Associate Director, Employee Relations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $90k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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Rocketship Public Schools

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2006

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Rocketship Public Schools is a national network of high-performing public elementary schools focused on serving underserved communities. With a commitment to eliminating the achievement gap, Rocketship schools offer a choice for parents seeking excellent education in regions such as California, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington D. C. These schools have been recognized among the Best Elementary Schools in the nation, emphasizing their success through superior test scores. Rocketship employs a transformative approach based on personalized learning, talent development, and parent empowerment, ensuring students progress 5-7 months more each school year. They offer tuition-free education and are dedicated to teacher growth and community impact.

📋 Description

• Lead neutral, timely, and comprehensive investigations into complex or high-risk matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, serious misconduct, and significant policy violations • Produce thorough, objective, and well-documented investigation reports, findings, and recommendations • Maintain complete and confidential investigative files meeting organizational, legal, and regulatory requirements • Coordinate with regional legal counsels on multi-state compliance risks • Coordinate organizational responses to EEOC and state or local agency complaints, inquiries, or claims • Monitor employment-law changes and recommend updates to policies, investigative practices, and leader guidance • Advise and coach school, regional, and network leaders through personnel processes, performance improvement initiatives, and documentation workflows • Audit at-will termination, suspension, and non-renewal actions for consistency and liability reduction • Train campus leaders on staff relations, conflict management, and healthy workplace cultures • Facilitate resolution of serious workplace conflicts • Mediate complex interpersonal disputes • Identify systemic concerns and recommend targeted interventions • Own annual mandatory training completion through Vector, including tracking, follow-up, escalation, and reporting • Audit personnel files, I-9 records, and other employment documentation • Oversee HR records governance, data integrity, confidentiality, access, and retention • Review HR systems and processes for compliance and coordinate improvements • Coordinate external audits and required reporting, including EEO-1 and OSHA-related requests • Coordinate HR and Talent responses to authorizer reporting and compliance requests

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of dedicated Employee Relations experience • At least 3+ years managing multi-state workplace investigations • Expertise in investigation planning, interviewing, credibility assessment, evidence analysis, findings development, and investigative report writing • Strong working knowledge of federal employment law • Experience interpreting and applying state-specific employment requirements • Prior experience within K-12 education, Charter Management Organizations (CMOs), or highly regulated multi-site environments is strongly preferred • Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related fields • Professional HR certifications such as SHRM-SCP or SPHR are highly valued • Ability to travel up to 25% to regional school campuses for complex on-site investigations or leadership workshops

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent health and wellness benefits • 403(b) retirement plan • Flexible spending account (FSA) • Generous paid time off • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities • Remote work arrangement