Human Resource Generalist

Agate Housing and Services • Minneapolis, MN

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About The Position

Agate is seeking a hands-on HR professional to support recruitment, onboarding, employee experience, and the organization’s expanding programs. Recruitment and onboarding make up approximately 60–70% of the role initially. The first three months will focus on those areas; starting in January, the position will expand into broader HR Generalist responsibilities. The role supports Agate’s mission of helping adults and children experiencing homelessness find and maintain housing stability.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruitment, including job postings, application reviews, candidate screenings, interview scheduling, hiring documentation, and coordination with hiring managers.
• Prepare offer letters, develop onboarding materials, facilitate new-hire orientation, and help create a welcoming employee experience.
• Support staffing needs for new and expanding programs and represent Agate at job fairs and recruitment events.
• Develop training curriculum and teach classes in partnership with subject matter experts.
• Improve recruitment and onboarding processes and contribute ideas and support for HR initiatives and special projects.
• Maintain confidential employee records, personnel files, and HRIS data; process employee changes such as hires, promotions, transfers, leaves, and separations.
• Respond to employee questions; prepare employment verifications and HR correspondence; conduct periodic records audits; and support HR systems, reporting, and projects.
• Assist employees with benefit enrollment and questions, coordinate leave administration, maintain required documentation, and support payroll and benefits system changes.
• Support employee engagement, retention, inclusive workplace initiatives, labor-management relationships, and administration of collective bargaining agreements.
• Coordinate workers’ compensation documentation, claims follow-up, and communications with employees, supervisors, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators.
• Lead safety committee meetings, develop agendas, and help implement workplace safety initiatives.
• Support compliance with federal, state, and local employment requirements, including I-9 documentation; prepare records and reports for audits, regulatory agencies, and internal stakeholders; and help communicate and implement HR policies and procedures.

Benefits

• 20 days of PTO per year for full-time employees, increasing with tenure, plus floating holidays; PTO is prorated for part-time employees, and on-call employees earn sick and safe time.
• New employees receive 24 hours of PTO at the start of employment and begin accruing additional PTO once they hit 24 hours of accrual.
• Paid holidays, including New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day, plus additional floating holidays.
• Full-time employees receive up to 88 hours of holiday pay annually; amounts are prorated for part-time employees and employees who start during the year.
• Health insurance through Medica, with traditional and high-deductible plans across several networks.
• Agate pays 100% of dental and life insurance premiums.
• Agate contributes 1.5% of each employee’s salary to their retirement account, even if the employee does not contribute.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed