Position Title:  Director of Human Resources & Risk Management

Salary Range: $149,808 – $209,724 Annually

Agency: City of Oceanside

Job Location: Oceanside

Application Deadline: September 20, 2024

Web Listing End Date: 9/20/2024

Short Position Description
Opportunity for a Director of Human Resources & Risk Management with the City of Oceanside in Oceanside, California.
Long Position Description:

The Human Resources Director plans, organizes, and directs the Human Resources Department activities in compensation, benefits, employer/employee relations, labor relations and negotiations, recruitment and selection, classification, equal employment opportunity, risk management, liability, workers’ compensation, safety, training, and employee and organizational development, including supervision of approximately 12 current FTEs.

 

 

A generalist background is ideal and should include knowledge and abilities in the following:

  • Training, leadership development and succession planning
  • Benefit administration and program development, including managing the annual renewal process
  • Foundational understanding of classification and compensation principals, including the development of studies and long-term planning
  • Knowledge of public sector recruiting and merit principles, including modern and creative methodologies and technology
  • Strong customer service acumen, bringing a solutions-oriented mindset
  • Risk management experience
  • Labor negotiations, particularly serving as a lead negotiator, are a plus

 

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

The ideal candidate will be a high energy, flexible, collaborative, working leader. As a problem solver with excellent communication, the successful candidate will have the necessary interpersonal skills to build and maintain the existing positive working relationships with staff, department heads, leadership, and elected officials. The successful candidate will be solutions-oriented, have strong political acumen, and possess the ability to adapt to changing and competing priorities. A background in public sector budget development, policy administration, staff management, and team building are key. Experience in a union environment and knowledge of negotiations is highly desirable. The City’s next Human Resources Director will be creative and people centric as she/he continues to build on the current culture of high performance and stability, while bringing innovative programming in this post pandemic organizational structure, providing expert guidance around recruitment initiatives and succession planning, benefits’ plans, risk management, employee relations, and overall staff support. A supportive Director will have the pleasure of working with a solid, professional team committed to public and community service.

 

 
Additional Information

Key Attributes and Characteristics

  • Excellent leadership skills with a positive and calm demeanor; a leader that reassures staff while inspiring confidence
  • Detail-oriented and accurate with the ability to articulate concepts and ideas clearly and directly while giving presentation and public speaking events
  • Politically astute. Understand political implications while remaining apolitical
  • Understands the importance of mentoring staff. Is adaptable and creative and looks at situations from all perspectives to assess and improve efficiencies and implement best practices
  • The ability to work with a wide variety of personalities and communicate effectively with different personality types
  • The ability to build and foster positive interdepartmental relationships. A collaborative and supportive leader that looks for innovative solutions; a team builder with a focus on working with others to find resolutions to problems
  • A self-starter who enjoys autonomy while understanding the importance of keeping leadership updated and informed (no surprises)
  • Positive and professional. A listener



THE COMMUNITY

Oceanside has a highly-rated livability factor with an advantageous coastal locale, a thriving downtown scene, and easy access to both San Diego and Los Angeles. Oceansiders enjoy one of the most desirable climates in the country, with sunshine and coastal breezes nearly every day, plenty of open space, miles of beautiful palm-lined beaches, unique architecture, historic buildings, and an efficient transportation hub. Oceanside offers professionals some of the most affordable housing in coastal Southern California with a wide variety of housing options from beach cottages and urban condos to estate homes and agricultural properties, making Oceanside a highly sought-after community. The local economy is robust with a low unemployment rate; future Oceanside job growth is projected to be 18% over the next ten years.

 

To learn more about the City of Oceanside, please visit www.oceansideca.org.
How To Apply

For more details about this opportunity, please visit the job brochure at: https://koffassociates.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Rev4-Oceanside-HRD.pdf.

 

To be considered, please electronically submit your resume, cover letter and a list of five professional references (references will not be contacted in the early stages of the recruitment) to: https://koffassociates.com/oceanside-hr-director/. Resumes should reflect years and months of positions held, as well as size of staff and budgets you have managed.

 

For additional information, please contact:

 

Frank Rojas

(510) 495-0448

[email protected]

Website: https://koffassociates.com/  

Link To Job Posting: https://koffassociates.com/oceanside-hr-director/