Human Resources Director

Do you enjoy building connections between your contributions and the success of your organization and its customer base, our students? Are you looking for an opportunity to put your variety of human resources skills to work on a daily basis? Hesston College is looking for an energetic and creative person to fill our open Human Resources Director position. As Hesston’s Human Resources Director, you are responsible for the overall vision and direction of Hesston College human resources, including all aspects of personnel management and delivery of institutional employee benefits.

As the primary HR representative (supervising the payroll and benefits manager) you will be responsible for end-to-end human resource functions, both transactional and strategic. You will provide recruitment services, benefit administration (via a consortium) and performance management for faculty, staff and student workers. This includes: developing and maintaining staffing strategies based on the institutional strategic plan; designing, implementing and maintaining policies and procedures; overseeing payroll and related processes; ensuring compliance with federal, state and local regulations; and maintaining confidentiality of information and records.

If you share our values and our enthusiasm to educate and nurture each student within Christ-centered community, integrating thought, life and faith for service to others in the church and the world, you will find a home at Hesston College.

Our goal is to find someone with a bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration or a related field, who has at least five years of experience working in human resources. Our preference is to find someone with a master’s degree with experience in leadership and a progressive increase in responsibilities within human resources.

If this on site full-time, 12-month work agreement, benefits-eligible position sounds of interest to you, tell us you are interested by sending a cover letter, application and resume to joinus@hesston.edu. Don’t feel like you meet all the above requirements? Apply anyway. Our goal is to hire the most qualified candidates, and that could be you! We will start reviewing applications immediately.