Senior Employee and Labor Relations Partner

About Tides 

Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization committed to advancing social justice.  We work across the social sector to shift power to communities of color and other groups historically denied power.  

Centering equity and justice in everything we do, we collaborate in deep partnership with movement leaders, nonprofits, donors, foundations, and corporations to amplify the impact of their work by providing services like fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, grant making, and a variety of innovative solutions. Learn more at tides.org. 

The Role 

The Senior Employee and Labor Relations Partner objectively assesses, guides, and solves all person-related situations and effectively communicates with all levels of employees exercising high emotional intelligence and JEDI centered practices. In addition, this position serves as the escalation point for all HR related issues and will work with the stakeholders to expeditiously resolve the issues. This position will provide advice and counsel to people leaders, in various arenas, including employee performance issues, employee misconduct, performance management, and the issuance of corrective action utilizing coaching techniques. This position will guide, train, coach and support a variety of diverse customers including executive, directors, and managers, while modeling Tides’ JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) beliefs and commitment to an employee centered, and trauma informed workplace environment.   

The Senior Employee and Labor Relations Partner reports to the Senior Director, Talent Management and engages collaboratively across the team specialty areas including Talent Acquisition, Compensation, Employee Experience, Organizational Development, and Internal Communications. This position will develop and maintain relationships with both management, employees, and the union representatives to foster harmonious Labor and Employee Relations.   

What you will Do 

• Delivers strategic, high-quality, and hands-on HR advisory services to Tides Network, engaging stakeholders at all levels of the organization with strong emotional intelligence.   
• Serves as a trusted coach and thought partner to leaders and employees leveraging people centered and trauma informed practices, enabling strengths-based outcomes.  
• Effectively addresses questions resolves employee issues using trauma informed principles, applicable policies, HR best practices, and conflict resolution strategies.  
• Interprets, develops, and implements HR policies and procedures in collaboration with the Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance (LRC) team.  
• Conducts investigations in alignment with Tides investigation protocols; interviews relevant parties and generates investigation reports with findings and conclusions.  
• Advises on performance management in partnership with Organizational Development.  
• Ensures compliance with organizational policies, as well as federal, state, and local regulations.   
• Conducts exit and stay interviews and aggregates data quarterly. Facilitates offboarding activity.   
• Conduct a variety of investigations on confidential and sensitive HR matters; review complaints and determine appropriate investigative approaches and methodologies; perform fact-finding activities, develop interview questions; consult with investigation assessment team in alignment with Tides’ investigation protocols.  
• Provide guidance to people leaders in the administration of discipline and corrective action in alignment with the Collective Bargaining Agreement.   
•  Provide training and coaching to Tides’ management regarding assessing, coaching, counseling, and developing employees.   
• Coach and counsel managers, supervisors, and employees on resolving workplace issues; provide information about career development opportunities; monitor progress on performance improvement plans.   
• Participate in grievance process outlined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). Engages with stakeholders proactively to mitigate formal grievances.  
• Advise and guide management and employees on the interpretation and administration of the collective bargaining agreement.  
• Provide input into labor/management issues for collective bargaining purposes; participate in negotiations; consult with Senior Director, Talent and internal Employment and Labor Counsel on interpretation and intent of collective bargaining contract language.  
• Provides HR representation on cross-departmental initiatives such as assessments, pilots, and other cross-functional team projects to advance departmental and organizational goals.  
• Develops new tools and resources for the HR team as well as partners.  
• Supports employment visa processing in partnership with internal employment and labor counsel and external immigration attorney.  
• Contributes content to the internal Digest/newsletter based on subject matter expertise and issue areas. 

What you will Bring 

Minimum:  

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Organizational Development, I/O Psychology or related work experience.  
• 7+ years of relevant experience, facilitating all facets of Human Resources in a union environment.  
• Strong working knowledge of people centered best practices as well as federal, state, and local laws.  
• Demonstrated track record of effectively advising and coaching people leaders and employees on a wide range of complex HR matters exhibiting strong emotional intelligence and trauma informed practices.  
• The ideal candidate will be comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve the organization’s strategic goals and has the ability to adapt and thrive in a dynamic and fluid workplace environment.  
• Ability to balance competing demands and address the conflicting needs in alignment with Tides JEDI beliefs and values.   
• Strong project management and organizational skills to collaborate with others, provide high-quality service to partners, and ensure outcomes on aligned goals.  
• Ability to track and aggregate data to produce regular reporting.  
• Ability to hold self and others accountable for high-quality, timely, and effective results.  
• Ability to influence decision making through strong relationships, expertise and data.  
• Ability to cooperate and work collaboratively toward solutions that generally benefit all parties.  
• Demonstrated ability to hold information confidential with objective judgment.  
• Acts with integrity, empathy, curiosity, and transparency.  
• Strong analytical, investigatory and research skills.  
• Exemplifies Tides JEDI beliefs and organizational values.  

Preferred:  

• PHR/SPHR certification  
• Just Culture certification   
• Mental Health First Aid at Work certification   
• Trauma informed training   

Compensation 

Tides is committed to providing a competitive compensation package. We value pay equity and account for factors such as your location within the U.S., your skills and your relevant experience, and we will not ask for your salary history. Your starting salary will fall into one of three ranges, depending on your location: 

• National market: $92,500 - $138,700 (Most U.S. states) 
• Moderate market: $100,900 - $151,300 (Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. metro areas) 
• High market: $111,000 - $166,600 (New York City & San Francisco metro areas) 

Please note the above geographic areas are examples and not a complete list. Our talent acquisition team will review your application and confirm your placement within this structure at the beginning of the interview process. 

Application Instructions 

Please submit your resume and a thoughtful cover letter. Your cover letter should express why you’re a great candidate for this role, and your motivation for joining our team at Tides. 

Application Deadline: March 13th at 5pm Pacific Standard Time 

Life at Tides 

Working at Tides connects you with world-class teammates, enduring relationships, and an inspired sense of purpose - while our employee benefits support our team’s talent and well-being. Our hybrid work model supports staff who are based all across the United States, in addition to maintaining our offices in New York & San Francisco. 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

We look forward to reviewing applications from all qualified jobseekers. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities. No applicant will be discriminated against because of their race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Applicants with Disabilities 

Reasonable accommodations will be made so that all who are interested may participate in our interview process. If you are in need of an accommodation, please advise in writing at the time you apply.