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Position Number: 1953430
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Human Resources

Vice President & CHRO

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locationsin Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahantare nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of on-campus and online formatslead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
Northeastern University has retained the national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to assist in this search. All inquiries, nominations, referrals, and applications should be sent in confidence to:

Rebecca Kennedy, Partner

Emily McCarthy, Senior Associate

Isaacson, Miller

www.imsearch.com/7560

Responsibilities:
Northeastern University seeks a collaborative leader with a distinguished record of outstanding professional service and accomplishment. The VP/CHRO is responsible for the strategy, processes, policies and services pertaining to human resources in support of the University's purpose and mission.

Reporting to the Vice President of Administration & Financial Planning, the VP/CHRO will lead Northeastern's human capital agenda; including talent acquisition, leadership and organizational development, compensation, benefits and employee relations and retention. The VP/CHRO will have system-wide responsibilities (encompassing Northeastern's Boston campus as well as the University's broader Global University System) and will work closely with the President and Northeastern's Senior Leadership Team. The VP/CHRO oversees 9 direct reports and leads a team of approximately 60 individuals and will provide supervision and mentorship designed to develop the team to encourage its operation at the highest levels of performance, efficiency and integrity.

The VP/CHRO's foremost goal is to reshape the function to deliver high quality programs and processes to meet the HR needs of the University's faculty and staff while enhancing Northeastern's reputation as a top employer of choice by attracting and retaining the highest quality talent. The successful candidate will ensure transparency, efficiency, impact and consistency in HR functions. The VP/CHRO will evaluate HR services for continuous improvement and advise senior management on recommended changes. The VP/CHRO is responsible for ensuring that all programs and policies reflect sound business practices, and are in compliance with all laws and regulations in the cities, states and countries in which we employ faculty and staff.

For more information about Northeastern's Human Resources Management office, please visit: https://www.northeastern.edu/hrm/about/index.html.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have high-level human resources leadership experience, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead and implement change in a consensus-driven and proactive manner. The candidate must possess significant experience as a senior executive in a business, government or higher education organization of relevant size and complexity, with a deep and broad background in human resources, and a command of innovative practices in the field. The successful candidate will bring many of the following skills and qualities:

Desired Experience, Skills and Abilities:

History of designing and leading transformative change in complex, fast-paced and growing organizations. Northeastern is committed to redefining expectations about the delivery of high-quality educational experiences; the university is equally determined to devise and create an enriched workplace experience that is competitive across industries in its support of technological expertise, mobility, diversity and inclusion, and continuous learning and development for all its employees.

Informed perspective on what is required in order to execute human resource operations on a global level, with relevant experience in the international domain.

Established practice leading and partnering with key constituents to implement a new ERP system.

Familiarity with the following areas: HR systems, compensation, benefits, talent management/acquisition and employee/ labor relations. While the selected candidate is not expected to be an expert in all areas, the right individual will have sufficient knowledge to understand each functional area in enough depth to leverage the appropriate resources to drive desired outcomes.

Progressively responsible track record of demonstrated successes supporting a diverse workforce in planning, organizational effectiveness, problem solving, hiring, retention, facilitation, and decision-making skills and competencies.

Demonstrated expertise with a record of achievement in evaluating proactive and competitive human resources practices and presenting recommended courses of action for development to senior leadership.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as strong presentation and influencing skills.

Ability to work effectively and productively in a collaborative team capacity with creative approaches to organizational development opportunities.

Ability to create and implement effective communications strategies to broadly disseminate information regarding human resources strategies, objectives, priorities and accountabilities.

Key Required Attributes:

A proven track record of fostering change management, process improvement and development and implementation of effective and efficient business processes.

Strong management skills with experience working with decentralized and highly autonomous operating units. Demonstrated knowledge of the laws, regulations, and executive orders relating to human resource and affirmative action/equal employment opportunity issues and concerns.

Demonstrated expertise in budget management and people leadership. History of building teams.

Participative management style - advocates team collaboration with strong assertive/persuasive skills. Ability to collaborate with multiple and diverse constituencies with a strong customer service commitment.

Demonstrated strong negotiation skills to successfully manage leadership and employee expectations, with a wide variety of workforce management initiatives within similarly complex settings.

Previous success providing effective coaching to direct reports to optimize their capabilities by providing feedback, advice and suggestions to ensure success.
Ability to provide managerial support as needed; an approachable and compassionate listener.

Unquestionable ethics in establishing a workplace environment that promotes the dignity of people and the diversity of talent, while enabling others to serve society.

The successful candidate should ideally hold a bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or public administration or a related field, with a master's degree preferred.

Salary Grade:
99

Additional Information:
Northeastern University has retained the national executive search firm Isaacson, Miller to assist in this search. All inquiries, nominations, referrals, and applications should be sent in confidence to:

Rebecca Kennedy, Partner

Emily McCarthy, Senior Associate

Isaacson, Miller

www.imsearch.com/7560

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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