Chief Human Resource Services Officer

Henry County Schools•McDonough, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) is a key member of the Executive Cabinet Leadership team, responsible for creating a performance culture that ensures a student-centered, equity-based, and results-oriented system of schools. This role addresses the needs of 21st Century learners, meets the expectations of Henry County families, and aligns with the Board of Education’s vision. The CHRO leads the district’s multi-year recruitment, induction, and retention strategy for all staff, ensuring the attraction and retention of high-quality talent. This includes overseeing hiring, evaluation, promotion, and exit processes, as well as managing employee complaints, grievances, and employment violations. The CHRO also directs staff allocation, develops competitive compensation strategies, and collaborates with the School Leadership Division to maintain a robust principal pipeline and placement strategy, ensuring effective teachers in every classroom and effective leaders in every school.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
Prior building-level and/or district office administrative experience, required.
Minimum of five years of administrative/supervisory experience, required.
Knowledge of public education and driving improvement in student achievement.
Using quantitative and qualitative information in an instructional setting to drive decision-making and evaluation.
Strong strategic planning and organizational skills.
Familiarity with systems thinking and the ability to analyze organizational situations from structural, human capital, political, and cultural perspectives.
Analyze complex situations and synthesize information carefully to develop an effective course of action.
Communicate tactfully, appropriately, and effectively with individuals and groups, including the Board of Education, Superintendent, Executive Cabinet team, the Board Attorney, district staff, local school staff, and the community.
Exhibit a consistent sense of urgency around improving student performance, closing the achievement gap, and making the instructional improvements needed to do so.
Ability to make challenging decisions, remain professional under stress, and possess exceptional judgement.
Coach others to drive student achievement gains.
Work collaboratively to build consensus while also delivering exceptional results.
Collaborate and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Be flexible, resilient and adaptable to changing priorities.
Commit to high performance standards and maintain an unwavering belief that all students can excel.
Exceptional integrity, commitment to confidentiality, excellent character, and strong professional reputation.
Ability to abide by the Georgia Professional Standards Code of Ethics for Educators.
Must be regularly, predictably, and reliably at work.
Must perform tasks involving prolonged periods of standing, walking, and sitting. Some kneeling required.
May be required to perform routine physical activities such as bending and lifting/pushing/pulling up to 50 pounds.
Vision, hearing, written, and verbal communications are essential factors in performing required tasks.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Georgia Leadership certification, preferred.
SHRM or pHCLE certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as a key member of the Superintendent’s executive leadership team, acting as a strategic leader and spokesperson on behalf of the Superintendent and Henry County Schools.
Communicate with the Board on behalf of, and in coordination with, the Superintendent as appropriate.
Positively and proactively participate in leadership meetings, representing the Superintendent and district priorities.
Advise and lead the development and implementation of the district’s multi-year staffing strategy, including forecasting, recruitment, placement, and retention of effective teachers, innovative staffing models, recruitment, placement, and retention for non-instructional staff roles, and a principal pipeline and placement.
Promote a culture of performance and a positive working and learning environment.
Provide leadership and direction in attracting and retaining a diverse workforce.
Provide leadership for the Division of Human Resources including employee relations, classification and compensation, evaluation systems, staffing, substitute teachers and staff, and compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.
Direct the planning, development, coordination, and evaluations of operations for the Human Resources Division, including the establishment of division goals and make recommendations for improvements.
Ensure strong, on-going communications with Principals and district leaders about on-going staffing needs with thoughtful and creative approaches to anticipating and quickly filling vacancies.
Develop and recommend district policies addressing the personnel needs of the district.
Direct consistent processes for screening, selection, promoting, reorganizing, and dismissing employees in all departments of the district office, including executive cabinet review and Superintendent approval.
Design an efficient, informative, and comprehensive on-boarding process that introduces new staff members into the culture of the Henry County Schools and ensures they have all of the resources necessary to have a strong start.
Provide leadership on systemic projects in the area of Human Resources, employment management, and technical solutions to improve Human Resource processes.
Promote a performance culture and a performance management strategy in the Division of Human Resources and in schools and assist principals and supervisors in the performance evaluation of all certified and classified personnel, including remediation plans and non-renewal plans when needed.
Facilitate the development of growth and development opportunities for district-level and school-level staff.
Monitor the staffing at school including first day vacancies, time-to-fill, and rate of filling sub requests. Put improvement plans in place when needed.
Serve as the district’s representative and spokesperson in employee matters and manage the process for employee claims, investigations, and due process.
Prepare for and attend all meetings and trainings of the Board of Education.
Perform other duties as required.