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WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY Senior People and Talent Business Partner in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
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The Senior People and Talent Business Partner will support the business, by providing strategic guidance to ensure effective planning and implementation of people initiatives. This is a senior-level individual contributor position working with and supporting all levels of leadership to build leadership talent, manage culture, enhance employee engagement, and ensure that decisions and actions are centered on doing the right thing. This individual will have broad accountability for organization results and is an individual with the ability to partner and influence without having official organizational people management responsibility. This individual will effectively assimilate information, identify appropriate actions or solutions, and will have a capacity for dealing with ambiguity and change. The ideal candidate for this role has passion for the employee experience, believes in employee potential, and has the humility that comes from understanding a diverse set of personal situations and limitations.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Fosters and builds trusted advisor relationships with assigned business leaders. * Manages complex People and Talent projects and practices cross-organizationally. This includes competency model, talent assessment, succession planning, employee engagement, career development, talent management, talent development, change management, performance management. * Analyzes trends and metrics in partnership with the People and Talent team to develop solutions, programs and policies. * Works closely with business leaders to improve working relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention. * Partners with business leaders to manage culture and enhance employee experience. * Facilitates group learning activities and ad hoc leadership discussions to build leadership competencies. * Provides guidance and input on restructures, workforce planning, talent selection, leadership acquisition. * Identifies employee and leadership development gaps and collaborates with the People and Talent Learning Team to identify plans in order to close gaps. * Participates in operational and strategic business department meetings with senior leadership. * Manages and resolves complex employee relations issues. Conducts effective, confidential, thorough and objective investigations leading to actions or solutions for resolution. * Maintains in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of people, reducing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. * Spearheads people initiatives to ensure clear understanding, articulation of and application of initiative. * Represents business... For full info follow application link.
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