Human Resources Generalist
StudentUniverse, the world's leading travel booking engine for students and young adults is seeking a Human Resources Generalist to be based in Waltham, MA. The HR Generalist will work with StudentUniverse leaders to ensure human resource efforts and outcomes are fully aligned with business needs, supports the strategic plan and company mission, vision and core values. This role focuses on working with StudentUniverse employees to promote a culture of positive employee relations and employee engagement.
Responsibilities:
- Build trusting relationships throughout StudentUniverse
- Provide excellent service to all employees, maintaining a positive attitude, timely follow through, and focusing on result
- Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues. Conducts effective thorough and objective investigations
- Optimize and execute work process in a broad range of areas in human resources, including payroll and benefits, supporting learning and development efforts, compensation and investigations
- Ensure standards for all HR related processes are executed to maximize efficiency
- Ensure compliance with all government and company HR policies and procedures
- Onboard employees into Paylocity
- Conduct employee onboarding
- Demonstrate ethics and integrity through self-accountability, compliance in all areas of Human Resource functionality, and sound policy application
- Maintains in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance and coaches managers in the application of this knowledge
- Assist and advise on recruitment/staffing needs
Skills & Requirements:
- Positive and energetic
- Outstanding interpersonal skills
- Even keeled, willing attitude
- Customer service orientation
- Solution oriented mentality
- Accountable
- Flexible and can collaborate effectively with other members of the HR team
- Strong sense of team mentality, reliability, and can also work well independently
- Conflict resolution
- Ability to support employee development
- Leads by example to show that safety is the most important function, ensuring that all employees follow safe practices while working.
- Accountable to continually reinforce safe behaviors and correct “at risk” behaviors
- Bachelor's Degree with an emphasis in HR (PHR or other HR Certifications are preferred)
- 5+ years’ experience providing HR support
- Experience with: recruiting, training, employee relations & investigations, HR reporting
- Experience working with Paylocity
- Benefits experience is a plus
- Familiarity with FMLA
- Public Relations knowledge is a plus
About StudentUniverse
StudentUniverse empowers young adults to experience the world with discount travel. For students and those under 26, our cheap flights, hotels and tours make it affordable to travel anywhere you want to go. Although we specialize in student and youth discounts, most of our promo codes apply for all ages.
StudentUniverse launched in 2000 and is headquartered in Boston with offices in London, New York and the Philippines. StudentUniverse believes that travel is essential to a modern education. Millions of students use our service every year.
Company Benefits:
- Discounted travel benefits, which include IATA’s travel benefits
- National and international awards nights, buzz nights, conferences
- Free and confidential access to our own in-house financial advisors
- Unbeatable company culture
- Health Benefits, including Medical, Vision and Dental
- Company matching 401k, and stock options