Senior Director, Global Mobility
- Employer
- Northeastern University
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not specified
- Date posted
- Nov 24, 2021
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Business & Administrative Affairs, Human Resources Administration
- Employment Level
- Administrative
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Senior Director, Global Mobility & HR Integration
About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.
Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.
Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.
About the Opportunity:
Reporting to the Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, the Senior Director for Global Mobility & HR Integration will design and lead all facets of global mobility at Northeastern University for its employees and candidates. Creative programs and comprehensive communications that enable the strategy are required; success will also be defined through the effective establishment of collaborative partnerships with all key stakeholders locally and globally. The Senior Director will additionally serve as the focal point and leadership integrator of all HR merger and acquisition activities necessary to seamlessly add new campus locations or partners in a manner that aligns with the goals, values, and mission of the university.
Responsibilities:
HR Global Mobility Accountabilities:
- Lead the design of the global strategy for employment,
relocation, tax and immigration; develop creative solutions to meet
immediate and long-term business objectives.
- Lead the tactical transition of human resources services from
local and domestic to global operations; this includes creating
policies, procedures and guidelines for faculty and staff mobility
within the global university system as well as international hiring
and appointments, payment and budget considerations, relocation
costs and services, global mobility vendor management and HR
support.
- Build and lead/organize a global team of direct and indirect
resources to implement and administer highly impactful immigration
and relocation programs; this may include third-party vendor
selection and management for PEO/EOR or other arrangements.
- Develop the global mobility policy and program guidelines
ensuring industry competitiveness and compliance with legal, tax
and local employment regulations; serve as the integrator with
university experts in tax, risk services and compliance, legal
services, etc.
- Continually assess all global mobility vendors, processes, and
policies to ensure an optimal experience for employees, candidates,
and managers.
- Provide strategic global mobility-related expertise and
guidance to the HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition
Specialists, local HR contacts, managers, and others.
- Broker the subject matter expertise and services of University
HR COE's to build or modify workforce strategies, programs or
policies.
HR Merger & Acquisition Accountabilities:
- Serves as the subject matter expert and integrator who leads HR
merger and acquisition activities necessary to seamlessly add new
campus locations or partners in a manner that aligns with the
goals, values, and mission of the university.
- Recommends and effectively establishes cross-functional teams
who are appropriately positioned to execute on the HR activities
necessary to integrate new campus locations or partners into the
university system; works with university PMO office on merger
project plans and effectively leads the work assigned to team
members.
- Curates a comprehensive system of external experts (e.g.:
employment counsel, benefits counsel, M&A counsel, PEO/EOR
vendors, etc.) who can be uniquely leveraged for specific needs and
for guidance on unique or complex scenarios.
- Partners extensively with leaders at Northeastern and the new
campus or partner location; extensively collaboration is needed to
ensure alignment of goals and successful outcomes.
HR Network Integration Accountabilities:
- Works collaboratively with the VP & CHRO and HR Leadership
team to integrate strategies to university locations outside of
greater Boston; goal is to meet the unique needs of node locations
while establishing commonality and consistency of HR services and
employee experience.
- Responds effectively to shifting HR priorities by taking on
assigned projects in all areas of HR including employee relations,
total rewards, communications, talent acquisition, learning and
development and HR Information Technology on an as needed basis,
and in partnership with HR functional leadership to meet
organizational goals.
- Actively cultivates cooperative and productive relationships
with key constituents across the University.
Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have HR leadership experience across the US, Canada, as well as Global HR Management exposure in rapidly changing, highly matrixed organizations. The ideal candidate will have led both HR centers of excellence, as well as HR Business Partners teams, and demonstrated success in implementing HR initiatives across an organization. The successful candidate will bring many of the following skills and qualities:
- Progressive HR leadership experience in large and complex,
rapidly changing, highly matrixed organizations with a focus on
growth and continuous innovation.
- Knowledge on what is required to execute human resource
operations on a global level, with relevant experience in the
international domain.
- Experience with the following areas: HR systems, compensation,
benefits, talent management/acquisition and employee/ labor
relations.
- Demonstrated expertise in HR analytics for decision making
purposes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as
strong presentation and influencing skills.
- Ability to work effectively and productively in a collaborative
team capacity with creative approaches to organizational
development opportunities.
- Ability to create and implement effective communications
strategies to broadly disseminate information regarding human
resources strategies, objectives, priorities and
accountabilities.
Key Required Attributes:
- Natural abilities to operate collaboratively, build strong
relationships and drive change through consensus building.
- Strong management skills with experience working with
decentralized and highly independent business
units/divisions.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the laws, regulations, and executive
orders relating to human resource and affirmative action/equal
employment opportunity issues and concerns.
- Excellent negotiation skills to successfully manage key
stakeholder relationships including HR functional leadership,
University Senior Leadership and employees.
- Track record of effective staff development through coaching
methods that ensure staff optimize capabilities by providing
feedback, advice and suggestions to ensure success.
- Demonstrated experience managing an HR function across most, if
not all US states.
- The successful candidate requires a Bachelor's degree in human
resources, business, or public administration or a related field,
with a Master's degree and HR certification strongly
preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
Salary Grade:
15
Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.
Our locations—in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.
Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.
About the Opportunity:
Reporting to the Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, the Senior Director for Global Mobility & HR Integration will design and lead all facets of global mobility at Northeastern University for its employees and candidates. Creative programs and comprehensive communications that enable the strategy are required; success will also be defined through the effective establishment of collaborative partnerships with all key stakeholders locally and globally. The Senior Director will additionally serve as the focal point and leadership integrator of all HR merger and acquisition activities necessary to seamlessly add new campus locations or partners in a manner that aligns with the goals, values, and mission of the university.
Responsibilities:
HR Global Mobility Accountabilities:
- Lead the design of the global strategy for employment,
relocation, tax and immigration; develop creative solutions to meet
immediate and long-term business objectives.
- Lead the tactical transition of human resources services from
local and domestic to global operations; this includes creating
policies, procedures and guidelines for faculty and staff mobility
within the global university system as well as international hiring
and appointments, payment and budget considerations, relocation
costs and services, global mobility vendor management and HR
support.
- Build and lead/organize a global team of direct and indirect
resources to implement and administer highly impactful immigration
and relocation programs; this may include third-party vendor
selection and management for PEO/EOR or other arrangements.
- Develop the global mobility policy and program guidelines
ensuring industry competitiveness and compliance with legal, tax
and local employment regulations; serve as the integrator with
university experts in tax, risk services and compliance, legal
services, etc.
- Continually assess all global mobility vendors, processes, and
policies to ensure an optimal experience for employees, candidates,
and managers.
- Provide strategic global mobility-related expertise and
guidance to the HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition
Specialists, local HR contacts, managers, and others.
- Broker the subject matter expertise and services of University
HR COE's to build or modify workforce strategies, programs or
policies.
HR Merger & Acquisition Accountabilities:
- Serves as the subject matter expert and integrator who leads HR
merger and acquisition activities necessary to seamlessly add new
campus locations or partners in a manner that aligns with the
goals, values, and mission of the university.
- Recommends and effectively establishes cross-functional teams
who are appropriately positioned to execute on the HR activities
necessary to integrate new campus locations or partners into the
university system; works with university PMO office on merger
project plans and effectively leads the work assigned to team
members.
- Curates a comprehensive system of external experts (e.g.:
employment counsel, benefits counsel, M&A counsel, PEO/EOR
vendors, etc.) who can be uniquely leveraged for specific needs and
for guidance on unique or complex scenarios.
- Partners extensively with leaders at Northeastern and the new
campus or partner location; extensively collaboration is needed to
ensure alignment of goals and successful outcomes.
HR Network Integration Accountabilities:
- Works collaboratively with the VP & CHRO and HR Leadership
team to integrate strategies to university locations outside of
greater Boston; goal is to meet the unique needs of node locations
while establishing commonality and consistency of HR services and
employee experience.
- Responds effectively to shifting HR priorities by taking on
assigned projects in all areas of HR including employee relations,
total rewards, communications, talent acquisition, learning and
development and HR Information Technology on an as needed basis,
and in partnership with HR functional leadership to meet
organizational goals.
- Actively cultivates cooperative and productive relationships
with key constituents across the University.
Qualifications:
The successful candidate will have HR leadership experience across the US, Canada, as well as Global HR Management exposure in rapidly changing, highly matrixed organizations. The ideal candidate will have led both HR centers of excellence, as well as HR Business Partners teams, and demonstrated success in implementing HR initiatives across an organization. The successful candidate will bring many of the following skills and qualities:
- Progressive HR leadership experience in large and complex,
rapidly changing, highly matrixed organizations with a focus on
growth and continuous innovation.
- Knowledge on what is required to execute human resource
operations on a global level, with relevant experience in the
international domain.
- Experience with the following areas: HR systems, compensation,
benefits, talent management/acquisition and employee/ labor
relations.
- Demonstrated expertise in HR analytics for decision making
purposes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as
strong presentation and influencing skills.
- Ability to work effectively and productively in a collaborative
team capacity with creative approaches to organizational
development opportunities.
- Ability to create and implement effective communications
strategies to broadly disseminate information regarding human
resources strategies, objectives, priorities and
accountabilities.
Key Required Attributes:
- Natural abilities to operate collaboratively, build strong
relationships and drive change through consensus building.
- Strong management skills with experience working with
decentralized and highly independent business
units/divisions.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the laws, regulations, and executive
orders relating to human resource and affirmative action/equal
employment opportunity issues and concerns.
- Excellent negotiation skills to successfully manage key
stakeholder relationships including HR functional leadership,
University Senior Leadership and employees.
- Track record of effective staff development through coaching
methods that ensure staff optimize capabilities by providing
feedback, advice and suggestions to ensure success.
- Demonstrated experience managing an HR function across most, if
not all US states.
- The successful candidate requires a Bachelor's degree in human
resources, business, or public administration or a related field,
with a Master's degree and HR certification strongly
preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
Salary Grade:
15
Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.
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