Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hillel International is a Jewish campus organization whose People Operations team supports professionals serving Jewish student life across North America. The Senior Manager, HR Operations will lead strategic HR projects, analyze workforce data, improve HR systems and processes, administer leaves and compliance activities, and support cross-functional people initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support and closely partner with Senior Human Resources Business Partners in multiple cross-functional HR projects, including employee engagement initiatives, compliance, annual performance management and compensation planning, and ad-hoc organizational initiatives
- Create executive-level dashboards, reports, integrative data summaries and presentations for senior leadership, including the Senior Vice President of People Operations
- Analyze HR, recruiting, engagement, and workforce data to identify trends, provide recommendations, and tell a compelling data-driven story
- Own and maintain the Strategic HR project and communications tracker, ensuring all team initiatives and project plans are accurate, up to date, and functioning smoothly
- Serve as project manager for multiple, overlapping initiatives, ensuring accountability and workflow efficiency and keeping the SVP of People Operations fully informed with high-level visibility
- Improve HR systems and reporting tools, ensuring accurate data reconciliation, reporting, and process documentation
- Own leaves of absence administration and operations, with an emphasis on parental leaves, while maintaining current knowledge of federal and state paid family and medical leave laws and best practices
- Serve as a subject matter expert on FLSA, overtime compliance, time reporting, and audits
- Coordinate professional development initiatives, employee requests and budget
- Collaborate with Payroll and Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Tech Services and other internal stakeholders to support talent focused initiatives and tasks
- Supervise the People Operations Coordinator, ensuring HR related data, dashboards, documentation, content and processes remain accurate and up to date
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- 4-7 years of progressive experience in Human Resources, People/HR Operations, HR Analytics, Project Management, or a related field
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders
- Experience with HR systems such as Paycor or similar HRIS platforms and Greenhouse or similar ATS platforms
- Leading complex HR or operational projects from planning through execution
- Building dashboards and synthesizing large datasets into actionable insights for senior leadership
- Developing executive presentations and communicating data in a clear, compelling manner
- Improving operational processes through organization, automation, and continuous development
- Managing competing priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail
- Strong analytical, reporting, and critical thinking skills
- Advanced Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets and PowerPoint/Google Slides skills
- Experience creating dashboards using HRIS, Power BI, Tableau, or similar reporting tools
- Working knowledge of HR systems such as Paycor, Greenhouse, or similar platforms
- Strong understanding of HR compliance, leave administration, FLSA, and employment best practices
- Outstanding organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously
- Passion for creating great workplaces and enabling people to thrive
- Skills in facilitation and meeting design, both remote and in person
- Excellent written, editorial, and verbal communication skills
- Experience in and comfort with training and coaching
- Proven success with multitasking and working collaboratively as part of a team
- Familiarity with the Jewish community and genuine respect for the diversity of Jewish life
- Prior experience working within and supporting a distributed workforce
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office suite, Google for Work, video conferencing tools, and social media
- Supervision experience preferred
- SHRM-CP or PHR certification preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Long-Term Disability (LTD) insurance
- Flexible Spending accounts
- Generous vacation/sick time
- Parental leave
- Professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities
- Remote work for eligible U.S.-based candidates
- Preference for candidates who can work hybrid (1-2 days/week) at the Washington, D.C. headquarters
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