
Human Resources Business Partner
KIPP SoCal Public Schools
🇺🇸 United States
Hybrid
106 months ago
- Risk Management
- AI
- OSHA
- Equity
- Pension
106 months ago
Key Responsibilities
- Courageous Accountability: Identify performance gaps in your portfolio early; partner with leaders to implement documented, high-quality support plans that reach a definitive resolution swiftly.
- Just Culture Implementation: Train and coach leaders to use the Just Culture Rubric to distinguish between human error, at-risk behavior, and reckless behavior in disciplinary actions.
- On-the-Ground Diagnostic & Thought Partnership: Maintain a consistent presence in schools to proactively monitor adult culture. Partner with school leaders to move beyond treating symptoms by identifying root-cause issues and serving as a consultant to reveal gaps in accountability.
- Intervention Design & Evaluation: Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of cultural interventions, from designing high-impact strategies to evaluating their efficacy. Use ER metrics and qualitative data to build compelling cases for systemic change, ensuring that interventions result in a measurable decrease in repeat incidents and a sustained high-performance environment.
- High-Efficacy ER: Manage complex investigations and employee relations incidents with rigor and speed, aiming for closure within 5–10 school days.
- Talent Risk Mitigation: Guide leaders through difficult transitions (terminations, exits) ensuring the process is legally sound, human-centered, and culturally reinforcing.
- Data-Informed Advocacy: Translate retention trends and survey data into actionable "leadership moves" for school management.
- AI Integration: Ethically leverage AI as a strategic "co-pilot" to accelerate workflows and drive innovation within the Talent & Equity team.
- Compliance & Safety: Oversee Workers’ Compensation administration, OSHA reporting, and reasonable accommodation requests with meticulous attention to detail.
Strategic Performance Coaching & Culture (60%)
Employee Relations & Risk Management (25%)
Operational Excellence & Innovation (15%)
The Qualifications & Competencies
- Coaching & Influence: Ability to move leaders from defensiveness to action and coach them through the discomfort of high-stakes conversations.
- Systems Thinking and Data Analysis: Ability to identify patterns in adult behavior and school-site systems that undermine accountability.
- Organizational Diagnostics: Expertise in using retention and ER data to build cases for cultural shifts.
- 5–7 years of relevant HR or Organizational Development experience.
- Thorough knowledge of all federal, state and local employment and workers' compensation laws
- Demonstrated track record as an HR Partner in a fast-paced multi-site organization (500+ FTEs); experience within a Charter Management Organization (CMO) or the K-12 education sector is strongly preferred.
- Deep commitment to upholding KIPP SoCal’santi-racism standards and promoting a high performance adult culture.
- Ability to travel frequently to KIPP SoCal schools.
- Valid California Driver’s License.
Role-Specific Skills
Standard Qualifications
Compensation & Benefits
- KIPP SoCal Public Schools offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position. The salary range for this position is $76,472 to $110,885.New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint of $93,679 depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budget allocated for this role.Â
- 100% of healthcare premium costs covered by employer, dependents added at 50% of the cost
- Employer-paid KIPP SoCal life insurance
- 401(k) plan with up to 6% match by KIPP SoCal
- Voluntary Benefits (Pet Insurance, Supplemental Life, Accident, Short Term Disability, etc.)
- Generous paid time off program includes 22 holidays, sick leave, and vacation
- Other great benefits (Flexible spending account, EAP, etc.)
Human Resources Business Partner · KIPP SoCal Public Schools