Human Resources Consultant Services

The Vendor is required to provide highly skilled and fully knowledgeable in the human resource field and can take a proactive approach in completing the work below and advising on all aspects of its current practices, while making recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Recruitment services to various positions to be filled as needed.
• Develop and implement recruitment and advertisement strategy, develop job flyer.
• Advertise in appropriate locations, including social media and specialized job boards.
- Conduct initial screening and ranking of candidates.
- Hiring, on-boarding, promotion, demotion, performance improvement, and separation of employees and appropriate documentation of the same.
- Review, recommend changes to, and potentially draft an employee handbook and policies.
• Include sections on employee rights, responsibilities, workplace conduct, and grievance procedures.
- Review and update of employee labor classifications, as necessary
- Review and update existing job descriptions to ensure an appropriate job description exists for each job position and recommend revisions for each job description as needed for compliance with the act as well as other applicable state laws and department regulations
• Develop new job descriptions as necessary for evolving roles.
- Create, review, and recommend revision of policies to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local standards and regulations.
• Create and document sops for key HR functions, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and employee separation.
• Ensure sops are accessible and user-friendly for all staff.
- Create, manage and maintain employee records in accordance with applicable laws and department regulations.
- Regular communication to management of changes affecting employment laws or regulations.
- Manage the healthcare and benefits renewal
- Assist with the administration of leave policies and with planning for and documentation of communications with employees relating to leave.
- Review of probationary and annual performance review process, including creating new or improved forms as necessary, and recommendations for improvement and assist with documentation of performance review for employees whose performance is in need of improvement.
• Recommend strategies and actions to address employee performance deficiencies and other issues affecting the work environment.
• Recommend management options for corrective actions and assist with planning for and documentation of communications with employees about performance issues and negative impacts on the work environment.
- Create, update and maintain records of all employment status changes as to each employee, such as new hire, leaves, demotions, promotions, terminations, and more.
- Assistance with development of staff training programs related to employee conduct and soft skills, as well as monitoring of completed training programs and coaching for supervisors.
- Review employee and manager complaints and recommend an appropriate response or process to respond to said complaint; conduct investigations and prepare investigative reports necessary to inform management.
- Responses to employee and manager complaints.
- Review of counseling of other disciplinary actions, memos etc.
- Provide expertise in managing relationships with union representatives.
• Assist in contract negotiations, grievances, and conflict resolution.
- Compensation and benefit package reviews in relation to industry standards.
- Provide guidance on overtime policies and practices, including tracking, reporting, and compliance with labor laws.
- Develop training materials for managers on overtime management.
- Assistance with other tasks as deemed necessary to improve employee performance, supervision, or the work environment for employees.
- Contract Period/Term: 5 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: March 21, 2025