Employee Relations Partner

About the position

The Iowa DOT is seeking an Employee Relations Partner to join our dynamic Human Resources team! Are you looking for a career where you can use both your interpersonal and investigative abilities to uncover the truth? Are you objective and great at keeping a Customer Focused mindset? If so, the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) is looking for you to join our dedicated Employee Relations team and make a difference with a mission driven organization! As an Employee Relations Partner, you will contribute your experience and knowledge toward fulfilling our Mission - Making Lives Better Through Transportation. Through your behaviors and actions, you will demonstrate the IDOT's Core Values: Safety First, People Matter, Customer Focused, Servant Leadership, and Integrity Without Exception alongside your IDOT teammates. Join us as we work to make a difference in our employees' lives! This position will work fulltime at our Ames, IA location.

Responsibilities

• Coach leaders as they deal with both small and large employee issues.
• Provide support, consultation, and resolution guidance for employees and leaders in the department.
• Analyze workplace environment complaints, recommend appropriate resolutions, and conduct investigations.
• Interpret policies, code, and laws and advise others on how to apply them.
• Support the development of policies for employees.
• Prepare presentations to provide training on the policies.
• Teach leaders in both one-on-one and classroom settings about various topics related to employee relations.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a Bachelor's degree.
• A combination of a total of four years of education and full-time experience in technical or professional human resources work, where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work equals one year of full-time experience.
• Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes three years of full-time work performing technical human resources work.

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent communication skills.
• Commitment to producing high-quality work.
• Passion for providing exceptional customer service.
• Ability to problem solve through a variety of topics and situations.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits package including health, dental, flexible spending, and life insurance.
• Insurance benefits start first of the month following 30 days of employment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Paid time off effective immediately - biweekly vacation, separate sick leave, accruals rollover on a yearly basis, and 9 paid holidays per year.
• Iowa Public Employee Retirement System (IPERS) Retirement Package with employer match.
• Optional 401A plan with employer contributions.
• Employee Discount Programs from a variety of vendors (vision, cellular, fitness, recreation, season passes, travel, counseling; legal, financial).