HealthierHere is now hiring for the role of Director of People and Culture! See the position details and how to apply below.

Reports To: Chief Executive Officer

Classification: Full-time/Exempt

Hiring Pay Range: $130,000-$150,000

Benefits: 100% Paid by employer: medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, LTD. 403(b) Retirement matched at 5%; increasing to 10% over time, 100% immediate vesting. PTO: 3 weeks’ vacation, 2 weeks sick, 4 wellness days, 13 holidays, $750 annual wellness benefit, and optional Flex plan and dependent coverage.

Work Location: Currently we are fully remote. A hybrid approach is planned for mid-2024 with a location in King County, WA

Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

How to Apply:

To apply, please send your resume to: Taylor Williamson, HR Recruitment Consultant – taylor-williamson@healthierhere.org with “Director of People and Culture” in the subject line.

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Position Overview

This position is responsible for overseeing and shaping the human resource’s function, culture, and values, ensuring the organization’s culture aligns with its mission and strategic goals.This includes leading and executing all people and culture activities, such as hiring, employee operations, compensation, talent development, and organizational development. Additionally, this position is responsible for creating and implementing a strategic talent roadmap that identifies and develops high potential in collaboration with appropriate leaders. This position is also responsible for operationalizing the HealthierHere’s culture charter.

Major Responsibilities

Human Resources

• Serve as a leader of human resources and engagement, ensuring a well understood mission, vision and values that are lived and felt throughout the organization and drive strong levels of employee engagement.
• Manage, mentor, and continuously develop the organization into a highly performing, highly engaged team.
• Develop innovative solutions to increase talent diversity in support of organizations strategy.
• Execute a comprehensive compensation and benefit approach that supports acquisition and retention of top talent.
• Collaborative partner to the senior leadership team, ensuring alignment between each department by providing insight, solutions-oriented and empathetic problem solving.
• Manage the people and culture operating budget, including employee salaries and benefits.
• Leverage data and systems thinking to operationalize and guide decisions regarding hiring, talent development programs, and retention. Identify key performance indicators and assess organizations success and market competitiveness based on those metrics.
• Serve as a lead for all people and culture related policies and procedures to ensure consistency across the organization.
• Understand and communicate appropriate legislative laws and ensure compliance.
• Appropriately handle all employee relation issues.

Organizational Culture

• Align departments with the organization’s mission, vision, and values.
• Act as a liaison between employees and executives’ management team.
• Set the tone for communication across the organization.
• Cultivate an emotional connection among executives and other employees—in other words, the organization as a whole.
• Plan and carry out events and team-building initiatives for employees.
• Establish collaboration practices.
• Ignite thought-leadership projects.
• Communicate the organization’s culture goals through internal communications, staff meetings, and one-on-ones.
• Conduct interviews to follow up on cultural initiatives.
• Evaluate the relationship between those initiatives and indicators such as the turnover rate.
• Identify and analyze problems related to organizational culture and develop effective solutions.

Leadership: helps guide and sustain the organization. Actively participates in setting organizational vision, values, and performance expectations. Participates in strategic and action planning and direction of organization.

Project Management: Ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects, tasks and execute deliverables on time, within scope and budget. Works independently to plan, organize, and implement public health activities. Ability to systematically analyze complex problems, draw relevant conclusions and implement appropriate solutions.

Stakeholder Focus and Business Orientation: Anticipate stakeholders’ needs and understand stakeholders’ organization to be able to propose solutions readily; maintain effective working relationships with members of GHN.

Dependability: Demonstrate responsive and responsible behavior in fast-paced setting.

Ethics and Integrity: Fulfills the public responsibilities of the organization ensuring that the organization behaves in a legally and ethically appropriate way.

Proactive: Track assignments and projects for multiple programs; anticipate team needs and outcomes.

Teamwork: Understand perspectives and abilities of team members where individual goals may differ. Assess strengths and challenges in team members; contribute based on assessment and personal level of experience or expertise. Work effectively with program staff, stakeholders, and other affected parties.

Time Management: Plan and manage time effectively. Identify and handle competing workload priorities. Make effective decisions and take appropriate action within short timeframes and deadlines.

Oral and Written Communication: Effectively convey ideas clearly both orally and in writing by using Plain Talk principles and the standardized rules of language. Written documents are clear, direct, and succinct. Use tact and diplomacy in handling correspondence or in direct contacts. Experience in public speaking and media presentation.

Demonstration of Team Values

• Commitment to Equity: Work to advance equity, racial and social justice.
• Leadership: Lead by example, maintain professionalism, and leverage communication strategies to promote effective organization change and culture development.
• Teamwork: Work effectively and respectfully with staff, stakeholders, and community.
• Efficiency: Manage and prioritize multiple projects, tasks and execute deliverables on time, within scope and budget.
• Dependability: Demonstrate responsive and responsible behavior in a fast-paced setting.
• Integrity: Earn the trust, respect, and confidence of co-workers, stakeholders and community, through honest, forthright, and professional interactions and respect.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field.
• 10 + years of experience in human resources, organizational development, or a related field.
• Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) or Society for Human Resource Management Certified Professional (SHRM-CP).
• Demonstrated understanding of employment laws and regulations, including laws related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Ability to think strategically and align culture strategies with the organization’s mission, values, and goals.
• Ability to develop and implement culture strategies, engage and retain employees, and manage change effectively.
• Demonstrated business acumen to align culture strategies with the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Knowledge of best practices in Organizational Development and be able to apply them to improve the organization's culture.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to be able to communicate effectively with employees, the leadership team, and stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal skills to be able to build relationships with employees, understand their needs, and resolve conflicts effectively.
• Well-developed emotional intelligence, which will help them understand employee needs and respond to them accordingly.
• Solid understanding of different cultures and be able to create an inclusive and equitable culture for all employees.
• Demonstrated experience in HR leadership roles within the healthcare industry, preferably in a nonprofit or community health setting. Understanding the unique challenges and dynamics of the healthcare sector is essential for effectively supporting HealthierHere's mission.
• Expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive employee wellness and resilience programs. This includes strategies to address burnout, compassion fatigue, and mental health challenges commonly faced in the healthcare industry.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, or organizational restructuring, while maintaining employee morale, engagement, and productivity. This includes experience developing change management plans, communication strategies, and training programs to support successful transitions.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

As an equal opportunity employer, it is the policy of HealthierHere to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment, and to assure that there is no discrimination against any person on the basis of his or her race, color, sex, religion, marital status, national origin, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, veteran status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability in accordance with state and federal laws. HealthierHere is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, multicultural workplace. HealthierHere values diversity and strives to have a diverse workforce and is committed to equal employment opportunity. HealthierHere actively encourages members of diverse communities to apply.

Schedule and Worksite

This position works full-time Monday – Friday during standard business hours. HealthierHere is currently performing all work remotely through with a hybrid approach planned for mid-2024. There may be situations where the employee is required to report to an off-site HealthierHere work location. Employees will be provided with a HealthierHere-issued laptop and must maintain a workspace with a secure internet connection where they can reliably and securely perform work and remain available and responsive during scheduled work hours.

Who We Are

HealthierHere is a regional collaborative committed to transformative change in the health and well-being of King County residents. We bring together community members and leaders from diverse sectors to address persistent health disparities, improve population health, prevent disease and address the social determinants of health. We strive for the “quadruple aim”—providing better care, lower costs, and a better experience for patients and providers.

HealthierHere is one of nine Accountable Communities of Health in Washington State responsible for addressing health equity and supporting whole person integrated care. This is one part of a much broader effort to achieve significant gains in health and well-being for our community.

As an organization, HealthierHere operates under a set of core values that include equity, community, partnership, innovation, and results. These values guide our work with each other and with our community partners. HealthierHere leads with equity. We work to intentionally eliminate disparities and address the current power dynamic and structural racism in our health care system that perpetuates inequities. We believe that every community member in King County should receive the type of care that they deserve - with respect and without stigma - to address their unique and individual needs.

As our name suggests, we are committed to health equity and believe that here, in King County, everyone’s health matters.

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