Payroll Training & Operations Coordinator

Payroll Training & Operations Coordinator

Full-time • Competitive Pay & Benefits

The Outreach Team is a firm that specializes in face-to-face canvassing. We partner with organizations working to solve some of the biggest problems facing our society -- from protecting human rights to fighting climate change -- and help them build the resources they need to make an impact. We are a people-powered enterprise; our campaigns are effective because we hire diverse teams of talented people, invest in our staff, and treat them well.

The Payroll Training & Operations Coordinator is a full time position for an experienced project and people manager who loves administration, data, technology, and training.The position is remote within the U.S. and involves significant travel to conduct in-person trainings for launches and other priority trainings (ranging from approximately 1 week per month during off-cycle months up to every week during peak months). Unfortunately we can't hire people who would be working from these states: Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia.

• Lead all training for new Admin Directors across the country during office launches
• Develop and facilitate comprehensive training programs including Basic Admin Training, Payroll Training, and FPOW Training
• Shadow and provide hands-on training with new Admin Directors during their first payroll cycle
• Create and maintain training materials, process documentation, and guides for administrative processes
• Establish positive relationships with project leadership to ensure smooth administrative functions
• Continually evaluate and improve training programs to ensure trainees successfully learn the content and can apply it effectively

• Work with Admin, Recruitment and Systems teams to ensure quality of new hire packets and data for onboarding
• Oversee the discrete task portions of the biweekly payroll process for hourly staff including onboarding, offboarding, and transfers
• Responsible for bottom lining the quality of data used for the payroll processes
• Drive development and innovation of administrative processes and systems
• Help develop cleaner data in the upload processes in conjunction with the recruitment department
• Train admin and field staff on new systems or upgrades as we make more efficient or effective processes
• Work with team members, Recruitment and Systems teams, as well as directly with new hires, to ensure and improve quality of data
• Ensure proper coding of hourly employees with appropriate state and local tax codes
• Ensure streamlined processes for adding new staff to company systems (GSuite, Slack, etc)

• Demonstrated experience in training and developing staff; Excellent Team Builder
• Significant experience designing and delivering effective training programs
• Fluency in G Suite, particularly Google Sheets
• Project Manager/Administrative mindset – being organized, responsive, able to create thoughtful and thorough plans, and consistently hit outlined deadlines
• Extremely detail-oriented: ability to catch small and large errors that most people miss
• Demonstrated experience centering equity and justice in your work
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing circumstances
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex processes clearly
• Experience scaling teams and operations to meet growth demands
• Proven ability to forecast resource needs and staff accordingly

• ADP experience
• Experience with payroll systems and processes
• Background in managing remote teams
• Experience with troubleshooting technical issues related to HR systems
• Experience developing training materials for different learning styles
• Success in building teams that can quickly scale up or pivot as organizational needs change

This is a salaried position with a range of $52,600-$67,600 per year depending on experience. We offer benefits including fully paid health care, vacation and sick days. This role is a Specialist 1 position, responsibility level 1. 

Hours Expectations

This job follows the payroll cycle and requires weekend work. The Payroll Training & Operations Coordinator should expect to work 5-6 days per week with full workdays. In the training months that you work as a Payroll Associate you will work 15-20 hours per week, or as needed depending on campaigns. 

At The Outreach Team, we prioritize equity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage Black, indigenous, people of color, women, people with previous felony convictions, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and others who identify with underrepresented groups to apply.

Please note: We want to hire people of all gender identities. This hiring platform (JazzHR) does not allow us to add in specific options for gender identities outside of the binary, but we are currently working with them to find a solution.