Assistant Vice President of People Operations & Experience
Rutgers Foundation

• Lead and enhance an enterprise-wide team that provides a value-add across the organization, while establishing and refining systems that remove barriers, burdens, and redundancies for employees, elevating the overall workplace experience within RUF.
   
• Manage human resources strategies by establishing department accountabilities, including talent acquisition, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, training and development, records management, safety and health, succession planning, employee relations and retention, AA/EEO compliance, and labor relations.
   
• Gather feedback on employee wellness and productivity to inform culture strategies.
   
• Assist in developing succession planning organizational-wide.
   
• Build upon an established infrastructure that ensures all employees will have the support they need to succeed.
   
• Manage and review employee benefit programs annually.
   
• Serve as a confidential reporting party for Foundation staff for personal and professional challenges.
   
• Supervise the Director of Employee Experience and in tandem establish diversity, equity & inclusion (DE&I) protocols; host workshops and seminars for RUF staff and provide resources, both internally and externally.
   
• Other duties as assigned.

• Ability to execute and deliver successful complex pan-university initiatives.
   
• Inspire, develop, and lead a team.
   
• Demonstrate commitment to organizational purpose, values, and priorities.
   
• Influence and inspire colleagues, volunteers, team members, and partners.
   
• Demonstrate knowledge and sophisticated understanding of inclusion for all constituents.
   
• Demonstrate the ability to operate autonomously.

• Able to deliver on goals and metrics for your operational portfolio (directly and indirectly).
   
• Sustain and elevate working relationships with internal and external partners.
   
• Set the operational goals and vision for the department.
   
• Builds organizational consensus with partners and team members.
   
• Proactively problem-solve and critically think about implications outside one’s direct portfolio and within the enterprise.
   
• Able to identify, design, and recommend solutions to executive leadership, department-wide managers, and employees’ enterprise-wide.
   
• Able to define the meaning of success and the intended impact of programs and initiatives.

• Demonstrate an ability to create an increasingly more complex operational strategy and work collaboratively with other areas within the organization.
   
• Effective in the translation of complex initiatives, ideas, and operationalization of the organization's purpose.
   
• Demonstrate the ability to lead cross-functional projects across the organizational enterprise and university.
   
• Develop the actual strategies to fulfill the vision of executive leadership.
   
• Quickly gain knowledge and understanding of one's responsible area and the university/enterprise.
   
• Understand the impact of decisions within the areas of responsibility and the effect on other areas of the organization and university.

• Lead the team effectively and execute comprehensive department/project/program strategy.
   
• Serve as a member of the organization’s management team.
   
• Present and represent projects to university leadership.
   
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage and lead a team in a way that maximizes the potential of each team member.
   
• Ability to lead, assess, reimagine, and lead new initiatives.
   
• Ability to translate and through communication help others understand complexity.
   
• Has a sense of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
   
• Proactive thinking, through a mastery of prioritization and the ability to negotiate.
   
• Bring forth positive and constructive feedback that affects the future of the organization.
   
• Ability to be consistent with owning your voice.
   
• Critical thinking and ability to challenge accepted concepts.
   
• Confidence and competence in executing leadership for their teams and areas to advance the organization.
   
• Asking the right questions by using skillset and experience of the institution.
   
• Multiplier approach/mentality with a cross-functional native genius.
   
• Organizationally minded and enterprise focused with thoughtfulness on how decisions impact other departments not in their purview.
   
• High level of self-awareness and political/nuance awareness.

Bachelor's degree and 7-10 years of progressively responsible experience in human resources, preference will be given to experience in non-profit or higher education. Master’s degree preferred.

Clarity of focus while juggling complex projects or deadlines.

This is classified as an office-centric hybrid position. Colleagues working under an office-centric hybrid arrangement have a primary workstation in a university or foundation location and are in the office between one and five days a week. The frequency with which they are present in the office depends on their role and function and the interdependency of other functions.

This position requires little physical effort. Will work evenings, weekends, or odd hours to meet resource-raising commitments. Typical working conditions with an absence of disagreeable elements. This position requires some early mornings and late evenings to accommodate meetings, travel, events, and external constituent’s schedules.

• Office-centric hybrid work schedule.
   
• Comprehensive medical.
   
• Comprehensive no cost dental, and no cost vision insurance for employee and dependents.
   
• 403(b) plan with matching employer contribution.
   
• Accrual of 3 weeks of annual vacation time, in addition to 5 wellness days per year.
   
• 9 holidays, as well as 4 floating holidays.
   
• Parental leave.
   
• Significant tuition reductions.
   
• Professional development is highly valued at the Rutgers University Foundation, where employees are encouraged to look across the organization to develop new skills and abilities for professional career progression.
   
• $40 monthly cell phone reimbursement.