The Director of People & Culture reports directly to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and maintains close relationships with the Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents across eight market sectors. The Director of People & Culture will have clear visibility into the company’s operations and executive management and partner with the CAO to carry out our vision. In doing so, this individual must lead the organization in being talent-focused and creating a diverse, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative workforce. Primary responsibilities include directing RESPEC’s talent management, development, and recruiting and potentially overseeing the remaining human resource (HR) functions.Employee Leadership Representative: Understand RESPEC’s growth and operational strategy, as well as its PACT (Passion, Accountability, Caring, Teamwork) culture. Programs that are designed, recommended, and/or initiated by this individual and their team will represent RESPEC’s strategy and culture and continue to brand that strategy and culture through all of RESPEC’s people processes and initiatives.Recruiting: Review actual and targeted demographics for RESPEC in partnership with market sector leaders and continuously develop a strategic approach to recruiting that builds a diverse, talented, and motivated workforce.  The individual will lead RESPEC’s recruiting activities and programs to ensure the recruiting channels are optimized and the desired key talent is being sourced, placed, and hired.  In the recruiting area, this individual will both direct and perform the responsibilities, while partnering, or cultivating an HR team that partners with the market sectors.Employee Recognition and Performance: Work with senior management and committees comprising business unit personnel and continue to evolve RESPEC’s employee recognition programs that create a motivated and appreciated workforce. RESPEC uses monthly one-on-one employee feedback methods organizationally to drive growth and development through connectedness. This individual will direct and or actively contribute industry and best practice guidance to supervisors regarding individual employee performance conversations.Talent Management: Partner with the market sectors and committees to provide direction to RESPEC’s current and future training/career development programs to ensure RESPEC employees are provided an environment for continual growth and development opportunities. This direction includes ensuring RESPEC employees are compensated competitively, performance feedback is optimized, have opportunities for professional/personal growth, and programs are in place to ensure RESPEC’s various geographies support its core values and RESPEC culture. In the talent management area, this individual will both direct and perform the responsibilities specific to employee experience through continuous improvement, consistent levels of quality service directly to employees but equally to market sectors while developing a cohesive team of accountable and proficient HR professionals. In addition, the successful candidate will demonstrate and embrace the energy levels needed to direct all and perform many of the recruiting and talent management programs and activities across RESPEC’s various locations across the U.S. and Canada.HR Department Oversight: Outside of recruiting and talent management, RESPEC’s HR Operations Department manages the benefit programs, payroll and reporting, and HR related compliance. This individual may, over time, manage and direct the responsibilities of the HR team currently performing these tasks who currently reports through the CFO. Regardless, the CAO and the Director of People & Culture will work closely with the CFO to ensure proper oversight and division of responsibilities.
