Senior Human Resources Generalist

Join Our Mission-Driven Team!

Do you have a strong desire to forge lasting relationships that support a mission using best practices in human resources? Are you looking for an opportunity to grow your career while making a meaningful impact? St. James School is an innovative, faith-based school and community organization where your expertise in HR will directly support our mission of providing high-quality education and a supportive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

As we continue to expand, St. James expects to see a 5 to 10% growth in programming and staff hiring over the next 3 to 5 years. This role offers significant opportunities for professional development and leadership within a growing organization committed to excellence in education and community impact.About St. James School:

St. James is a faith-based educational community deeply rooted in transformative loving relationships.

The School serves students and families who are most in need, providing a full scholarship to every student. Students benefit from small class sizes, an extended day, robust music programs, extensive social-emotional support, and 11-month school year (Sept. - July).

The Graduate Support Program is a lifelong commitment to every child.  It prepares students for future success and supports them along the way – through high school, college, careers, and beyond.

The Welcome Table designs community actions and creates spaces for members of the school and broader community to access essential needs and experience a community of sharing.

The Church of St. James the Less seeks to be a place to encounter God, build community and grow personally with weekly mass and worship services.

Commitment to Anti-Racism Education:

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:17-18)

St. James School is committed to partnering with others to dismantle systemic racism and to build an antiracist multicultural diversity within our school community and beyond. Through teaching a more complete and unbiased history, St. James School will arm students, graduates and employees with the tools and knowledge to better engage in complex issues like systemic racism and privilege and to hopefully solve them rather than contribute to them.

Position Description:

Managing human resources services including recruitment, onboarding, benefits administration, compliance, and employee relations. In this fast-paced environment, this hands-on role is responsible for, but not limited to: recruitment, employee relations, benefits, payroll, and performance management.  They support all staff and:

• Acts as a liaison between employees and insurance carriers,
• Ensures adherence to organization policies and practices,
• Maintains and analyzes data,
• Manages performance management cycles,
• Manages employee engagement data cycles
• Streamlines existing HR processes, and
• Manages employee files and databases, ensuring that all HR operations run smoothly.
• Collaborating with senior leadership to formulate, interpret and implement HR strategies that support organizational growth and employee well-being

Responsibilities:

• Manages payroll process in partnership with Director of Finance
• Serve as primary liaison and administrator for health and life insurance providers and manage yearly open enrollment period
• Formulate hiring strategies by leading efforts to promote St. James as a great place to work, engaging in proactive hiring strategies, networking, and outreach.
• Manage unemployment, FMLA, workers’ compensation and benefits claims
• Manage employee off-boarding and on-boarding
• Manage employee personnel files for compliance
• Manage Employee Handbook yearly revisions and formulation of new policies
• Manage employee compensation
• Lead Human Resources Advisory Committee
• Complete and file yearly Affordable Cares Act tax forms
• Manage our performance management and employee engagement software platform
• Organize all aspects performance review cycles and continually monitor progress for both managers and employees
• Organize all aspects of employee engagement survey and data collection cycles and reporting
• Respond and resolve all employee emails, questions, needs by interpreting and implementing St. James employment policies
• Compose and share Human Resources Digests with all staff

Additional Duties

• Required participation in common life at St. James School (e.g., lunch, Mass, House Meetings, etc.)
• Additional duties as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements:

• bachelor's degree in Human Resources or a related field
• 5+ years experience working in Human Resources preferred field
• strong communication skills
• knowledge of city state and federal employment laws and regulations
• proficiency in Google Workspace and Microsoft Office
• experience with HRIS platforms
• excellent communication skills
• organizational abilities
• ability to handle employee relations effectively and with high regard for confidentiality
• education experience is a plus

Employee Benefits:

• James School offers competitive salaries that are based on experience and qualifications
• Medical/Prescription/Dental/Eye Care Insurance Coverage through a group health maintenance organization (HMO) health insurance plan (PAISBOA HBT); St. James covers 95% of premium, with employee covering remaining 5%
• Defined Contribution Plan through The Church Pension Fund; St. James contributes a minimum of 5% of annual salary and potentially as much as 9%, based on level of employee contribution
• Life Insurance through The Church Life Insurance Corporation valued at 2Xs employees annual salary; James covers 100% of premium
• Fertility & Family-Forming Support Benefit through Maven
• Mental Health Supports through PAISBOA HBT
• Available Professional Development and Continuing Education funds
• Available Interest-Free Hardship Loans (after one year of service)
• Available Tuition expense coverage, for qualifying courses of study (with dollar limits and after one year of service)
• Health & Wellness paid time off
• Wellness Benefit covers expenses for gym membership (Kroc Center, Philadelphia or Planet Fitness)
• Spiritual and Religious resources (e.g. spiritual direction, theological study, school and community masses, community building)
• Free Lunch Benefit available daily as part of the School’s school-wide community lunch program

Equal Opportunity Employer:

St. James School is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. St. James School seeks to have the best available person in every job. St. James School policy prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, marital status, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, medical condition, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment. All unlawful discrimination is expressly prohibited.