[Hiring] Employee & Labor Relations Analyst @County of Marin

Role Description

The Employee and Labor Relations Analyst is a trusted partner to leaders across the organization, helping them navigate the full spectrum of Human Resources policies, practices, and labor regulations. In this role, you’ll use your expertise to:

• Interpret policies and advise on complex workplace situations.
• Support a positive, productive employee experience.
• Perform a variety of analytical studies and projects related to the work.

Serving as a key resource for designated departments and bargaining units, you’ll support and guide labor relations activities, including:

• Participating in meet-and-confer processes.
• Assisting with successor contract negotiations.
• Responding to union information requests.
• Advising on bargaining strategies that strengthen organizational relationships.
• Researching and evaluating grievances, complaints, and claims, providing thoughtful, well-supported recommendations.

Beyond labor relations, you’ll help departments navigate employee performance issues, progressive discipline, and due process requirements. You may also deliver training and learning sessions that equip managers and staff with the tools they need to thrive.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, relationship-building, and making a measurable impact on workplace culture.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of basic principles and practices of human resources administration including applicable laws, codes, regulations, and ordinances.
• Practices of conducting research and preparing effective reports, procedures, correspondence, and other written materials.
• Standard office software applications, practices, and procedures.
• Test construction, analysis, and evaluation.
• Methodology for determining reliability and validity of written, oral, and performance tests.
• Equal opportunity employment.
• Classification plans, job analysis, and job design.
• Methodology of conducting salary and benefits surveys and analysis, including establishing comparability, and statistical sampling and analysis.
• State and federal laws, regulations, case law, and court decisions impacting employee and labor relations in the public sector.
• Leave administration.
• Equal employment laws, policies, and guidelines.
• Adult learning theories, communication processes, and training design.
• Organizational development theories and practices.
• Local, state, and federal occupational safety and health regulations, standards, and best practices related to Injury and Illness Prevention, Workplace Violence Prevention, Ergonomics, Emergency Preparedness, and other occupational safety programs in a public-sector setting.
• Operational characteristics, services, and activities of a human resources information system.
• Business writing and editing.

Requirements

• Perform professional level human resources analytical staff work in assigned areas of responsibility.
• Interpret, apply, and explain applicable laws, ordinances, memoranda of understanding, and policies and procedures.
• Collect, analyze, interpret, and evaluate a variety of data.
• Prepare clear and concise reports, correspondence, and work products related to the assignment.
• Use initiative and sound independent judgment within established procedural guidelines.
• Communicate effectively, including making presentations to individuals and groups.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those interacted with in the course of the work, including County officials and managers, employee representatives, representatives of other governmental agencies, employees, interns, and the public.

Minimum Qualifications

• One year of experience equivalent to a Human Resources Analyst I performing professional level human resources work.
• Qualifying experience will be limited to experience directly related to this assignment.