Employee Relations Partner

Apply your expertise to advance the mission and optimize our business strategy as an Employee Relations Partner at GDIT. Here, you’ll support solving some of our clients’ biggest challenges and help us grow the business. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. GDIT's Employee Relations Team has an opening for an Employee Relations Partner. In this role, you will be a key contributor to a world-class center of excellence team within our Human Resources division. This position offers 100% telework.

Tasks and responsibilities in this role include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provides consultation on ER matters to employees at all levels within the organization, and escalates as appropriate
• Collaborates with HR leadership to facilitate activities to positively enhance the GDIT employee experience, and contribute to proactively addressing ER issues before they occur
• Supports workforce reduction planning
• Prepares WARN analysis
• Conducts investigations of staff reductions resulting in layoff, client removals, and employee complaints and disputes, documents findings and recommends disciplinary action and/or appropriate resolution
• Effectively partners with other departments during investigations to include legal, HR, accommodations, payroll, and benefits
• Completes analysis of data, partners with stakeholders, provides recommendations to mitigate risk
• Assists managers in preparing for employee conversations, and corrective action documents
• Effectively communicates investigative findings in written justifications and summaries
• Maintains accurate and timely case documentation
• Prepares and coordinates off-boarding paperwork and related activities for involuntary separations
• Provides detailed case documentation and employee profile information to Corporate Legal and/or outside counsel, and participates in deposition proceedings as directed

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree plus 2+ years of related HR experience; OR combination of education, related work experience, and/or training (in lieu of degree 6 years experience required)
• Two years experience in the area of conducting workplace investigations
• HR experience in a federal contracting environment
• Layoff/Workforce reduction planning experience
• Must be a US Citizen
• Skilled in basic HR and employment law principles
• Experience with conducting interviews that result in critical fact gathering
• Experience interacting with all levels of employees on employee relations issues
• Experience consulting on multiple employee relations issues that vary in scope and complexity
• Ability to manage a high volume of employee relations cases
• Highly refined written and verbal communication skills
• Strong conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work effectively in a virtual team environment
• Ability to maintain high level of confidentiality regarding employee information
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and virtual tools such as Zoom/Skype/MSTeams

Preferred Qualifications:

• OCONUS / expatriate staffing experience