This opportunity is 100% remote.
Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability clearance.
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Human Resources Generalist to join our federal team. This role is ideal for an HR professional experienced in government contracting environments and covers the full employee lifecycle including onboarding, benefits, compliance, employee relations, engagement, training coordination, and internal communications.
You’ll play a key role in supporting a mission-driven team and ensuring consistent, engaging, and compliant employee experience.
Key Responsibilities
Onboarding & Offboarding
- Manage the full onboarding process, including I-9/E-Verify compliance, background checks.
- Conduct new hire orientations and ensure access to systems, benefits, and resources.
- Coordinate offboarding activities, including exit interviews, access removal, and final documentation.
- Serve as the point of contact for benefits enrollment, life events, and employee inquiries.
- Support employees and leaders in resolving workplace matters with empathy, fairness, and professionalism, including experience managing sensitive situations such as furloughs and layoffs.
- Handle employee concerns thoughtfully and escalate issues as needed to maintain a positive and compliant workplace.
- Stay connected with remote employees to strengthen trust, communication, and engagement.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws, as well as government contractor requirements.
- Maintain accurate and confidential employee records and files.
- Support audits, compliance reporting, and filings (e.g., EEO-1, VETS-4212).
- Coordinate engagement and wellness programs such as virtual events, recognition initiatives, and employee surveys.
- Promote a culture of inclusion, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate compliance and professional development training sessions.
- Assisting managers in identifying learning opportunities.
- Support implementation of HR training tools or learning management systems (LMS).
- Assist with timecard setup, changes, and semi-monthly payroll processing.
- Use Microsoft Office Suite for reporting, documentation, and communication.
- Generate HR metrics reports (e.g., turnover, engagement, benefits participation).
- Minimum of 5 years of HR generalist experience in a government contracting environment.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience with Human Resource Information Systems.
- Knowledge of federal contractor compliance (FLSA, EEO, OFCCP).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
- Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Experience supporting remote employees.
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or a related field.
- HR certification (PHR, SHRM-CP) preferred.
- Experience with:
- Paylocity (HRIS/Payroll)
- Unanet (Timekeeping or Project Management)
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What We Do
Anika Systems is a SBA certified 8A and EDWOSB firm.
The pace at which the government is changing, there is a need for technology consulting companies that rise to those challenges by taking a fresh approach to problems, solutions that get to market faster, offer service that exceed the customers’ expectations and disrupt the status quo.
Anika Systems is an outcome-driven technology consulting firm that helps federal agencies solve business problems and enable them for the future, with services and solutions spanning Data and Analytics, Intelligent Automation, IT Modernization, Application Development and Cloud Engineering.
We’re a team of thinkers, lifelong learners, makers, and doers that deeply understand the Federal government customers missions and goals. Our teams are deeply connected and bring their shared experiences and insights to each and every engagement.
With a Show me over Tell Me philosophy which is imbibed in our corporate DNA, we produce Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and delight our customers with solutions, not boring "solution decks". We accomplish these MVPs in our poly-cloud based Virtual Innovation Transformation Acceleration Lab (VITAL), wherein we synthesize ideas into a business concept (intake), select ideas (assess, evaluate, decide) and implement the selected ideas using the appropriate technology (fulfillment).
We specialize in building Agency-wide Centers of Excellence for Data and Analytics, Intelligent Automation and Cloud Management.
