Employee Relations Partner

Employee Relations Partner

The Employee Relations Partner provides specialized expertise in managing complex employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant outcomes. This role partners closely with Strategic HRBPs, leadership, Labor Relations Partners, Legal, and Compliance to mitigate risk and support a positive workplace environment. This role also drives enterprise insights through trend analysis, identifying systemic risks and informing proactive strategies to strengthen culture, reduce liability, and improve employee experience.

Job Duties

• Lead complex workplace investigations end-to-end, including intake, investigation planning, witness interviews, evidence review, credibility assessments, and final determination with defensible documentation in accordance with Jefferson policy, tools and process.
• Ensures employee respect and care during investigation process for the accuser and the accused
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert on investigations and employee relations practices, ensuring consistency and standardization across business units and geographies.
• Provide strategic guidance and execution of progressive discipline, corrective action, and performance management, ensuring alignment with Just Culture principles and organizational standards.
• Manage EEOC charges, state agency complaints, and litigation support, including position statements, documentation, and coordination with legal counsel.
• Conduct adverse impact analyses for reductions in force (RIFs), restructures, and other employment actions to ensure equitable outcomes and minimize legal exposure.
• Lead threat assessment processes and workplace violence response, partnering with security, Legal, and leadership to mitigate risk and ensure safe outcomes.
• Interpret and apply HR policies, employment laws, and regulatory requirements, providing consistent, risk-informed recommendations to leadership and HRBPs.
• Proactively identify and escalate systemic employee relations risks, leveraging data, trends, and case analysis to recommend enterprise-wide interventions in partnership with HRBP's and leadership.
• Develop and deliver training and guidance for leaders on investigations, documentation, discipline, and compliance standards.
• Maintain comprehensive and audit-ready case documentation, reporting, and tracking, ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, and regulatory compliance.
• Provides support as part of HR team assignments in relation to specific projects and initiatives to support the organization.
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources or related field
• 5 years of relative HR experience
• Investigation Methodology & Credibility Assessment
• Employment Law & Compliance Expertise
• Business Writing & Documentation Excellence
• Objectivity & Sound Judgment Under Pressure
• Risk Assessment & Legal Exposure Analysis
• Root cause analysis skills

Additional Qualifications

Physical Demands Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Work Shift Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type Regular

Employee Entity Primary Location Address 1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.