HR Associate, Culture and Talent (Chicago, IL) job in Chicago

HR Associate, Culture and Talent (Chicago, IL)

You are mission driven and action oriented. You love to get involved, and work as part of a team to accomplish something great. Any job is your job if it helps the team succeed, and you thrive on variety.
Today, you’re looking for a role where you can use those traits to make a real difference in the world. A place where you can work with like-minded people to advance the most important social issues facing humanity today. Issues like food security, the social and economic advancement of women and girls, and the conservation of our climate and planet.
If that sounds like you, we’re Arabella Advisors, and we can’t wait to meet you.
Our hardworking Culture and Talent team needs superstar to support our team. This new addition to our team will provide top notch support to both the team and our staff. If you enjoy the world of human resources and a fast-paced environment, this is the job for you!

Essential Responsibilities
• Support with compliance reporting
• Assist with file room management
• Data entry/Payroll backup, send out reminders
• Support in management of HR Inbox
• Support employment/wage verifications
• Support new hire/onboarding activities, send out new hire packets
• Scheduling exit interviews, send out termination e-mails
• Support reporting requests, anniversary/birthdays
• Support culture activities, buddy program
• Manage learning/training calendar
• Lead full-cycle recruiting processes for junior-level positions
• Support recruiting team with other recruiting related activities

To be successful in this role you’ll need:
• At least one year of human resource experience
• Strong computer skills
• Comfort with the Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong communication skills
• A strong customer service orientatio

Our Core Competencies:
• [Service Excellence] The ability to provide excellent, reliable service, including the ability to effectively recognize and elevate potential challenges, gather the information necessary to create and carry out solutions, and support those solutions with clear communications and thorough follow up.
• [Project and Task Management] The ability to manage time, resources, and priorities to complete tasks on time with high-quality results
• [Stakeholder Management] The ability to be a positive and professional liaison for stakeholders such as clients, team members, and senior leaders, including understanding how the role relates to those stakeholders and how to gather information and resources from them in order to achieve certain goals
• [Communication] The ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally to various audiences over various mediums.
• [Collaboration] The ability to effectively collaborate, including a willingness to go above and beyond to help the team achieve goals, solicit others’ perspectives, share knowledge, and participate in activities that support diversity and inclusion
• [Continuous Learning] A demonstrated eagerness to learn and take on new challenges, including an openness to direction and feedback and a willingness to ask questions
• [Resourcefulness] The ability to take ownership and be creative and solutions-oriented when encountering challenges that don’t have obvious answers, and to be resilient when things become difficult

About Arabella Advisors

Arabella Advisors helps foundations, philanthropists and investors who are serious about impact achieve the greatest good with their resources. We help our clients imagine what’s possible, design the best strategies, learn what works best, and do the work necessary to realize their visions.

Our staff is a team of passionate problem-solvers—mission-driven and action-oriented—with a unique combination of experience in philanthropy, business, nonprofits, government, finance, law, and other fields. We combine creative, strategic thinking with knowledge and networks developed through decades of hands-on experience.

The fastest-growing philanthropic advisory firm in the nation, Arabella is also a certified B Corporation. Our leadership team, advisors, colleagues, and staff are fundamentally concerned with social change. We share a desire to make a difference and apply an outcomes-focused approach. Our internal culture supports employee passions, enables continuous learning, and fosters innovation, risk taking, and fun—even as it emphasizes excellence.

Working with Us

We are committed to having a passion-driven, inclusive, fun, transparent, collaborative, and healthy culture. We invite you to visit our careers website to learn more about our people, culture, and work.

To encourage work/life balance we offer flexible work options, like this opportunity to work part time! Our office is an open space with cubicles and standing desks and informal work areas.

We offer a health package that includes medical, vision, dental, and prescription insurance. We have a fitness benefit and cover part of your personal cell phone plan. We even offer limited vacation and personal days in this part-time role.

How to apply

Send a resume and a one-page cover letter addressing why you’re excited to work at Arabella and why you’re qualified for this specific job.

We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified people to apply. If we can make this easier through accommodation in the recruitment process, please let us know.

While Arabella is open to individuals from various locations applying to join our team, please note that we generally are unable to pay for relocation expenses.

We will review applications as they are received and look forward to hearing from you.