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Job Summary

The HR Coordinator is an integral member of the Division of Continuing Education's (DCE) HR team, providing a wide range of HR support to DCE staff and managers across all levels and departments. This highly visible role reports to the DCE HR Manager and is the first point of contact for DCE Staff. In this role, the HR Coordinator handles onboarding and offboarding of staff, the processing, tracking, and reporting of HR data, and administrative HR support to DCE's summer school. This collaborative role will work with Payroll, Administration & Finance, Administrative IT, Office of the Dean, and the Summer School, and may also interact with Harvard's Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), Harvard's University IT (HUIT), the Office of Labor and Employee Relations (OLER) and the Benefits Office.

Position Description

The HR Coordinator processes all employee HR transactions for DCE by creating and submitting action changes for approval in HRIS systems such as PeopleSoft, Aurora, and MIDAS and will also need to stay current on HR policies including those which pertain to HUCTW, OLER, Contingent Workforce, Payroll, and Human Resources.

Key areas and responsibilities include:

Onboarding and Offboarding

• Responsible for the onboarding/offboarding process of all staff, temporary employees, and contractors. Collect required paperwork and process and provide outreach and troubleshoot any related issues with FAS HR, Talent Acquisition, Central, DCE Payroll, and FAS Payroll. Coordinate with hiring managers, Facilities, and Administrative IT to ensure all needs are met for onboarding and offboarding.

• Using Salesforce, JIRA, and Confluence, and coordinating with other internal departments, streamline and troubleshoot the onboarding and offboarding workflows for staff, temporary employees, and contractors.

Administrative and Reporting

• Responsible for all administrative and logistical tasks and a point of contact for receiving, managing, and responding to all human resources requests DCE-wide, little to no oversight. Triage with multiple stakeholders on priorities of certain request.

• Uses multiple HRIS to process a range of administrative actions from hiring staff and temporary employees, to job data changes, and terminations. Maintain staffing database and keep track of any term appointments or temporary employee end dates. Administrative responsibilities such as letter creation and distribution, personnel file management, org chart management.

• Create and maintain tracking reports and create reports from different databases. Assist in designing a system for updating and reporting progress.

• Update information on Confluence pages on HR-related topics to share with DCE staff

• Oversee the Above and Beyond program, a recognition program where employees can nominate one another. Also oversee the One Year Project, for managers to recognize those reaching one year anniversaries on new positions and promotions.

• Other duties as needed, such as backing up DCE Payroll or the HR Manager

Summer School CORI/SORI

• Meet and discuss with each summer program on timelines and expectations for upcoming summer school programs on a 6-month background screening process. Review all responsible adults working the summer school program and identify who needs to be background screened.

• Responsible for reporting and communicating regular updates to stakeholders (Program Managers, Payroll Department, FAS HR) throughout process. Will process iCORIs and send HireRight invitations.

Basic Qualifications

• General experience with HRIS systems

• Minimum of five years administrative/HR experience

• Experience in Microsoft Office

• Education beyond high school may count toward experience

Additional Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent work experience

• Project management, document control, and organizational skills

• Strong attention to detail, high level of accuracy is critical

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Familiarity with HRIS systems (e.g. Aurora, PeopleSoft, MIDAS, Qlikview, Position Request Portal, Harvard Sponsored Role)

• Experience in higher education or Human Resources environment

• Demonstrated ability to be flexible in executing tasks based on shifting priorities

• Ability to handle complex and confidential information with discretion

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Working Conditions

The health of our workplace is a priority for Harvard University. With that in mind we strongly encourage all employees to be up-to-date on DCD-recommended vaccines.

This position will be based in Cambridge, MA. DCE is currently trialing hybrid workplace models with a minimum of 2 days per week on campus. DCE may adjust these as necessary or appropriate.

Additional Information

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will not provide visa sponsorship for this position.

A cover letter is highly encouraged for consideration.

The Division of Continuing Education (DCE) comprises several entities serving about 30,000 students annually. The Harvard Extension School, the Harvard Summer School, the Harvard Professional Development Programs and the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement allow Harvard to serve the learning needs of students across their life. For more than a century, Harvard Extension School has made Harvard faculty and teaching accessible to a diverse community of local, national, and international students. Harvard Extension School enrolls approximately 17,000 students per year in approximately 46 graduate and undergraduate liberal arts and professional fields. More than 1,500 open enrollment courses are offered year-round with over 600 available online are offered at affordable prices to our communities across the world. Harvard Summer School offers approximately 450 courses on the Harvard Campus to 11,000 secondary school, college and adult learners and more than 30 international study abroad programs for up to 600 students each summer. The Division also includes the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement with approximately 550 active members and Harvard Professional Development Programs offering nearly 130 short noncredit programs to more than 3,000 participants annually.

All formal offers will be made by FAS Human Resources.

Harvard offers an outstanding benefits package including:
Time Off: 3 - 4 weeks paid vacation, paid holiday break, 12 paid sick days, 11.5 paid holidays, and 3 paid personal days per year; prorated for part-time employees
Medical/Dental/Vision: We offer a variety of excellent medical plans, dental & vision plans, all coverage begins as of your start date.
Retirement: University-funded retirement plan with full vesting after 3 years of service.
Tuition Assistance Program: Competitive tuition assistance program, $40 per class at the Harvard Extension School and discounted options through participating Harvard grad schools.
Transportation: Harvard offers a 50% discounted MBTA pass as well as additional options to assist employees in their daily commute.
Wellness options: Harvard offers programs and classes at little or no cost, including stress management, massages, nutrition, meditation and complimentary health services.
Harvard access to athletic facilities, libraries, campus events and many discounts throughout metro Boston.

Salary Grade: 055

Union: 99 - Non-Union, Confidential Non-Ex

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