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Director of Human Resources – Part-time
The Water Project. Serve as the primary point of contact for employee and manager HR questions .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in human resources management, including employee relations, performance management, and compliance with federal and multi-state employment requirements. Proficient in administering HR operations, benefits, and payroll processes while providing strategic support to leadership and managing sensitive personnel matters.
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Employee Relations ManagementPerformance Management ProcessesFederal Employment ComplianceHR Operations AdministrationCompensation Structure Development
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Hard Skills
HR OperationsBenefits AdministrationPayroll ProcessingPerformance ManagementRecruitingCompensation ReviewsEmployee DocumentationOnboarding CoordinationLeave ManagementPolicy Development
Soft Skills
JudgmentDiscretionEmpathyOrganizationCommunication
Tools & Technologies
JustworksPEO SystemsHR Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
SHRM-CPSHRM-SCPPHRSPHR
Industry Keywords
Human ResourcesEmployee HandbookPerformance CycleWorkforce PlanningOrganizational Design
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Serve as the primary point of contact for employee and manager HR questions
- Manage onboarding, job and status changes, leave coordination, and offboarding
- Maintain confidential personnel records and required HR documentation
- Administer and improve the employee handbook, HR policies, templates, checklists, and procedures
- Coordinate benefits and payroll-related employee information through Justworks or another PEO
- Maintain the HR compliance calendar and complete recurring filings, notices, training, and policy reviews
- Partner with hiring managers on role definition, job descriptions, hiring plans, and selection processes
- Coordinate postings, screening, interviews, references, offers, background checks, and pre-employment documentation
- Advise the President & CEO and managers on employee relations, performance, conduct, accommodations, leave, and personnel matters
- Receive and assess employee concerns, conduct fact-finding, and ensure fair, confidential, documented resolutions
- Support manager training on interviewing, feedback, documentation, anti-harassment, leave, and employment responsibilities
- Coordinate performance-management cycles and coach managers on expectations, feedback, documentation, and difficult conversations
- Support compensation reviews, market benchmarking, job classification, salary-range development, and career-growth conversations
- Partner with Finance on compensation and benefits costs and with the President & CEO on workforce planning and organizational design
- Maintain employee information in the PEO and HR systems and protect confidential access
- Track HR measures including headcount, turnover, recruiting activity, performance-cycle completion, and leave trends
- Provide concise updates to the President & CEO on employee matters, compliance risks, decisions, and workload priorities
- Coordinate with Finance & Operations on payroll changes, benefits costs, systems access, equipment, and onboarding/offboarding
- Maintain predictable weekly availability and respond to time-sensitive matters generally within one business day
- Complete core HR responsibilities within an average of approximately 15 hours per week
Requirements
What you’ll need- Typically seven or more years of progressive, hands-on human-resources experience
- Meaningful ownership of an HR function or broad generalist portfolio
- Experience handling employee relations, performance concerns, leave and accommodation questions, and sensitive personnel matters
- Working knowledge of federal and multi-state employment requirements
- Judgment to recognize when legal guidance is needed
- Experience administering benefits, payroll inputs, policies, personnel records, and other HR operations
- Experience supporting compensation reviews, performance-management processes, recruiting, and manager coaching
- Strong judgment, discretion, empathy, organization, and follow-through
- Clear, practical written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort working independently in a remote environment
- Ability to balance strategic advice with detailed administrative execution
- Experience as the sole or senior HR practitioner in a small nonprofit or similarly lean organization preferred
- Experience supporting a distributed workforce across several U.S. states preferred
- Familiarity with Justworks or a comparable PEO preferred
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, or another relevant credential preferred
- Experience developing compensation structures, manager resources, and scalable HR processes preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) match
- Generous vacation policy
- Flexible part-time schedule and regular availability
- Remote work anywhere in the United States