Advisor, Employee Relations Investigator (P3)

Staff whose work requires or potentially could require any in-person interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners, or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state, and local laws with regard to accommodations related to this policy.

Summary

Save the Children US is seeking an Employee Relations Investigator for the People & Culture team. You will report to the Sr. Advisor of Employee Relations & Investigations and will work directly with the People & Culture and Legal teams to investigate allegations of violations of the Agency’s policies, workplace disputes, and EEO issues. You will investigate agency complaints using objectivity with the ability to engage employees with empathy while establishing clear boundaries, as well as analytical rigor in applying procedures and policies to the facts of each allegation through thoroughly written investigation reports. You will also work with the HR data analyst to interpret data and metrics to proactively identify trends and issues.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Manage moderately complex internal investigations end-to-end which includes executing action plans, scheduling and participating in interviews and engaging in fact-finding to deliver an accurate investigation report
• Work closely with HR Business Partners to provide guidance on concerns of misconduct
• Present at New Employee Orientation to orient new staff on Workplace Culture Policies and reporting pathways
• Respond to assigned internal complaints/reports presented through various avenues, including Ethics Hotline, email, direct calls in a timely manner
• Assist the Sr. Employee Relations Advisor with complex and high-risk internal investigations by taking detailed notes and preparing written reports for decision-makers
• Track and follow up on cases or outstanding activities

• Monitor and track the implementation of discipline stemming from any and all substantiated investigations in a case management system
• Complete and maintain appropriate case file documentation in case management systems to ensure a full picture of employee relations activity, informal and formal processes, advice given, outcomes issued, inquiries, etc.
• Act as a neutral, unbiased party and ensures that the process yields a balanced perspective and outcome
• Listen, identify, and distill essential information needed to assess and resolve reported concerns
• Provide reports, data analysis and trend analysis to Sr. People & Culture team and business leaders

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated working knowledge of applicable employment laws, policies and procedures
• Proven ability to gather, document in a timely manner, analyze, and synthesize key insights gleaned from Investigation data and analytics, presenting recommendations logically and persuasively
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Proven successful experience investigating EEO, ADA and employment related complaints, as well as interpreting policies and regulations
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Excellent writing skills and proficiency in writing reports
• Proven successful interpersonal communication skills with individuals and teams at all levels, demonstrating flexibility and consideration across various styles of communication, fostering effective working relationships, maintaining confidences, and exercising sound judgment and discretion especially in dealing with sensitive, high risk, and complex legal and HR issues and situations
• Proven ability and commitment to exercise tact and diplomacy in dealing with sensitive, complex and confidential issues

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary
• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.