People Operations Business Partner
Vero Networks
Manager, People & Culture
Thousand Currents
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $97,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Assist with recruitment and hiring processes, in line with established strategy and in close collaboration with hiring managers, providing relevant expertise in the development of job descriptions and candidate assessment.
- Manage onboarding schedules aligned with established processes, supporting hiring managers and co-workers in understanding and fulfilling their roles, ensuring new staff feel welcomed and confident in completing required onboarding functions.
- Collaborate with staff and supervisors to ensure job descriptions are up-to-date and clearly reflect current responsibilities and expectations.
- Approach current people & culture processes with an eye for refinement, collecting feedback, conducting best practice research, and proposing improvements.
- Support human centric and values aligned offboarding processes.
- Capitalize on available data to surface trends and inform retention strategies and culture levers.
- Serve as primary HR contact for all employees, escalating matters to the Director, People & Culture as necessary.
- Oversee administration of the human resources information system (HRIS, currently Bamboo HR), ensuring relevant documents are secure, organized, and accessible at the appropriate level, and personnel data is up-to-date.
- Manage benefits programs, coordinate annual Open Enrollment, assist in plan administration, enrollment, and compliance, and responding rapidly to employees questions or requests.
- Provide bi-weekly payroll updates to the Finance team and support timely personnel updates across all relevant platforms (HRIS, payroll, benefits, etc.).
- In collaboration with appropriate operations and technology staff, ensure People & Culture tools, resources, documents, and data are securely stored, easily searchable, and maintained in accordance with record retention laws and requirements.
- Ensure relevant HR dates, deadlines, and processes are communicated to staff, and information regarding people and culture processes flows smoothly.
- Track key employee and contractor dates, prompting timely action on renewals or position updates, while ensuring impacted staff remain informed.
- Support strategies to improve employee engagement, celebration, and foster a collaborative, aligned, and joyful work environment.
- Champion and integrate organization values into daily operations, implementing programs and providing resources to support employee well-being and work-life balance.
- In coordination with the Director, People & Culture, proactively engage staff to improve working relationships, build morale, and increase retention.
- Manage implementation of performance reviews, goal setting processes, staff development initiatives and development stipends, orienting supervisors and staff as needed to the process and enabling a culture of continuing learning.
- Support staff and supervisors with feedback systems, role clarity, and growth planning.
- Show up fully for organizational activities, including staff meetings, retreats and training.
- Enable appropriate information-sharing and work collaboratively with colleagues as necessary for cross program activities and functions.
- Pitch in when needed for organization-wide activities, such as the Thousand Currents Academy, annual events, fundraising drives, etc.
- Manage regular personal administration, including timely submission of receipts, reimbursement requests, scheduling, travel planning, filing HR paperwork etc.
Requirements
- Deep alignment with Thousand Currents’ values and mission, including a strong commitment to social and/or environmental justice and equity, with experience in feminist, community-centered, or social justice-oriented people & culture approaches.
- Five or more years of relevant, comparable professional HR experience, including a track record of progressive growth in responsibleness, in a systems change focused nonprofit or philanthropic intermediary.
- SHRM certification is considered an asset.
- Cross-cultural competency, prior experience working in and with multi-national or international organizations is considered an asset.
- Highly approachable, trustworthy, and skilled in building authentic relationships across diverse identities and cultures while operating in a remote environment across multiple timezones.
- Strong judgment and discretion in dealing with sensitive information.
- Able to travel internationally - approximately 2 weeks/year - and work occasional irregular hours to accommodate staff time zones.
- Written and spoken English fluency required and proficiency in additional language(s) is an asset.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- 100% of employee and dependent cost for Health, Dental, and Vision for employee + medical travel insurance for employee
- 10 paid annual holidays + open paid time off policy allowing flexible time off
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Up to $1,000 stipend to set up work space, $2,000 per year wellness stipend, $1,500 per year work from home expenses, and up to $2,000 per year for learning and development
- Retirement contribution allowance of 4% of gross salary
- Life Insurance + Long & Short Term Disability Insurance
- Possibility of sabbatical leave after seven years of employment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
human resources information system (HRIS)Bamboo HRpayroll administrationbenefits program managementonboarding processesoffboarding processesperformance reviewsgoal settingemployee engagement strategiesdata analysis
Soft skills
cross-cultural competencyrelationship buildingtrustworthinessapproachabilityjudgmentdiscretioncollaborationcommunicationadaptabilityproblem-solving
Certifications
SHRM certification
