Description
Senior Manager, HR Operations
Hillel International
Role Overview
At Hillel International, our People Operations team empowers exceptional professionals who shape Jewish student life on more than 850 campuses across North America. As the Senior Manager, HR Operations, you will play a critical role in supporting strategic HR initiatives, transforming workforce data into actionable insights, and driving operational excellence across the movement. Combining project management, analytics, systems expertise, and cross-functional collaboration, you will help inform strategic decisions that strengthen the employee experience and advance Hillel's mission.
In this highly visible role, you will partner closely with internal stakeholders and senior leaders to implement HR best practices, improve processes, and support key people operations initiatives across the Hillel movement. You'll support nearly 1,200 professionals across both the Hillel movement and the Schusterman International Center (SIC), Hillel International's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
This position is remote for eligible U.S.-based candidates, with a preference for candidates who can work hybrid (1-2 days/week) at our Washington, D.C. headquarters.
What You’ll Do
- Support and closely partner with Senior Human Resources Business Partners in multiple cross-functional HR projects, including employee engagement initiatives, compliance, annual performance management and compensation planning, and ad-hoc organizational initiatives.
- Create executive-level dashboards, reports, integrative data summaries and presentations for senior leadership, including the Senior Vice President of People Operations.
- Analyze HR, recruiting, engagement, and workforce data to identify trends, provide recommendations, and tell a compelling data-driven story.
- Own and maintain the Strategic HR project and communications tracker, ensuring all team initiatives and project plans are accurate, up to date, and functioning smoothly.
- Serve as project manager for multiple, overlapping initiatives, ensuring accountability and workflow efficiency and keeping the SVP of People Operations fully informed with high-level visibility.
- Improve HR systems and reporting tools, ensuring accurate data reconciliation, reporting, and process documentation.
- Own leaves of absence administration and operations, with an emphasis on parental leaves, while maintaining current knowledge of federal and state paid family and medical leave laws and best practices.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on FLSA, overtime compliance, time reporting, and audits.
- Coordinate professional development initiatives, employee requests and budget.
- Collaborate with Payroll and Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Finance, Tech Services and other internal stakeholders to support talent focused initiatives and tasks.
- Supervise the People Operations Coordinator, ensuring HR related data, dashboards, documentation, content and processes remain accurate and up to date.
What You've Accomplished
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 4-7 years of progressive experience in Human Resources, People/HR Operations, HR Analytics, Project Management, or a related field.
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience with HR systems such as Paycor or similar HRIS platforms and Greenhouse or similar ATS platforms
- Supervision experience preferred.
- SHRM-CP or PHR certification preferred.
What You’ll Bring to the Job
Proven success in:
- Leading complex HR or operational projects from planning through execution.
- Building dashboards and synthesizing large datasets into actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Developing executive presentations and communicating data in a clear, compelling manner.
- Improving operational processes through organization, automation, and continuous development.
- Managing competing priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
Additional Skills:
- Strong analytical, reporting, and critical thinking skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets and PowerPoint/Google Slides skills.
- Experience creating dashboards using HRIS, Power BI, Tableau, or similar reporting tools.
- Working knowledge of HR systems such as Paycor, Greenhouse, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of HR compliance, leave administration, FLSA, and employment best practices.
- Outstanding organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
- Passion for creating great workplaces and enabling people to thrive.
- Skills in facilitation and meeting design, both remote and in person.
- Excellent written, editorial, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in and comfort with training and coaching.
- Proven success with multitasking and working collaboratively as part of a team.
- Familiarity with the Jewish community and genuine respect for the diversity of Jewish life.
- Prior experience working within and supporting a distributed workforce.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office suite, Google for Work, video conferencing tools, and social media.
What You’ll Receive
- Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $70,000-$80,000
- A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability (LTD) insurance, Flexible Spending accounts, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave.
- Great professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities
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About Hillel International
In 1923, Rabbi Benjamin Frankel started Hillel with humble means, a noble mission and a breathtaking vision: to convey Jewish civilization to a new generation. Today, Hillel International continues to enrich the lives of Jewish students and is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across North America and around the world. As Hillel evolves as an organization, the mission remains steadfast: to create lasting connections with every Jewish student that foster an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel and train them to become the next Jewish leaders.
Hillel is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an accepting and inclusive environment for all.
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