Field Senior Human Resources Business Partner

About KinderCare Education® 

KinderCare Education operates more than 1,380 early learning centers, and more than 560 Champions sites, supported by a corporate team of nearly 600 headquarters employees in Portland, Oregon. In 2019, KinderCare Education earned their third Gallup Great Workplace Award – one of only 39 companies worldwide to win this award.  

• In neighborhoods with our KinderCare® Learning Centers that offer early childhood education and child care for children six weeks to 12 years old 
• At work through KinderCare Education at Work™, family benefits for employers including on-site and near-site early learning centers and back-up care for last-minute child care 
• In local schools with our Champions® before and after-school programs. 

What you bring:

As the Field Senior HR Business Partner, you will serve as a proactive thought partner, coach, and driver of creative solutions that impacts experience, talent, and culture. You bring a light-hearted sense of humor that helps sustain and build upon the amazing culture we’ve built. You can read a room – and in partnership with leaders, drive consensus and positive outcomes through strong listening and understanding of all sides. As a curious and courageous change agent and culture keeper, you will support in driving employee engagement and improving organizational effectiveness in alignment with KinderCare’s strategic priorities.

Your success will be measured by the relationships you build, the positive and forward-thinking outcomes of your work, improved team and overall engagement, employee retention, successful building and implementation of strategic HR initiatives, and showing up as a positive champion for KinderCare’s past, present, and future. This role directly supports connecting the dots of what is happening across KinderCare and how it can strategically and tactically relate to the rest of organization and how that translates to support of our field and corporate based employees in building Confidence for Life in the children we care for every day.

What you’d focus on:

• Primary HR partner for field leadership within assigned functions supporting org design, culture, leadership development, employee relations, staffing, talent planning/succession, and daily “HR quarterbacking”
• Lead seasonal programs for your functions like talent calibration, performance calibration, succession planning, engagement review and action planning, etc.
• Provide proactive thought partnership, leadership, and expertise to enable leaders to drive success for their teams
• Develop and execute on key initiatives and programs specific to overall corporate functions and culture
• Coordinate with corporate partners to ensure delivery of additional support in Organization Development, Talent Management and Compensation to diagnose, develop and deliver timely, comprehensive and relevant solutions
• Build and influence leadership capability across all levels of your teams
• Consult with leaders on employee issues and lead investigations as necessary
• Ensure compliance with all pertinent HR-related laws and regulations
• Support administration of requisition requests for recruitment, onboarding new hires, coordination of final pay, and supporting the leaves process.
• Drive process improvement pertaining to administrative solutions across the corporate office

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a strategic HR Business Partner with an expertise in organizational behavior, change management, business planning, and communication
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience, advanced degree preferred
• Proven agility when working in fast-paced environments and with ambiguity
• Successful experience leading/influencing organizational change
• A strong business acumen with extensive knowledge of the business/market trends, competition, company policies/procedures and the ability to be a culture keeper
• Proven strategic agility and thinking, knowing how the organization can perform and win, can initiate and operationalize competitive HR strategies and plans linked to the business strategy
• Ability to build partnerships with leaders at all levels and excellent customer focus
• Strong negotiation, conflict resolution, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter, follow-through, and plan ahead
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Our highest priority has always been to keep our employees, children, families, and communities as safe and healthy as possible. Starting October 18, 2021, we began requiring COVID vaccinations or weekly COVID testing for all unvaccinated employees who are required to be in a KinderCare Education community space or workspace to perform their work (center, National Support Center, and offsite meeting environments). We are also subject to state law, local ordinances, and Health Department requirements for employees working in child care and school facilities.

KinderCare Education employs more than 32,000 team members across 1,700 locations nationwide. Our devoted family of education providers leads the nation in accreditation and includes KinderCare® Learning Centers, KinderCare Education at Work®, Champions® Before- and After-School Programs, Cambridge Schools™, Knowledge Beginnings® and The Grove School®.

KinderCare Education is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal law.

Primary Location : Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Job : Field Leadership