Senior Manager of
Human Resources
Position Description
About Horton’s Kids: Horton’s Kids is a community-based organization working to drive positive change in the lives of 600+ K-12 grade students and families living in two of the most under-resourced communities in Southeast Washington, DC – Wellington Park and Stanton Oaks. These communities are home to children and families with big dreams and the potential needed to achieve them. However, decades of disinvestment and systemic racism have created unfair barriers to access for these families. Horton’s Kids works to remove these barriers and even the playing field by providing comprehensive academic, social-emotional, health and wellness, and family engagement supports.
As an organization that exclusively serves Black people from low-income neighborhoods, we recognize that systemic oppression disproportionately impacts the most marginalized people in society, including BIPOC people, people with disabilities, people from low-wealth backgrounds, women, and LGBTQ+ people. We intentionally center these communities in our work and encourage people from these and other marginalized communities to apply for this position.
Position Description: We are looking for a full-time employee who has entry-level experience in human resources and/or organizational development. The ideal candidate will have worked as an HR Assistant or Generalist and/or have experience in payroll, employee benefits, performance evaluation systems, and staff development/team building.
The Senior Manager of Human Resources will play a crucial role in optimizing Horton’s Kids’ greatest asset—our staff—by providing viable support to help team members succeed in their roles. Staff retention is vital to Horton’s Kids’ success, so we strive to build a collaborative and inclusive culture that is also clear about individual accountability. This role includes data entry and working with confidential information, so accuracy and discretion is required. The highest level of integrity and professionalism is expected.
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Personnel Management
- Manage fair and equitable hiring practices (job descriptions, resume reviews, interview matrices)
- Compiling on-boarding materials and participating in orientations
- Onboarding and Orientation: background checks, Office 365 overview, ADP, Norms
- Assist Supervisors in facilitating the 30-60-90-day plan creation and 90-day review
- Facilitating DISC and Clifton Strengths assessment and overview
- Ensuring staff development goals are aligned with broader organizational goals
- Conducting Stay/retention interviews and exit interviews
- Lead performance management: annual reviews, mid-year goal check-ins, SMART goal setting
- Updating documents (i.e. employee handbook, staff documents)
- Background check tracking and compliance
- Ongoing planning, facilitating and/or outsourcing training for staff (full-time and part-time)
- Maintaining digital and physical files
- Collecting data and reporting out quarterly on Human Capital section of the Organizational Scorecard
- Maintaining HR dashboard and updating metrics annually
HRIS and Payroll System oversight
- Managing Payroll and paid time off (PTO)
- Analyzing and renewing annual benefits, with detailed understanding of HK’s benefit offerings
- Tracking benefits enrollment
- Inputting changes to titles and pay
- Overseeing all general administrative changes
Culture and Morale
- Ensuring birthday and anniversary celebrations
- Planning the annual staff meeting calendar and contribute to all-staff meeting agendas/presentations
- Serve as organization’s culture lead: build positive relationships, mediate conflict, implement retention strategies, team-building activities
- Working with Executive Leadership team to plan and facilitate Staff Retreat activities
- Leading the culture committee
Board Support
- Scheduling and setting up of Board meetings, including compiling information need for board packets
- Recording and preparing board meeting minutes
- Compiling the Board report annually
- Organizing data: surveys, mailings, etc.
- Collecting board contact information, listservs, annual compliance documentation
Requirements:
- Intermediate to advanced” MS Office skills, proficiency with Excel and/or Smartsheets a plus.
- Hands-on knowledge of HRIS and experience with payroll processing would be great to have, with knowledge of ADP TotalSource and EZ-Labor a plus.
- Advanced writing skills
- High attention to detail, accountability, and ownership
- Ability to manage multiple work streams simultaneously
- Capacity to take initiative and lead projects from beginning to end
- Ability to be a team player in a fast-paced environment
- Passion for social justice and equity for children
- Professional and discrete manor
- Comfortable following procedures and adhering to standard processes
Salary: $75,000 to $80,000
Benefits: Horton’s Kids offers a generous benefits package including vacation days, holiday breaks, personal time, parental leave, flexible hours and telework options, employer-matched retirement, mobile phone allowance, monthly wellness allowance, employer-paid health benefits, and more.
Application Instructions:
How to apply:
Interested applicants should submit a resume, cover letter, and salary expectations via the application smartsheet.
Any offers made to candidates will be contingent upon undergoing standard screening requirements including an FBI background check, DC background check, Child Protection Register check and TB test. Must be 18 or older to apply.
Horton’s Kids provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
