WROC is Rochester's leading source for local news, weather, information, and community storytelling across every screen and platform. From television and streaming to digital, social, and marketing solutions, our team is driven by innovation, collaboration, and a passion for serving the communities we call home. As we continue to grow and evolve, we're looking for talented people who want to make an impact and help us define what's next.
Rochester combines big-city opportunity with small-city accessibility, offering affordability, great neighborhoods, excellent schools, and endless opportunities to explore the Finger Lakes region.
HR Coordinator - The HR Coordinator is responsible for attracting, onboarding, engaging, and retaining talent while administering key HR programs and processes. This role serves as a strategic partner to employees and managers, helping foster an exceptional employee experience and a strong workplace culture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Talent Acquisition through LinkedIn, job boards, college recruiting, internships, career fairs, and community outreach programs.
- Build and Promote Employer Brand by showcasing employee achievements, workplace culture, community involvement, and career opportunities across social media platforms.
- Drive Employee Engagement & Recognition through events, milestone celebrations, employee programs, and culture-building initiatives.
- Manage Onboarding & Orientation to ensure new employees are welcomed, integrated, and set up for success from day one.
- Administer Core HR Processes including employee records, benefits administration, leave management, payroll coordination, and compliance reporting.
- Support Employee Development & Retention by partnering with managers on training, performance management, and employee retention strategies.
- Serve as an HR Resource for employees and managers, providing guidance on policies, benefits, and employee programs.
- Maintain HR Compliance through accurate recordkeeping, EEO reporting, regulatory requirements, and company policy administration.
- Partner with Leadership & Corporate HR to support staffing, organizational initiatives, employee relations, and business objectives.
Requirements & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, plus 3-5 years
- Interpersonal savvy – relates well with all people
- Builds rapport and effective relations and uses diplomacy and tact. Confidentiality is crucial
- Approachability – is easy to approach and talk to; is a good listener
- Action Oriented – enjoys working hard, and is action oriented
- Problem solving & decision making – uses logic and methods to solve difficult problems, finds sources for input, makes good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement
- Planning/organizing – prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans
- Developing self & others – confident and assertive when providing coaching, guidance or direction
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 3-5 years of relevant experience
- Interpersonal savvy and ability to relate well with all people
- Ability to build rapport and effective relationships using diplomacy and tact
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Approachability, active listening, and accessibility to employees and managers
- Action-oriented approach and willingness to work hard
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills using logic, analysis, experience, and judgment
- Planning and organizing skills, including prioritization and efficient time management
- Ability to develop realistic action plans
- Ability to coach, guide, and provide direction to others
What We Do
Nexstar Media Group is the largest TV station operator in the country. With the reach of 171 full power television stations in 100 markets addressing nearly 38.9% of US television households, and a diversified, growing digital media operation, Nexstar Media Group offers superior audience engagement across all media devices and local broadcast television’s unrivalled influence on consumers’ purchasing and political decisions. In 20 years, Nexstar has grown from a single station to the nation’s largest television company. This growth is fueled by an organization-wide commitment to delivering exceptional service to our communities and outstanding results for our advertisers. From the very beginning, Nexstar has cultivated an organization-wide commitment to providing superior, unique local content that is relevant to each of the communities it serves, while offering local businesses, advertisers and brands the ability to engage and connect with local communities.
