Jennifer is the JPA’s director of human resources and is responsible for all human resources programs, payroll, training services, and including assisting partner agencies in identifying needs and assigning JPA staff to meet those needs. She oversees human resource services provided to partner agencies and assists the Executive Director in coordinating internal and external operations, as well as outreach. She can reached via email or phone.
Jennifer has over 30 years of professional, public-sector human resources experience as a director of human resources for a mid-sized city, and experience in education, special districts, state government, and counties. Her professional experience is in all variety of human resources, including employee development, training, management coaching, employee retention, strategic planning, employee relations, recruitment, benefits, and customer support. Besides being the Director of Human Resources for the JPAs, Jennifer consults on a range of human resource issues, including policy and procedures, employee handbooks, classification and compensation, recruitment, benefits, organizational development, and on a wide variety of issues and programs.
Jennifer has a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco in organizational development with additional certificates from the University of California at Berkeley in training and employee development. She has developed or led diverse and innovative recruitment programs for a wide variety of classifications; managed and conducted classification and compensation studies for individuals as well as large groups; analyzed and refined benefit programs to augment offerings as well as create employer savings; performed a variety of assessments; and she has developed tactical and strategic programs to manage the work of human resources.
