Senior Human Resources Consultant

We are seeking an experienced Senior HR Consultant who will serve as a strategic advisor to assigned departments, staff, and other customers on HR matters and help further city initiatives and goals. The Senior HR Consultant will be one of three business partners providing consultative support to the city's 13 departments and a workforce of over 1500 employees. The position will collaborate with stakeholders to administer, apply, and integrate citywide approaches and policies to solve customer needs. The Senior HR Consultant will manage employee relations that include labor relations issues (e.g., investigations, grievances), workforce planning, performance management, employee engagement, inclusion and retention, and organizational training and development. This position will provide consultative support as needed to departments on workplace staffing strategies involving restructures/reorganizations, creation of new positions, and realignment of existing positions.
In the HR Department, you'll be a part of an engaged, enthusiastic team, dedicated to providing exceptional services to the city's managers and employees, and to job seekers and external partners. Bellevue employees embrace the values of innovation, integrity, stewardship, collaboration, accountability, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and take pride in the work they do. The City Council's vision is that Bellevue welcomes the world, our diversity is our strength, we embrace the future while respecting our past. HR Consulting - Provide Human Resources support to department management and employees as a strategic business partner. Through a collaborative approach, work with others in the Human Resources department to address organizational needs, either leading or advising on communications, training, team building, needs assessments, or other organizational development focused activities to proactively address departmental needs. Familiar with using organizational data to aid leadership in strategic direction and identification of opportunities to increase overall performance.
Employee & Labor Relations - Serve as an advisor to managers on handling performance or disciplinary issues, complaints and grievances, inappropriate behavior, and other aspects of employee issues that may arise. Manage complex employee relations issues from coaching up to termination. Implement policies and procedures and provisions in the collective bargaining agreements to ensure consistent application, ensuring precedence and past practice are taken into consideration. Develop and maintain respectful labor relations.
Workplace Investigations - Oversee external or conduct internal investigations as required, ensuring all parties involved are notified of the pending investigation, all parties are interviewed, a summary of findings is prepared, an action plan identified, recommended, and implemented, and all key players are provided a written summary of the findings or outcome. Maintain documentation of investigation in compliance with records retention guidelines.
Special Projects and Other Duties as Assigned - Coordinate and oversee special long-term and short-term projects as required or any other duties as assigned to further advance city initiatives and programs including those related to performance management, employee engagement, workplace culture, and organizational development.
Work is performed in a hybrid environment, with two days in office days or as needed.
Supervision Received and Exercised:
Works under the general supervision of the HR Manager.
No formal supervisory responsibilities but may act as lead to other staff and given responsibility for various HR related programs. The successful candidate must have a strong understanding of the Human Resources field, with experience advising managers on employment issues while utilizing their knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations to ensure that compliance and best practices are achieved. It is important that the individual understands HR business process systems, has great collaborative skills to build positive relationships with multi-disciplinary teams/departments, and be able to engage our customers in a way that provides the level of consultation needed to educate, inform, resolve, partner or provide the services or products requested. We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated individual with great interpersonal skills, technical knowledge, and proven experience in the HR field, who wants to join a future-focused, diversity and equity driven, high performing collaborative city team.
Education and Experience Requirements:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in Human Resources, psychology, communications, business, public administration or related field.
• Five or more years of professional related experience in Human Resources in a business partner capacity with demonstrated experience and expertise in employee and labor relations, performance management, workplace investigations, employee engagement and development, workplace planning and staffing.
• Or any equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities will be taken into consideration.
• Relevant education credentials including HR certifications (IPMA-HR, HRCI, or SHRM) highly desired but not required.
• Work Authorization: All new hires will be required to establish employment authorization and identity at the time of hire. The city is not able to sponsor work visas.

Physical Demands
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work involves getting to and from locations, talking, hearing, using hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reaching with hands and arms.
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee may be required to push, pull, lift, and/or carry up to 20 pounds.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.

For further information about this position, please contact Rebecca Su via email at rsu@bellevuewa.gov or at 425-452-6817.Employment Type: Regular