About the Role
The People Operations Coordinator plays a central role in delivering a seamless and impactful employee experience across the employee lifecycle. This role is ideal for someone early in their career who is organized, detail-oriented, and eager to build a career in People Operations. You will help create consistent, scalable experiences that keep our People programs running smoothly.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate pre-onboarding activities for a high volume of new hires, ensuring a 1-business-day service level for People team communications.
- Process background checks, create employee profiles in the HRIS, and ensure that all required documentation is complete before each employee’s start date.
- Support onboarding, employee changes, leaves of absence, and offboarding by preparing documentation, updating systems, and coordinating required workflows.
- Prepare employment verification, travel verification, and other standard employee letters.
- Respond to routine employee inquiries and escalate more complex matters to the appropriate People team member.
- Maintain accurate employee records and complete HRIS updates throughout the employee lifecycle.
- Perform regular audits to ensure employee data is complete, accurate, and up to date.
- Maintain organized, accurate People team documentation in Google Drive, aligned with document retention standards.
- Support reporting and data requests by maintaining clean and reliable People data.
- Maintain People Operations templates, checklists, trackers, process documentation, and knowledge resources.
- Maintain the company holiday calendar and coordinate related employee communications and Slack automations.
- Coordinate employee wellness and engagement programs, including fitness challenges, communications, participation tracking, and rewards.
- Provide administrative and coordination support for People programs and annual processes, including performance reviews, engagement initiatives, policy acknowledgements, and compliance activities.
- Support continuous improvement efforts by documenting workflows, identifying recurring challenges, and providing feedback on opportunities to improve efficiency and employee experience.
- Provide administrative and coordination support for People Operations projects and initiatives.
- Work closely with the People Operations Specialist, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and IT to support the seamless execution of People processes.
- Build positive working relationships by providing responsive, reliable, and collaborative support.
Requirements
- 1+ years of professional experience, including internships or co-op placements.
- Experience in HR, operations, administration, or another detail-oriented environment is considered an asset.
- Exceptional attention to detail with a strong commitment to accuracy and quality.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- High level of integrity and discretion when handling confidential information.
- Proactive and resourceful, with a willingness to identify problems, explore solutions, and take ownership of work.
- Demonstrates good judgment, knows when to ask questions or seek support, and takes accountability for mistakes.
- Curious, receptive to feedback, and motivated to continuously learn and develop.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build positive working relationships across teams.
- Comfortable learning new technology and navigating multiple systems.
Skills
- AI tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini to research, problem solve, and improve efficiency
- Google Workspace
- HRIS platforms
Experience Level
- Early career
Education Level
- Postsecondary education in HR, Business, Psychology, or a related field is preferred.
Salary/Compensations
- $50,000 to $65,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and total rewards package
About the Company
- Viral Nation specializes in building social-first ecosystems for brands to connect with the modern consumer journey.
- Our integrated solutions align strategy, talent, media, and technology with culturally relevant creativity to scale the world’s fastest-growing digital brands.
- Viral Nation offers a fluid, creative, and growth-oriented environment that will support your ambitions in an open, collaborative, and fast-paced culture.
- Our ability to stay at the forefront of the industry has fuelled our success and will guide us in paving the path forward.
- We’re driven to push boundaries and think beyond today to deliver strategies, and we’re just getting started.
Equal Opportunity
- Viral Nation is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion in our agency.
- Viral Nation welcomes applications from people with visible and non-visible disabilities.
- Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruiting and selection process.
