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Labor and Employee Relations 

Employee Relations Manager is responsible for all aspects of managing the Employee and Labor Relations team. Duties include leading, supporting, and supervising staff, workload balancing, LR/ER trend analysis, conducting high level investigations, and consulting on a variety of complex LR/ER issues. Use deep LR/ER subject matter expertise to provide support to unit HR, Faculty, Union leadership and Managers.

• Responsible for strategic and tactical guidance to the ER/LR team as well as serve as the escalation point for complex/high priority matters
• Advise unit HR, Faculty and Managers on separation process for complex non-voluntary terminations escalated from LR/ER professional staff
• Review and approve all termination decisions for bargaining unit employees and monitor termination decisions for staff and faculty
• Oversee the LR grievance process, ensuring adherence to timelines outlined in bargained agreements; understand and advise on LR issues going to arbitration
• Serve as hearing officer for appeals heard through the staff appeal process; prepare all necessary documents and report findings
• Oversee and monitor the LR/ER investigation processes
• Oversee the administration of the University's unemployment compensation process
• Manage a team of staff members, including hiring, development, and performance management

Level:

– Principal Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates awareness of broad issues and management trends. Applies exemplary management principles. Evaluates impact of policy and adjusts accordingly. Ensures appropriate skills are developed and maintained within team/unit. Realigns staff responsibilities to meet desired changes. Provides administrative and policy direction. Develops and articulates broad goals. Fosters collaboration between units. Engages in written and verbal communications that reach a university-wide and/or broad external audience. Develops and implements solutions to highly complex and often controversial problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees teams of other supervisors/managers
– Leads a business unit

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Plans, forecasts, develops, and/or approves budgets
– Typically has final signature authority for business unit

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that may have a significant impact on multiple units and/or the University
– Regularly develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve the most difficult problems
– Creates an environment that encourages imaginative solutions to problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined and may be frequently changing
– Sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Oversees completed work of others and is accountable for unit results
– Delegates advanced tasks to others and provides guidance to team members

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– May represent the University externally
– Collaborates closely with team members and other leaders across the University
– Communicates a compelling vision that inspires and motivates others

• Comp Grade – 16
• Minimum – $123,200.00
• MidPoint – $157,100.00
• Maximum – $191,000.00