Espire Dental is an elite organization delivering five–star patient and team member experiences – we do not accept average, we expect better, which over time becomes the best. Our Culture Playbook is the backbone of excellence.

We strive to be the best version of ourselves every day by living the Espire Essentials that create our culture.

We Choose it. We Live it. We Demand it of ourselves and others.

The purpose of the Sr. Director of Human Resources is to lead our strategy with external and internal sources to effectively assist in hiring, onboarding, and developing elite team members with a passion to intentionally elevate our team member experience. The Director will lead to improve HR systems and payroll efficiencies, oversee and document required training, certifications and licensing, direct employee compensation and benefit programs, ensure thorough personnel files and recordkeeping, provide consultation and leadership for all people operations issues, lead onboarding of new practice acquisitions, and ensure company compliance in all employment related functions.

The Human Resources Director makes others feel comfortable and confident in their presence, delivering total care for our team members through innovative, heartfelt, personalized service in an inspired environment, and additional competencies contained herein.

Responsibilities:

• Direct the Recruiting team and ensure a top-grading recruitment process is completed for all candidates.
• Leads the recruiting strategy to support our goals as an organization and collaborates closely with the Recruiter to ensure that we are executing and delivering on those goals.
• Oversees and helps facilitate all new employee orientations.
• Ensures employee paperwork is completed and filed in the personnel file per recordkeeping requirements.
• Oversees preemployment background checks to include criminal background check and drug screening.
• Assists employees in completing benefit paperwork.
• Administers Health plans/Savings accounts/Dental/Vision/Voluntary plans/401(k) retirement program
• Communicates with employees when training, testing, and required licenses are expiring, due, or need completed, to ensure compliance.
• Manages all unemployment claims.
• Manages workers compensation incidents, injuries, reporting, and care coordination.
• Ensures driving and accident reports are managed properly.
• Updates Paycom (HRIS) to ensure employee data is collected, current, correct and reviews data.
• Completes and submits weekly or monthly HR reporting and updates organization and leadership team.
• Schedules and leads the direction of required training.
• Manages annual department budget.
• Assists with coordinating and organizing team member activities that help create a joyful and fun culture.
• Acts as a strategic leadership team member and provides input on planning, operations, and policy development aligned to our purpose, mission and culture.
• Thorough knowledge of payroll and HRIS systems and ability to process payroll and all required HRIS reporting.
• Assists with leave of absence administration and ADA compliance.
• Writes and updates job descriptions, company policies and SOP’s as needed.
• Works with managers on development initiatives and succession planning to support growth initiatives.
• Ensures performance discussions and positive feedback is timely for team members.
• Supports rewards and recognition of team members and creates intentional moments.
• Completes exit interviews for employees leaving the company and advises executive team of retention opportunities.
• Investigates complaints, collaborates with leaders on coaching, documentation, and terminations.
• Be familiar with COVID practices and function as a resource for employees and management.
• Develops organization strategies that align with our beliefs, behaviors and outcomes (BBO’s).
• Lead all HR operations such as payroll, vendor management, and benefits administration.
• Engage as necessary with legal counsel related to employment laws.
• Supports management by providing human resources advice, counsel, and decisions.
• Guides management and employee actions by researching, developing, writing, and updating policies.
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation.

Education/License Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or related field, or equivalent experience, required.

Experience Requirements:

• 7 years comprehensive Human Resources experience, at a similar or higher level of responsibility

Skills Requirements:

• Must have moderate to advanced MS Office computer skills.
• Ability to work within a team environment and lend support as needed.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Strong leadership skills
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Good critical thinking skills
• Professional etiquette, customer service or hospitality style skills

Physical Requirements:

Level 1: A combination of sitting, standing, and walking with little requirement for physical effort. There may be a requirement to exert light physical effort for short periods. Ability to travel on an airplane and occasional overnight stays.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Manages a team of 1 to 5 individuals, including hiring, firing, disciplinary and performance responsibilities.

Travel Requirements:

1% - 10% travel required.

The ability on occasion to travel, including air travel and overnight travel, as needed for onsite visits to Espire Dental practice locations.

Job Competencies:

• Compatibility & Fit- Personal and professional desires are aligned with opportunity and location in Denver, CO.
• Ambition, Energy & Attitude- Can-do approach, sees opportunities, initiative-taker, committed, powerful desire to achieve, high dedication level.
• Presence- Professional appearance, looks the part, acts the part, healthy non-verbal’s, team members have positive examples to follow.
• Self- aware- Recognizes own strengths and weaknesses, not defensive, does not blame, seeks growth.
• Judgement & Decision Making- Neither indecisive nor shoot from the hip, disciplined, thoughtful.
• Company First- Executes and maintains established company purpose, mission and culture.
• Stress Management- Stable and poised under pressure and expectations, does not let unhealthy emotions, or feeling leak to employees or referents.
• Communication- Clear, precise, respectful, and professional (including written communication).
• Team Player- Approachable, solicits the larger team in decisions, eliminates us vs. them.
• Adaptable- Flexible with complexity and change.
• Organization & Planning- Avoids last minute decisions whenever possible, keeps first things first, considerate of schedule and decisions impacting others.
• Creative- Generates innovative approaches, shows imagination.
• Excellence- Sets ambitious standards of performance for self, eager to grow, learn, and improve. High sense of responsibility and ownership of job.
• Likeability- Puts people at ease, friendly, sense of humor, genuine.
• Listening- Tunes in accurately to opinions, feelings, and needs of people. Empathic. Listens actively.
• Conflict Management- Understands conflict and acts to prevent or soften them. Effectively works through conflict to optimize outcomes. Does not suppress, ignore, or deny conflict. Understand that close relationships and great teams have conflict.
• Balance- Achieves sufficient balance among work, wellness, relationship, professional associates, and self-aware enough to know to set appropriate limits and self-care when necessary.

Cultural Competencies:

• Empathy- Uses empathy to connect and motivate others, listens and tunes in accurately to opinions and feelings of people, seeks to understand before being understood.
• Service- Has a servant heart, does not ask the team to do things s/he would not personally do, finds a connection to work beyond “employment.”
• Trusting Relationships- Has integrity, is approachable, and is an authentic person. Reliable and dependable. Earns the trust of co-workers. Emotionally intelligent.
• Growth-minded- Curious and inquisitive, seeks out learning opportunities, well-read, eager for more.
• Results- Has a results mindset and is dedicated to achieving positive results.

Working conditions:

Normal office environment conditions, working with office equipment such as computer, printer, and phone system. Due to residential treatment healthcare setting knowledge of safety or ability to be trained is required.