Human Resources Director

FTE 1.0

Salary: $117,068-$127,965 DOE. Exempt, benefit eligible. 260 days + 9 holidays + 6 personal days. Vacation and sick days as determined by MCA. This is a PERS reporting position.

Closes 4/15/2025

Screening Begins 4/16/2025

Interviews Begin 4/28/2025

Overview:

This position oversees all human resource and labor relations functions for Kalispell Public Schools, requiring a strategic leader to manage employee relations, benefits administration, policy development, legal compliance, and collective bargaining. The role involves advising district leadership, resolving employee issues, supervising HR staff, and ensuring adherence to local, state, and federal regulations. This position also facilitates training, manages personnel records, handles recruitment, and represents the district in legal proceedings, all while acting as the Title IX coordinator and contributing to district committees and projects.

Job Responsibilities:

• Plans, directs, and integrates a broad and comprehensive range of human resource and labor relations services for Kalispell Public Schools.
• Consults and advises administrators, the superintendent, and the Board of Trustees on appropriate human resource and labor relations procedures and coaches them in carrying out their responsibilities on personnel matters.
• Counsels with employees to resolve complaints, difficulties, and other matters related to personnel management, and works with the administrators on resolving these matters.
• Supervises the human resources department, substitute management, and other programs or staff, as assigned.
• Performs labor relations, bargains, and administers all collective bargaining agreements with recognized employee groups of the District and interprets negotiated agreements to employees.
• Administers and manages employee benefits programs, and serves as a resource person regarding the District's health, dental, disability, life insurance, vision, optional retirement plans, and all forms of leave of absences.
• Monitors internal and external compliance issues; keeps apprised of legal requirements governing human resources and labor management, disseminates information, and answers legal questions.
• Directs, manages, and oversees the formulation, interpretation and implementation of applicable personnel policies and procedures, ensuring adherence to District, state and federal policies, laws, collective bargaining agreement and regulations.
• Maintains knowledge of industry trends and employment legislation and ensures compliance.
• Investigates complaints or concerns and develops appropriate courses of action based on the investigation results.
• Facilitates a wide variety of informational meetings, workshops, training or seminars, including but not limited to New Employee Orientation, benefits workshops, retirement, and staff health.
• Processes recommendations for termination of employees, assembles substantiating information for discipline of employees, and arranges any developments and events; and seeks legal counsel as necessary.
• Facilitates, co-facilitates, or advises on District committees and projects including, but not limited to: Health Insurance, Personnel/Finance, Policy, evaluations, etc., with unions, employees, trustees and community.
• Develops and maintains a system for personnel and medical records for all employees, in order to provide a comprehensive, efficient, accurate, and current record of all matters pertinent to employment, transfer, tenure, retirement, leaves, promotion, etc.
• Prepares, maintains, and assesses statistical data on administrative, certified, and classified personnel and is responsible for submission of required local, state, and federal personnel surveys, and reports.
• Plans, organizes, and represents, as assigned, the District in fact-findings, arbitration, and representation cases heard before public commissions or other bodies.
• Establishes long-range personnel and manpower plans.
• Works directly with the Business office on employee wages, benefits, leaves, and termination processing.
• Coordinates and distributes recruiting materials in cooperation with supervisory staff members; makes timely announcements of dates to be observed by applicants and employees to comply with legal requirements.
• Provides a wide variety of complex communications to include all levels of employees, in regard to benefits, wages, state and federal laws, and general contract provisions.
• Acts as the District Title IX/EEO officer.
• Acts as official designate of the Superintendent, as assigned, at appropriate stages of grievance or other procedural matters.
• Participates as an active member and attends meetings of the Administrative team, Board of Trustees, and others.
• Other duties as assigned by the Superintendent.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of theory, principles, practices and techniques of human resource administration.
• Knowledge of state and federal law, board policies, and education statutes that relate to human resources and labor relations.
• Demonstrated ability to provide innovative and responsible leadership involving others in problem solving and seeking solutions.
• Ability to effectively use technology, software, employee information systems and programs.
• Knowledge of the basic practices of confidentiality to include knowing the difference between private and public information.
• Ability to maintain effective professional relationships with district staff and the public.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from the Board, staff, and the public.
• Ability to conduct meetings and make presentations.
• Ability to write reports, school correspondence, manuals or other relevant information.
• Ability to maintain regular and acceptable attendance levels.
• Ability to model and meet a high standard of policies and protocol.
• Ability to work effectively with people from a variety of culturally diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to follow directions and multi-task.
• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business or public administration, or education; OR,
• Bachelor's degree in a related field and minimum of six years of progressively responsible human resources experience; OR,
• Master's degree in business or public administration, or educational leadership; OR
• Master's degree in a related field and minimum of four years of progressively responsible human resources experience;

Preferred Qualifications:

• Recent experience in human resources and labor relations in the public sector environment.
• Recent experience working in a school setting or school district office.
• Professional (PHR) or Senior Professional Human Resources certification (SPHR).
• Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) certified (SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP).

Physical Demands:

• Ability to stand on feet for extended periods of time, stoop, bend, lift and carry items up to 40 pounds.