Human Resources Associate & Executive Assistant I

Human Kinetics•Champaign, IL

24d•$45,000 - $57,500•Onsite

About The Position

The Human Resources Associate & Executive Assistant I provides essential administrative and operational support to the CEO, CFOO, and Human Resources team, playing a vital role in both day-to-day functions and larger organizational initiatives. This position assists the HR Manager with various aspects of the recruitment and hiring process, including resume screening, interview scheduling, pre-employment testing, onboarding coordination, and background checks. Additionally, the Human Resources Associate & Executive Assistant I maintains employee data within the HRIS system, ensuring accuracy and consistency, and is responsible for maintaining up-to-date HR files and documentation. CEO & CFOO support includes managing special projects, resolving customer service and related issues, scheduling meetings, efficiently handling correspondence, filing, data entry, and other office support functions as requested. In addition, the Human Resources Associate & Executive Assistant I acts as a liaison between customers, authors, the press, and others wishing to contact the CEO. This role also contributes to company culture and employee engagement by organizing events such as anniversary and retirement celebrations, bi-monthly blood drives, and annual campaigns like the United Way Fund Drive. The Human Resources Associate & Executive Assistant I helps plan company-wide events, coordinates internal communications through various channels, manages staff badge access, and supports ongoing projects and HR initiatives. With a strong focus on organization, communication, and attention to detail, this role helps ensure smooth Admin & HR operations and a positive employee experience.

Requirements

High School Diploma or Equivalent required, Associate or Bachelor's degree in HR or related field preferred.
1+ years of experience in administrative or HR support required, 3+ years of experience preferred.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint), familiarity with HRIS systems, strong data entry skills required.
High level of confidentiality, professionalism, excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, ability to multi-task, work under pressure, meet deadlines effectively, and excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
Computer literacy
Customer Focus
Initiative
Organizational awareness
Planning
Sociability and networking
Time Management
Integrity
Resourcefulness
Effort
Respect
Teamwork
Stewardship

Responsibilities

Provides administrative support to the Administration and HR Groups.
Assists the HR Manager with the following recruiting tasks: Resume review, pre-screen calls, scheduling interviews, & administering any on-site pre-employment testing.
Assists the HR Manager with the following hiring tasks: Welcome package materials, scheduling new employee meetings, background/reference checks, facility tours, and other tasks.
Maintains knowledge about the functions of HK’s HRIS system and use it to manage and report on employee data, ensuring clean data.
Sends new hire surveys.
Assists with the annual Open Enrollment process.
Organizes and conducts annual United Way Fund Drive with the assistance of the Payroll Administrative Specialist.
Maintains accurate and up-to-date human resource files, records, and documentation.
Organizes and implements company-wide events such as the Annual Flu Shot Clinic, Kenyon Road Clean-up, and the bi-monthly blood drive through Community Blood Services of Illinois. etc.
Ensures continuous HR communication with staff through Teams, InfoK, and email to provide information pertaining to upcoming HK and local events, notifications, and other HR items.
Oversees creating new badges, providing replacement/ guest badges, and deactivating badges for staff.
Acts as a contact person for general inquiries and maintains working knowledge of Administration department functions sufficient to respond to inquiries, or to direct inquiries to the appropriate location.
Manages the Read Free program and the employee free books program.
Approves CEO’s PTO requests and processes PTO requests from their direct reports. Adds out of the office dates to both CEO and InfoK calendars.
Maintains and updates the Administration calendar to include holidays (such as summer Fridays), as well as Admin/HR team birthdays and scheduled out-of-office dates.
Updates Fire Emergency List with staff changes; prints and distributes to clipboards, CFOO, and Facilities Director. Refresh clipboards when new phone lists are released.
Prints new hire welcome letters for CEO’s signature and pulls together welcome package materials.
Opens/closes Administration office as needed.
Coordinates signing and sending of get-well/sympathy cards. Maintain card stock.
Schedules new employee luncheons when 3–4 new hires have started.
Retrieves CEO’s mail, organizes tray, and files books/financials.
Files one copy of new printed titles in the warehouse.
As requested, attends webinars, seminars, and conferences to stay current on relevant HR-related topics.
Monitors and restocks Administration printer room supplies; ensures printer is loaded with paper.
Schedules and sends invites for Strategic Management and All Staff meetings.
Creates All Staff meeting slides. Reads staff questions during meeting and posts recordings to InfoK.
Schedules check-ins for CEO with direct reports.
Compiles and sends HK Board documents.
Schedules HK Fall/Spring meetings, including reserving conference room and creating tech report request.
Processes invoices at the start of each month
Shares Management Meeting Notes document with team post-meeting to provide their updates, format, and upload to InfoK
Runs birthday/anniversary report and update CEO's calendar.
Plans 20-year milestone anniversary and retirement celebrations.
Prepares milestone cards for CEO to sign and oversees check requests for all milestoness. Updates MMCC wall photos, posts staff milestone/retirement questionnaires, and posts milestone celebration/retirement pictures to InfoK
Saves 401k charts to the network and uploads the charts to InfoK's 401k Committee section.
Runs PTO report and completes CEO's payroll cover sheet.
Reviews CEO calendar weekly; emails CEO updates related to meeting conflicts, staff OOTO, birthdays/anniversaries, and other updates.
Checks Employee Free Books file Fridays after 1pm; requests books as needed
Checks HR folder in Outlook and responds to inquiries.
Schedules new employee luncheons.
Sends out anniversary emails to staff.
Assists with special projects as needed.