DEBORAH STRAYHORN

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Human Resources Leader

Summary

HR leader with over 25 years of people leadership experience. Cultivating strategic alliances advising and partnering with all levels to drive organizational transformation. Action oriented leader with a focus on driving growth and change through empathy, diversity, and inclusion to achieve excellence.

SHRM-Certified Professional

Core Competencies

Relationship

Management

HR Program Development

Strategic Planning

Process Improvement

Organizational Development

Cross-Functional

Team Leadership

Executive Level

Presentations

Creative Problem Solving

Business and Data Analytics

Succession Planning

Workforce Planning

Leadership Training/Coaching

Employee Relations

HRIS Implementation

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Professional Experience

Manassas Park City Schools 7/2022 to Present

Director, Talent Management/Human Resources & Administration

• Drive overall HR strategic plan to achieve best in industry recruiting, employee relations and morale, engagement, retention, and overall employee wellness.

• Create and manage employee performance program to improve overall performance, employee satisfaction, succession planning, and training and development.

• Modernize/enhance HR processes and systems including cloud-based HR files, enhanced/modernized onboarding processes, launched a learning management system, and implemented continuous reviews through a cloud-based system.

• Budget for and manage employee incentive plans, wellness programs, and team building events, that contribute to overall retention and minimize health plan cost.

• Oversee annual HR compliance trainings and assess need for ongoing corporate and management trainings delivering trainings where necessary.

• Manage employee training budget reducing cost of required outsourced trainings through purchase of learning management system.

• Create recruiting procedures, standardize the recruiting process, and provide training on effective interviewing and recruiting to ensure the greatest visibility to prospective job seekers and reduce time to fill positions. Decreased time to fill by 40% and effectively increased market visibility.

• Engage with target schools in developing relationships with programs and campus leaders to support entry level staffing goals through strategic partnerships.

• Strategically realign college recruiting programs and intern programs to drive top tier interns from target colleges and universities.

• Conduct ongoing analysis of hiring metrics and overall demographics to address realignment of recruiting goals to focus on increased recruitment of diverse groups including minorities and women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. DEBORAH STRAYHORN

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• Actively recruit international applicants and work with immigration attorneys to seek H1-B Visas and increase employee retention.

• Review overall pay data to ensure pay inequities do not exist within the company.

• Standardize job titles and created job groups/families promoting career path development and succession planning within the individual contributor and management roles.

• Recommend and process promotions, market adjustments, and merit increases in accordance with company policy.

• Review, recommend changes to, and update corporate policies to maintain compliance and ensure policies trend with updated HR processes and laws.

• Facilitate communication and resolution of employee suggestions and complaints.

• Maintain online HR Portal and Communication Sites to facilitate a unified employee base.

● Drive the overall HR strategic plan that is committed to leadership development, increasing employee morale, engagement, motivation, and retention.

● Coach Generalist and Recruiting team to meet all strategic goals surrounding HR and recruiting metrics.

● Design and implement a more strategic, proactive recruitment program that focuses on acquiring talent from leading industry providers, resulting in increased program staffing with decreased time to fill.

● Closely partnered with management to attain positive employee relations through coaching and leadership training programs.

● Relied on to recommend, develop, implement, and communicate HR policies and objectives, ensuring consistent application across departments and employee buy in.

● Provide counsel to executive leadership team on market trends and competitive practices, resulting in creative solutions to required HR expenditures achieving best in industry results at decreased corporate cost.

● Fully investigated employee concerns and complaints fairly and in timely manner.

● Direct and monitor the annual appraisal process to ensure timely review of employee performance, consistent with company policy.

● Procure, evaluate, customize, update, and test HRIS system.

● Monitor cost of human capital overhead and continually seek better options at a lower cost to the company.

● Escalation point for employee discipline, performance improvement, and sensitive terminations.

Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA 8/1996 to 7/2022 1. Principal, School Based Administrator

• Worked with an administrative staff of twelve at the largest school in Virginia to ensure staffing, budgeting, recruiting, hiring, and evaluating of staff was seamless and timely.

• Liaison between school and human resources to hire and onboard over seventy-five teachers and support staff each year.

• Supervised all instructional programs for 4200 students; supervised 430 staff members.

• Recruit, hire, supervise, evaluate, and support exceptional school personnel.

• Responsible for administering the employee evaluation process, to include training assistant principals.

• Directed internal investigations of misconduct or incompetent performance, and take appropriate action as needed.

• Experienced in the grievance process.

• Ensured documentation was sufficient to withstand third party review and comply with state code requirements.

• Served on the Human Resource Committee for the Middle School Principals’ Association.

• Partnered with the Human Resources Department and attended out of state recruitment events and virtual hiring fairs.

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• Partnered with George Mason University to establish student observations and internships for a future hiring pool of candidates.

• Supervised all instructional programming and personnel.

• Created an instructional coaching team to ensure students receive a rich and differentiated curriculum.

• Recognized students and staff continually for their academic, co-curricular and professional achievements.

• Managed financial resources to ensure that all necessary instructional and support staff, materials, textbooks, and technological needs for the school are adequately funded.

• Ensured school safety through a comprehensive school crisis management plan involving staff, police, security personnel, community, and students.

• Responsible for the physical operations and community use of the largest school in the state of Virginia.

• Responsible for school-wide finance and budgets

• Supervised the building engineer and the custodial department, which consisted of over thirty custodians.

• Served as a supervisor for teacher interns seeking administrative endorsements, many of whom are now successful principals and assistant principals within FCPS.

• Assisted with staff /student mentor program and mentored one or more at-risk students every year.

Awards/Commendations/Recognitions

• Outstanding Principal Nominee, 2021-2022

• Outstanding Principal Nominee, 2020-2021

• Served on Advanced Ed Accreditation Team, September 2018

• Septa nomination for outstanding special educator, June 2018

• Outstanding First Year Principal Nominee, 2006

• Fairfax County Federation of Teachers – Top Rated Principal Award, 2006

• Fairfax County Federation of Teachers – Top Rated Principal Award, 2007

• Above and Beyond the Call of Duty Recognition, 2004 and 2010

• Career Connections Award, FCPS Partners in Education, 2005 and 2007

• Jay Mathews, The Washington Post Magazine- Kilmer Middle School rated one of thirty

“Area’s Best Middle Schools” April 15, 2007

• Kilmer Middle School, one of sixty schools in the nation honored as a Recognized American School

• Counselor Association Model Program (RAMP), 2007 by the American School Counseling Association

• Kilmer Middle School recognized on Apple 21 as the only FCPS school to communicate grades electronically to parents every two weeks, “No Surprises”

• Elected to the Middle School Principal Association (MSPA) Executive Board and served as the Human Resources Committee Chairperson, 2007-2009

• Represented FCPS on a leadership trip to China and added Chinese to Kilmer DEBORAH STRAYHORN

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Education

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Endorsement in Administration and Supervision

SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

Master’s in Special Education

Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Bachelor’s in Sociology/Psychology

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