Boston Hiring for Human Resources Manager Job at Roxbury, MA Full Time

About the Opportunity

826 Boston seeks an experienced professional who is passionate about human resources and poised to play a pivotal role in our journey to becoming an anti-racist organization.

Candidates for this position should be prepared to work some of their hours at 826 Boston’s physical location(s). All employees must establish that they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

Mission: 826 Boston is a nonprofit writing, tutoring, and publishing organization where students in grades K-12 and beyond can share their stories, amplify their voices, and develop as leaders in school and in life.

Responsibilities:

• Manage staff hiring processes
• Manage all HR functions for the on-boarding and off-boarding of new employees
• Manage payroll
• Co-develop DEI goals and action plans for the HR department with the Deputy Director; collaborate to ensure all HR systems and practices are in alignment with those goals
• Partner in developing, implementing, and updating HR policies and procedures
• Ensure that employees are working in alignment with 826 Boston’s HR policies
• Support employee relations matters
• Serve as point person for employees’ and managers’ HR questions
• Maintain employee personnel files
• Manage the staff performance evaluation system
• Manage the staff well-being survey process
• Support with employee benefit programs
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment and benefits laws
• Train staff on priority HR topics and recruit qualified facilitators where needed

Qualifications: The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic collaborator with a demonstrated commitment to equity-based, anti-racist principles and practices in the HR domain.

Skills and experiences: 826 Boston recognizes that impostor phenomenon can sometimes play a role in deciding whether or not to apply for a position. We are committed to assessing candidates with transferable skills and a willingness to be trained for this role.

• 2-3 years human resources experience
• Knowledge of HR laws and experience with benefits administration
• Exceptional relationship management and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience in a workplace that prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Experience developing and implementing DEI-aligned processes and protocols
• A strong collaborator and a commitment to learning and growth
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Compensation: $60,000 per year. Benefits include generous paid time off (including vacation, sick leave, holidays, and a two-week winter break); highly flexible work environment with work-from-home options; health and dental insurance (826 Boston covers 80% of premiums); parental leave; and more.

This is an exempt, full-time position that reports to the Director of Human Resources and Operations. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. In addition to this application, please also complete the following form (https://tinyurl.com/826jobapp) and note the confirmation code shown upon completion of the form, which you will be asked to share below. The code is universal for all applicants and is used to verify completion of the form.

826 Boston Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

At 826 Boston, we honor and actively work toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across our organization. We are committed to centering the voices of the students who we serve, to creating inclusive spaces, and to incorporating feedback from our community into our decision-making processes. Our DEI lens is always evolving through the courageous conversations in which we participate and the relationships that we build through our work and service. We strengthen our cultural competency through experience, training, and feedback, which informs the development of all new organizational practices and goals and the evaluation of all existing procedures.

826 Boston is dedicated to providing a platform for student advocacy through writing and publishing opportunities. In our work and mission, we are committed to dismantling white supremacy culture by recognizing that we are complicit in systems of racism and oppression. We will work to hold ourselves accountable in addressing these harmful structures and behaviors. To learn more about our DEI Action Plans across the organization, please click here.

About Us

826 Boston is part of a national network of youth writing centers, co-founded by the award-winning author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari, that were named in GOOD Magazine’s “30 Places We Want to Work.” Since opening in 2007, 826 Boston has delivered its free youth writing and tutoring programs to more than 29,000 students and has been recognized by The Boston Globe as one of the best places in the city to volunteer. 826 Boston’s youth writers have published their work in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and in numerous award-winning 826 Boston books, including A Place for Me in the World, which was hailed as a “triumph of middle school education” by The Boston Globe. In 2014, the 826 network garnered the American Literacy Prize from the Library of Congress for its pioneering work to eradicate illiteracy in the United States.