MANAGER, HUMAN RESOURCES

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GEO provides complementary, turnkey solutions for numerous government partners worldwide across a spectrum of diversified correctional and community reentry services.

This position focuses on serving the needs, concerns and objectives of both managers and our employees through building effective partnerships and by creating trust and mutual respect. It leads the administration and implementation of Human Resources (HR) policies, programs and practices throughout the facility and acts as the liaison between the facility management and Regional/Corporate HR.

Responsibilities include serving as an advisor to the Facility Administrator and facility management on Human Resources issues, supporting local recruiting and outreach efforts, assisting with progressive discipline, standards of employee conduct and employee terminations, supporting reporting serious staff misconduct to the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), engaging employees and acting as a conduit to provide facility management, Regional HR and Corporate HR insight into employee concerns, responsible for employee onboarding, responsible for maintaining records of insurance coverage, retirement plans, and personnel transactions, serving as EEO specialist and maintaining affirmative action plan, serving as subject matter expert for leaves of absences, FMLA and ADA issues, ensuring compliance with Company policies and procedures, reviewing facility personnel procedures to ensure that they are applicable, effective, and comply with contract requirements, local, state and federal law, and Company policies, procedures, resolving employee personnel inquiries, managing an assigned human resources staff, coordinating grievance and disciplinary hearings and activities, coordinating benefit programs, annual enrollment, and employee wellness program at facility, monitoring unemployment claims, assisting with appeals and attending hearings as the Human Resources representative, partnering with facility management to ensure the performance appraisal program is compliant and effective, providing guidance on compensation, bonuses and other recognition programs, monitoring and coordinating workers' compensation claims, providing necessary referral support for the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and performing other duties as assigned.

Minimum requirements include a high school diploma with a minimum of seven (7) years of progressive professional experience in Human Resources or a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Human Resources or related field with five (5) years of experience working in a Human Resources position, three (3) years supervisory experience preferred, leadership qualities to gain the respect of all employees, ability and desire to work in a cooperative manner and to make management decisions, experience working with an HR Information System required, ability to maintain confidentiality, ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Windows, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and other computer programs and software normally used by HR, active, valid driver's license, at least twenty-one (21) years of age or older, and a United States Citizen.