s K-12 enrollment is divided into Lower School, Middle School and Upper School, and consists of about 747 students from throughout the New York metropolitan area who represent a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and points of view.

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