Employee Relations Partner

Position Pay Starts at $90,000 and can go up DOE

Position Summary:

The Employee Relations Partner serves as a strategic advisor to leaders across New Narrative, partnering with managers and executives to foster a high-performing, legally compliant, and trauma-informed workplace. This role leadscomplexemployee relations matters, workplace investigations, organizational consultation, performance management, accommodations, employment law compliance, and organizational change initiatives while balancing employee experience with organizational risk. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Employee Relations & Workplace Investigations: Lead complex investigations; advise leaders on corrective action, documentation, conflict resolution, and separations. 

• Strategic Leadership Consultation: Coach leaders on performance, organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, change management, and difficult conversations. 

• Performance Management & Organizational Effectiveness: Support performance improvement, accountability, talent decisions, and organizational restructuring. 

• Leave, Accommodations & Employment Compliance: Manage ADA interactive process, FMLA, Paid Leave Oregon, workers' compensation coordination, and return-to-work planning. 

• Organizational Risk & Compliance: Interpret employment law, develop policy, coordinate responses to BOLI/EEOC matters, support litigation, and assess organizational risk. 

• Workforce Analytics & Continuous Improvement: Analyze trends in employee relations, investigations, turnover, and compliance to recommend improvements. 

• Training & Leadership Development: Develop and facilitate leadership training on employee relations, investigations, documentation, bias awareness, respectful workplaces, and legal compliance. 

Core Competencies:

• Consultative Partnership 

• Employee Relations Expertise 

• Workplace Investigations 

• Employment Law (Federal & Oregon) 

• Executive Presence 

• Conflict Resolution 

• Critical Thinking 

• Sound Judgment 

• Emotional Intelligence 

• Organizational Consultation 

• Change Management 

• Data-Driven Decision Making 

• Confidentiality & Professional Ethics 

• Communication 

• Project Management 

• Trauma-Informed Practice 

• Cultural Humility 

Minimum Qualifications 

• SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certification(PHR/SPHR may be accepted as an equivalent, if approved). 

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Industrial Psychology, Social Work, or related field ; Master's degree preferred. 

• Minimum six (6) years of progressive Human Resources experience with significant responsibility for employee relations, workplace investigations, performance management, and employment law. 

• Demonstrated experience conducting complex workplace investigations and advising leaders on high-risk employee matters. 

• Experience interpreting and applying federal and Oregon employment laws. 

• Experience in behavioral health, healthcare, nonprofit, or similarly regulated environments strongly preferred. 

Additional Responsibilities 

• Support reductions in force and reorganizations. 

• Coordinate executive-level employee relations consultations. 

• Partner withLegal onemployment claims and litigation support. 

• Lead culture restoration efforts following significant workplace issues. 

• Develop and maintain HR policies and best practices. 

• Perform other related duties as assigned.