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Job Description
Full Time HR Assistant
This position provides support to the AVP for HR. This position also provides support related to all aspects of HR including performance management, training, benefits administration and is responsible for project management as assigned.
Responsibilities
Primary Duties:
Administrative Support • Function as the point person for the AVP of HR. Manage the AVP’s calendar, correspondence and meeting preparation. • Respond effectively to HR inquiries and calls to HR for various matters. • Draft presentations, mass communications and other HR materials • Manage HR files • Allocate purchasing card expenses and handle approvals as delegated
Project Coordinator • Provide project management for employee engagement activities and events • Oversee the Fred Pryor program • Coordinate HR employee verification process • Coordinate HR Office Suite, including supplies, copiers, and postings; Coordinate HR mail process • HR website management (includes HR, Payroll, Student Employment, Juneteenth)
Benefits Support • Provide support in producing necessary benefits administration reports • Respond to benefits inquiries and direct to appropriate parties • Benefits communications, including finalizing and communicating holiday schedule • Support 403(b) documentation process • Other duties as assigned
Performance Management and Training • Complete HR check-ins with new employees within first 3 months of hire. • Oversee 90-day review process. • Coordinate and oversee employee performance management process including training (Operations departments by individual anniversary date; all others in May, June, July). • Develop and execute and/or support employee training as needed
Maintain consistent and reliable attendance.
Secondary Duties: • Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education Required:
Bachelor's Degree
Education Preferred:
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field such as HR or a degree in Higher Education
Experience Required:
Work experience in human resources or higher education and effectively managing projects within a busy, professional office environment
Experience Preferred:
N/A
Skills, Characteristics Required for Position:
- Superior organizational skills
- Strong project management skills
- Expert proficiency in MS Office and the ability to learn Oracle and other new/in-house software quickly.
- Excellent written and oral presentation skills, with a keen understanding of both grammar and effective communication practices. Ability to write announcements, training materials and employee communications that are polished and professional is essential.
- Ability to present training materials in a clear concise manner
- Ability to effectively manage competing priorities and multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to work successfully as part of team as well as ability to take individual initiative to complete necessary tasks.
- Understanding of and practice of keeping necessary confidentiality and discretion required in Human Resources.
- Understanding of effective office management practices.
Special Working Conditions: This position may be called essential duty during some critical incidents.
About the Company
Messiah University’s commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence draws inspiration from its mission “to educate men and women toward maturity of intellect, character and Christian faith in preparation for lives of service, leadership and reconciliation in church and society.” The university has pursued this vision through a strategic planning process that encourages diversity through employee and student composition, campus climate, and an educational program that seeks to equip and enable educators and students to embrace diversity. Candidates should clearly articulate why diversity and inclusive excellence matter to them as persons of faith as well as in their profession. Candidates will speak to how as a potential employee, they will contribute to the advancement of this vision through their teaching-learning, research, institutional service, and public engagement.