WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Employee Lifecycle Support
- Manage onboarding tasks: background checks, new hire paperwork, and orientation delivery
- Serve as point-of-contact for new employees during onboarding
- Conduct new hire check-ins and help evaluate onboarding effectiveness
- Support offboarding processes, including exit paperwork and system updates
- Support annual benefits open enrollment and related communication
- Assist with bi-monthly payroll processing and personnel changes
- Provide support with benefits questions and coordinate employee status updates
- Maintain accurate employee records, including personnel files, OrgChart, and emergency contact info
- Support HRIS updates and reporting as needed
- Help manage updates to the company’s internal HR web pages
- Act as first point-of-contact for general employee HR inquiries
- Assist with planning and coordination of company events and wellness initiatives
- Help support internal HR communications and training initiatives
- Assist with immigration paperwork, audits, and related compliance tasks
- Stay informed on employment laws and assist in ensuring regulatory compliance
- Contribute to cross-functional HR projects and process improvements
HERE’S WHAT A DAY IN THIS ROLE COULD LOOK LIKE:
- You’ll start of your day monitoring the HR team inbox, flagging any urgent requests and providing responses as appropriate. You’ll continue to monitor and triage the inbox over the course of the day.
- You’ll spend the rest of the morning processing personnel changes, updating employee records and onboarding documents, and every other week preparing for bi-monthly payroll. You will attend team meetings as needed and discuss project updates.
- You’ll also attend a 30 and 90 day new hire check-in meeting to see how the new hire is progressing in their onboarding and training.
- Before wrapping up for the day, you’ll update your manager on any pending items for the day or employee/office concerns that occurred during the day.
WHO YOU ARE
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of relevant HR experience
- Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Experience handling confidential information with discretion and professionalism
- Strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Demonstrated initiative and ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Familiarity with payroll processes and employment immigration procedures
- Ability to build positive relationships across departments
- Familiarity with federal and state employment laws and regulations
- Experience working with HRIS platforms
- Knowledge of employee benefits programs and open enrollment process
- SPHR or other relevant HR certification
- Interest or background in health or social policy
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Acumen, LLC works to improve the information provided to policymakers who design and revise welfare, health, education, labor, and business programs at the national, state, and local levels. In conjunction with its affiliated nonprofit firm, the SPHERE Institute, Acumen offers practitioners a powerful policy analysis capability, providing specific, impartial advice and context for policy debates.
We are committed to the improvement of public policy through information management, and we have worked with several agencies to develop resources to build their internal databases and self-evaluation capacity. To supplement internal sources of information, our team has created and utilized all forms of administrative and survey data to produce outcomes relevant for both service providers and funding organizations.
Acumen members have experience conveying information and research findings to broad audiences of policymakers, program operators, and other stakeholders. With these interrelated goals and expertise, Acumen, LLC serves the interests of the public, government, business and the research community.
