Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Title: Senior Human Resources Business Partner

State Role Title: Human Resource Analyst II

Hiring Range: Commensurate up to $105,000

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Department of Energy

Location: Administration/Energy

Agency Website: www.energy.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

Virginia Energy is seeking a Senior Human Resources Business Partner to serve as a strategic and tactical advisor to senior leadership and staff. This role plays a key part in fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing work environment that supports our mission.

The ideal candidate will bring expertise in performance management, employee relations, compensation, staffing trends, and HR best practices. A strong understanding of HR policies, programs, procedures, and applicable regulations is essential, along with excellent initiative, follow-through, feedback, and decision-making skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the lead expert, advising leaders, facilitating difficult conversations, conducting investigations, preparing summaries and recommendations, managing terminations, and developing performance improvement plans. 
• Lead and support projects in areas such as performance management, workforce planning, compensation planning, and career development.
• Promote a positive, engaging, and inclusive workplace through transparent communication and a strong sense of belonging.
• Provide guidance to leadership and staff on HR policies and best practices.
• Use the Cardinal System to process HR transactions, run queries, and generate reports to support HR initiatives and meet DHRM requirements.Virginia Energy’s mission is to lead the Commonwealth toward a safe, reliable, and responsible energy future with a greater emphasis on renewable energy programs and economic development. The agency also implements Virginia’s Energy Plan to ensure the Commonwealth has abundant, reliable, affordable, and clean energy.Come be a part of an agency that makes a difference. We have offices in Big Stone Gap, Charlottesville, and Richmond, Virginia.

Minimum Qualifications

• • Comprehensive experience in multiple aspects of HR to include performance management, employee relations, pay and staffing trends and best practices
• • Experience with classification and compensation especially in state or local government.
• • Experience with employee relations from complaint to resolution
• • Knowledge of human resources trends and best practices
• • High level knowledge of benefits to support employees with simple benefits questions.
• • Extensive knowledge of federal and state employment laws and their practical application in a public work environment
• • Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Office software and database management systems
• • Strong written and verbal communication skills
• • Strong planning and organization skills
• • Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• • Interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations
• •Experience gathering and summarizing data for reports, finding solutions to various administrative problems, and prioritizing work
• • Ability to work independently to meet deadlines
• • Excellent customer service and relationship building skills
• • High degree of professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality
• • Ability to work on a team that delivers a high-availability level of service
• • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• • Experience working with state software systems such as Cardinal/PeopleSoft, PageUp, VRS Navigator, etc.

Additional Considerations

• HR related certification preferred (SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR)

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Applications and résumés for this position are accepted electronically through the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Electronic Recruitment System only. Interview decisions will be based solely on the information provided in your electronic application and/or résumé. Please ensure you detail all relevant work experience clearly and specifically; we will not make assumptions about your qualifications. You will receive confirmation of receipt once your application and/or résumé has been successfully submitted. To check the status of your application, refer to “Your Application” in your account.

All applicants for employment must consent to a comprehensive background check. Selected candidates must successfully pass a drug test, reference, driving, and criminal background check.

Selected candidate(s) will need to complete the I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Form.

Virginia Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer by both policy and practice, therefore prohibits discrimination on basis of sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, political affiliation or disability in the recruitment, selection and hiring of our workforce.

As a certified V3 organization, Virginia Energy honors the Commonwealth’s veterans hiring preference. AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and other National Service Alumni are also encouraged to apply.

Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or any part of the remaining hiring process should contact the hiring agency directly. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Contact Information

• Name: Pamela Koger McElwain
• Phone: 804-910-1525
• Email: Pamela.KogerMcElwain@energy.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.