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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

● Lead the HR function and team. ● Design the long-term HR vision and strategic plans with buy-in and feedback from the organization. ● Coach and develop a team of HR generalists.● Lead communications and change management for new initiatives and redesigned programs.● Implemented, resigned, or significantly improved a variety of HR programs, including Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance Management, HR business partnership, and workforce planning.● Partner with the CEO and Executive Team to tackle complex business issues. ● Act as management coach and HR business partner, consulting with senior leaders on talent plans and employee relations.● Design and deliver large scale training sessions.● Monitor state and federal employment laws, rules, and regulations.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

● Design, manage, and spearhead equitable and effective HR programs, processes, and policies that increase the organization’s capacity to fulfill its mission. This work spans the entire talent lifecycle, including recruitment and selection, onboarding, compensation, benefits, talent development, employee engagement, leadership development, employee relations, compliance, reporting, and offboarding.● Collaboratively design the long-term HR vision and annual strategic plans.● Design leadership development opportunities and coach managers.● Serve as HR business partner to leaders and teams across the organization.● Lead the implementation and improvement of the annual performance evaluation system to increase organizational alignment, better facilitate high-quality feedback and development conversations, and increase equity.● Manage a compensation study to redesign our job structures and pay bands to increase equity, transparency, competitiveness, and career laddering. ● Design communications and change management planning for new initiatives and redesigned programs. Influence the most senior leaders to change practices and take ownership of talent plans for their divisions.● Lead employee engagement activities including surveying, analysis, and collaborative design of solutions and problem-solving.● Lead HR data analysis and reporting including the HRIS system.● Monitor state and federal employment laws, rules, and regulations.

Serve on the Governance Committee at Sela PCS - a bilingual elementary charter school here in Washington, DC.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

● McKinsey-trained coach, consultant, and business partner focused on developing client’s leadership skills such as vision, strategy, prioritization, progress monitoring, performance management, employee engagement, and employee relations.● Trusted advisor and coach to a rotating cohort of 20+ senior leaders; built trusted relationships quickly.● Researched and synthesized quantitative and qualitative data to develop insights; present in clear, and influential manner.● Lead organizational transformation efforts. Persuaded large teams to adopt difficult new ways of working that are more consistent, efficient, and effective, allowing those teams to achieve more of their goals in a shorter timeframe. ● Conduct annual strategic planning that enables teams to unite behind a single direction. Conduct progress monitoring that allows teams to know early and often whether and how to course correct.● Develop, manage, and conduct large scale training experiences; facilitate teams (large and small) to achieve goals.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

● Directed all school operations including student enrollment, budgeting, procurement, facilities, and human resources. Directly managed 5 school-operations employees. Indirectly managed 40 teachers and support staff. ● Acted as chief advisor to Principal on leadership, organizational, and personnel issues like schoolwide plans, policies, and systems that increase efficiency and center equity & inclusion.● Lead talent acquisition, employee engagement, employee relations, and payroll processes for the organization.● Coordinated a $25M school renovation, including design, construction, and temporary relocation during construction. Achieved alignment and partnership between various city agencies, school staff, and parent community.● Draft all external communications; lead internal follow through from parent/community engagements by managing next steps and mobilizing internal staff, resulting in increased parent engagement and more buy-in from the community.● Redesigned and streamlined our student enrollment process, increasing transparency and efficiency, and exceeding District benchmarks and timelines for student recruitment and registration.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

● Overhauled the Substitute Teacher program for DC Public Schools. Consulted with School Principals to create and enforce policies and procedures for over 1000 Substitutes and 110 schools. Managed a $10M budget and two direct reports.● Revamped the strategy and processes for recruitment, selection, and onboarding of new Substitute Teachers to support equitable hiring and collaborating with state and district agencies to streamline requirements. ● Successful program management nearly doubled the pool from 600 to over 1000 high-quality and diverse Substitute Teachers, increasing the effectiveness of the teaching as well as the substitute daily fill-rate (from 65% to 95%).● Designed and executed systems and processes to implement complex policies, including 3-5 training sessions per year for school administrators and 20-30 training/onboarding sessions per year for new substitutes, resulting in substantial increase in policy compliance and operational process efficiency.● Revamped the selection and hiring process for 800 Afterschool staff and 650 Summer School staff, saving hundreds of hours of waste. Created processes for enforcing HR and staffing regulations with more clarity, transparency, and buy-in from stakeholders; collaborated to find creative solutions for staffing needs. ● Performed routine analysis and reporting to Senior Management and educational oversight bodies.● Acted as HR Business Partner to select school leaders, consulting with them on HR practices.● Promoted in August, 2014

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Served as Title I policy expert, providing analysis and findings on best practices that serve desired outcomes for student achievement• Conducted large-group training and one-on-one coaching to school principals to help them understand and comply with the regulations attached to their funding, especially Title I policy.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Managed new student recruitment across six states; reviewed more than 600 applications per year; led weekly information and training sessions for groups as large as 150; Promoted in September of 2009.