HR Generalist

Job Title: Human Resources Generalist

Reports To: Human Resources Director

Department: Human Resources

FLSA Status: Exempt

Position Characteristics: 12 month

Founded in 2000, the Milwaukee Academy of Science (MAS) is a K4-12th grade independent charter school serving over 1,900 scholars. The mission of MAS is to graduate students prepared to compete successfully at the post-secondary level. African American students comprise 97% of the student body and over 95% of students qualify for free or reduced meals. Regardless of student background and external factors, MAS maintains the expectation that with the support of our school community all students can and will learn, and will graduate high school prepared for their post-secondary educational experience.

Accountability Objectives:

The Human Resources Generalist provides support to the MAS human resources operations. This position plays an important role in supporting the work of the talent and human resources department in attracting, hiring, and retaining MAS staff. This position will provide broad support with a variety of activities from talent outreach through day-to-day human resource management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Recruitment:

• Manages applicant verifications of employment, background, and reference checks.
• Pre-screens and interviews candidates for non licensed academic support and non-exempt staff positions to determine most qualified and promising candidates according to minimum and preferred qualifications.

Pre-Boarding, On-Boarding and Off-boarding:

• Coordinates the new employee hiring process: creating employee accounts and ensures compliance with all pre-boarding requirements.
• Initiates employee off-boarding activities: updates staff lists and required reports, tracks return of IT items and schedules exit interviews.

HRIS, Applicant Tracking, and Time/ Labor Systems:

• Performs administrative data entry across various systems and employee file maintenance.
• Conducts Paylocity reviews (HR, Payroll, Time Off Requests and UnPaid time off and supports in the facilitation of payroll related activities;
• Provides reports to employee benefits systems such as Unemployment, Disability benefits, Worker Compensation
• Manages employee access to HRIS and other HR software
• Coordinates employee updates to the HRIS system, processes self service requests, and timesheet auditing
• Processes verification of employment requests.

Benefits:

• Teaches and trains employees with basic interpretation of benefits and HR policies/procedures.
• Supports employee wellness functions including communications of emails and calendar invites for staff, planning wellness events on all campus sites, manages space, provider and