Director of Human Resources

Summary\n\n Provides strategic leadership and oversight of all human resources functions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, legal requirements, and best practices.\n Serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and management, supporting employee relations, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness.\n Leads efficient, equitable, and compliant HR operations by leveraging data, technology, and continuous improvement to support a high-performing workplace culture.\n Serves as the organization's Title IX Coordinator, overseeing compliance, investigations, training, and response processes to ensure adherence to federal and institutional Title IX requirements.\n \nEssential Job Functions\n\n Provide strategic leadership for the human resources function by developing and administering HR policies, programs, and practices that align with the college's mission, values, and strategic priorities, including direct supervision of Payroll and Benefits staff. Estimated time: 25%\n Ensure compliance and manage institutional risk by overseeing adherence to federal and state employment laws and higher-education regulations, including Title IX, ADA, FLSA, FMLA, and related reporting and training requirements, with functional oversight of payroll- and benefits-related compliance activities. Estimated time: 20%\n Lead employee relations and performance management efforts by advising leadership, addressing workplace concerns, supporting performance evaluation processes, and ensuring consistent application of policies. Estimated time: 15%\n Oversee recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and retention for faculty and staff to support workforce planning, diversity, and institutional effectiveness, coordinating with search committees and administrative partners as needed. Estimated time: 15%\n Serve as the Title IX Coordinator by overseeing Title IX policies, training, investigations, case management, and response processes to ensure equitable, timely, and compliant resolution of matters. Estimated time: 15%\n Administer compensation, benefits, and position classification programs by ensuring equitable pay practices, competitive benefits offerings, and alignment with budgetary and regulatory requirements, including direct supervision of benefits administration and payroll operations. Estimated time: 5%\n Develop and deliver training and professional development initiatives for faculty, staff, and supervisors related to compliance, leadership, and workplace expectations. Estimated time: 5%\n A bachelor's degree in human resources management, business administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.\n 3 - 5 years' human resources experience working as HR Business Partner or Director of Human Resources.\n Professional certification in Human Resources (PHR) and/or SHRM-CP desired.\n \nNOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION:\u202fApplicants for admission and employment, students, parents of students, employees, sources of referral for admission and employment, and all unions or professional organizations holding collective bargaining or professional agreements with Simpson College\u202fare hereby notified\u202fthat this institution does not discriminate\u202fon the basis of\u202frace, color, national origin, sex, age, creed, religion, disability, genetic information, veteran or veteran disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected characteristic in admission, access to, treatment or employment in, its programs and activities. Any persons having inquiries concerning Simpson College's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI, Title VII, Title IX\u202f\u2013\u202fSection 504, or Americans with Disabilities Act\u202fare directed\u202fto contact Director of Human Resources, Simpson College, 701 North C Street, Indianola, Iowa 50125-1299,\u202f(515) 961-1511. Persons may also contact the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, regarding the institution's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI, Title VII, Title IX\u202f\u2013\u202fSection 504, or Americans with Disabilities Act. \n \nTITLE IX:\u202fSimpson College does not discriminate in its employment practices or in its educational programs or activities on the basis of sex/gender. Simpson College also prohibits retaliation against any person opposing discrimination or participating in any discrimination investigation or complaint process internally or externally. Reports of misconduct, questions regarding Title IX, and concerns about non-compliance should be directed to the Title IX Coordinator. For a complete copy of the policy, more information, or to report an instance of sex or gender-based discrimination, please contact the Title IX Coordinator (titleix@simpson.edu) and/or the Assistant Secretary of Education within the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)\u202fhttps://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/complaintintro.html.\u202f \n \nThe College is committed\u202fto providing a safe and productive learning and living community.\u202f To achieve that goal, we conduct background investigations for all candidates being considered for employment. Background checks may include but\u202fare not limited\u202fto criminal history, national sex offender search, and motor vehicle history. Simpson's annual security compliance document is available on the\u202fSimpson Security website. To comply with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986,\u202fyou will\u202fbe required\u202fto, upon being made an offer of employment, produce documents that\u202fare specified\u202fby the federal government to establish your identity and right to work in the United States. These documents must\u202fbe produced\u202fno later than seventy-two (72) hours after beginning paid employment.\u202fQuestions?\u202fContact the Human Resources department at\u202femployment@simpson.edu \n \nSIMPSON COLLEGE PROMOTES A CLEAR AIR LEARNING AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT.\u202fSMOKING IS PROHIBITED\u202fON COLLEGE PROPERTY. \n\n