Job Description

• Collaborates with senior leadership to understand the organization's goals and strategy related to staffing, recruiting, and retention.
• Plans, leads, develops, coordinates, and implements policies, processes, training, initiatives, and surveys to support the organization's human resource compliance and strategy needs.
• Addresses organizational staff hiring needs by establishing a recruiting, testing, and interviewing program; counseling managers on candidate selection; conducting and analyzing exit interviews; recommending changes to personnel policies.
• Maintains a compensation plan by conducting periodic pay surveys; scheduling and conducting job evaluations; preparing pay budgets; identifying the need for and scheduling individual pay actions; recommending, planning, and implementing pay structure revisions.
• Guides management and employee actions by researching, developing, writing, and updating policies, procedures, methods, and guidelines; communicates and reinforces organization values.
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to legal (federal and state) requirements; advising management on needed actions.
• Maintains employee benefits programs and informs employees of benefits by studying and assessing benefit needs and trends; recommending benefit programs to management; complying with reporting requirements, directing open enrollment; directing the processing of benefit claims; obtaining and evaluating benefit contract bids; awarding benefit contracts; approving invoices for payment, completing ACA reporting.
• Ensures planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees; hearing and addressing employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors.
• Serves as the Affirmative Action Officer, ensuring that all federal reporting requirements such as the EEO 1 and Affirmative Action Plans are produced and submitted on schedule.
• Develops human resources operations strategies by leading bi-weekly Operations Meetings; developing action plans for change management; drafting SOPs.
• Coordinates recruitment efforts for exempt, nonexempt and temporary positions by posting ads and scheduling interviews.
• Performs benefits administration by coordinating open enrollment meetings, enrolling new employees into the group health and other qualified plans, updating employee records, and communicating benefits information to employees.
• Oversees the volunteer and internship program by responding to requests, onboarding new volunteers and interns, establishing collegiate relationships, and insuring Department of Labor compliance.
• Plans and schedules employee engagement, holiday, and training events for the organization.
• Prepares payroll by collecting employee information, entering new employees into the payroll system and coordinating all changes with the accounting team on a bi-weekly basis.
• Serves as primary contact for organizational software systems such TriNet.

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of five years of related work experience in area(s) of specialization.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated organizational skills.
• Detail-oriented, takes initiative and completes tasks independently.
• Experience coordinating and leading projects.
• Ability to handle and maintain sensitive/confidential information with empathy, tact, courtesy, diplomacy and discretion.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a variety of people and be a team player; customer-service focus when interacting with staff.
• Must be able to prioritize and make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues by using judgment that is consistent with organizational policies and procedures as well as with state and/or federal law.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
• Proficiency with or the ability to quickly learn the organization's HRIS and talent management systems.

• SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP highly preferred.
• Human resource management experience.
• Experience working with a nonprofit organization.
• Experience with DIEB programs and a commitment to increasing diversity among the staff of NatureServe.
• Interest in and/or commitment to the preservation of biodiversity.

• Ability to travel independently within NatureServe and the conservation community to attend meetings with partners, vendors and the public.
• Ability to converse verbally and in writing with others regarding organizational goals and needs.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.

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