About the Role
The People & Culture Coordinator provides essential administrative, recruiting, onboarding and offboarding, employee-lifecycle, and program support to the People & Culture team. This role is designed as a developmental opportunity with potential career path into a People & Culture Generalist role.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate job postings and maintain recruiting records and trackers.
- Schedule interviews and manage candidate communications.
- Conduct initial phone screenings with candidates for assigned positions and share relevant feedback with hiring managers and the P&C team.
- Coordinate interviews and maintain regular communication with candidates and hiring managers throughout the recruiting process.
- Manage recruiting for assigned positions, including developing and posting job advertisements, sourcing and reviewing candidates, conducting initial interviews, and advancing qualified candidates through the selection process.
- Coordinate background checks, references, offer documentation, and other pre-employment activities.
- Support recruiting events, candidate sourcing, and talent-pipeline initiatives.
- Help ensure candidates receive a responsive and positive experience throughout the hiring process.
- Coordinate new-hire orientation and onboarding schedules, including schedules, communications, documentation, and follow-up with hiring managers and P&C colleagues.
- Track onboarding requirements and completion.
- Coordinate routine offboarding activities, documentation, checklists, and return-of-property processes.
- Support exit-feedback administration and recordkeeping.
- Serve as an accessible first point of contact for routine employee questions and direct more complex matters to the appropriate P&C team member.
- Maintain employee records, personnel files, HRIS information, forms, templates, trackers, calendars, and P&C documentation.
- Perform authorized HRIS transactions and support data accuracy.
- Prepare routine employment letters, verifications, reports, and employee communications.
- Support invoices, vendors, scheduling, and administrative workflows.
- Coordinate training and development programs, including scheduling, communications, materials, attendance, and follow-up.
- Support employee engagement, recognition, culture, DEIA, accessibility, and employee-experience initiatives.
- Assist with employee surveys, focus groups, listening activities, and related communications.
- Maintain participation data and program materials.
- Support career-development, mentoring, and other employee-development programs.
- Partner with appropriate P&C team members to support benefits, payroll, leave, retirement, and other employee-service processes.
- Help employees navigate routine questions and connect them with the appropriate subject-matter expert when needed.
- Support employee communications, enrollment materials, records, and documentation.
- Maintain strict confidentiality regarding employee information and P&C matters.
- Progressively develop capabilities that could position them for advancement into a People & Culture Generalist role.
- Manage increasingly complex recruiting searches and take greater responsibility for advising hiring managers throughout the recruitment process.
- Independently manage routine onboarding and offboarding processes.
- Respond to a broader range of routine P&C policy and process questions.
- Support managers on routine HR processes.
- Lead defined components of employee learning, engagement, career-development, and employee-experience programs.
- Support lower-complexity employee-relations matters with appropriate guidance.
- Participate in increasingly complex employee-lifecycle and P&C projects.
- Develop stronger working knowledge of HR policies, employment practices, and applicable laws.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
- At least 2 years of HR, recruiting, administrative, employee-services, or related experience preferred.
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Strong customer-service orientation and interest in supporting employees.
- Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and confidentiality.
- Comfort learning HR technology and maintaining accurate records and data.
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and creating a positive employee experience.
- Strong interest in developing a career in Human Resources/People & Culture.
Skills
- HRIS
- Recruiting
- Onboarding
- Offboarding
- Employee Lifecycle Management
- Program Support
- Administrative Support
- Communication
- Customer Service
- Confidentiality
- Data Management
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- Up to $30.77/hour
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 20 Vacation days
- 7 sick days
- 10 paid holidays
- 2 floating holidays
- Paid primary caregiver leave
- Paid secondary caregiver leave
- Supplemental short-term disability insurance
- Paid life insurance
- Winter Fridays
- Commuter benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Contribution in a 403(b) retirement plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Growth and Development career opportunities
- Discounted Citi Bike Membership
- Discounts with vendors on the High Line & around the Meatpacking neighborhood
- Free entrance to Whitney Museum
About the Company
- The High Line is both a nonprofit organization and a public park on the West Side of Manhattan.
- We’re devoted to reimagining public spaces to create connected, healthy neighborhoods and cities through our work with communities on and off the High Line.
- Built on a historic, elevated rail line, the High Line was always intended to be more than a park.
- You can walk through the gardens, view art, experience a performance, enjoy food or beverage, or connect with friends and neighbors while enjoying a unique perspective of New York City.
- Nearly 100% of our annual budget comes through donations.
- The High Line is owned by the City of New York, and we operate under a license agreement with NYC Parks.
Equal Opportunity
- The High Line is guided by a series of values through which we make decisions, including hiring.
- These values include proactively creating access points for all people, regardless of age, sex, color, creed, race, income, country of origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
- As part of our commitment to living up to these values and advancing equity within our organization and through our work, we are committed to an equitable hiring process.
- Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with a broad range of lived experiences.
- This description shall not be construed as a contract of any sort for a specific period of employment.
