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The Fund provides generous employee benefits, including:

  • Medical, prescription, and dental insurance for you, your spouse or domestic partner and dependents
  • A retirement plan with a generous employer matching contribution
  • Commuter benefit, flexible spending plans for health and dependents
  • Annual paid time off for holidays, vacation, and sick leave
  • Short and long-term disability and paid family leave

Fund for the City of New York

Job Type: Full Time
Experience Level: Mid-level
Salary: USD $72,000 – $82,000 / year

Job Overview: The HR Generalist will be responsible for a broad range of HR activities, with a particular emphasis on benefits administration, leave management, and ensuring compliance with employment laws. This position is ideal for someone with a comprehensive HR background and strong organizational skills.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Benefits Administration:`
    • Oversee and manage employee benefits programs, including health insurance, retirement plans, and other employee benefits.
    • Serve as the primary point of contact for employees regarding benefits inquiries, including coverage, eligibility, and enrollment processes.
    • Coordinate open enrollment periods, including preparing communication materials and assisting employees with their benefits choices.
    • Work with benefits vendors to address issues, update plan details, and process claims.
    • Maintain accurate records of benefits and ensure compliance with benefits regulations and company policies.
  2. Leave Administration:
    • Manage all types of employee leave, such as FMLA, short-term disability, long-term disability, and personal leave.
    • Ensure adherence to applicable leave laws and organizational policies.
    • Process leave requests, track leave balances, and maintain accurate leave records.
    • Communicate with employees regarding their leave status, required documentation, and return-to-work procedures.
    • Resolve any leave-related issues and provide support throughout the leave process.
  3. Employee Relations:
    • Provide guidance on HR policies and procedures to employees and management.
    • Address employee inquiries by email, phone, and in person.
    • Review and update HR policies and practices to ensure compliance with legal requirements and best practices.
  4. Additional Responsibilities:
    • Handle other HR-related duties and projects as assigned to support the HR function and organizational objectives including processing new hires, timesheet administrations, verifications of employment, processing employee actions, and other HR functions.
    • Collaborate with management to identify areas for process improvement and implement HR initiatives that enhance operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and support organizational goals.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in an HR Generalist role, focusing on benefits, leave administration, and compliance.
  • Strong knowledge of employee benefits programs, leave laws (e.g., FMLA, ADA), and HR compliance requirements.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
  • Highly proficient in HRIS systems and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively.
  • Experience in nonprofit organizations is a plus.

How to Apply:
Interested candidates should submit their resume and cover letter to resume@fcny.org. Please include “HR Generalist Application” in the subject line.

The Fund for the City of New York is an equal opportunity employer. The Fund does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law.

Benefits

Excellent benefits package including comprehensive health, dental and life insurance, four weeks paid vacation, paid sick time, TransitChek, Flexible Spending Account plans for health and dependent care, a 403(b) retirement plan and a 401(k) retirement plan with a generous employer match.

The Fund for the City of New York has a limited number of internships available for mission-driven individuals. Interns at the Fund learn from and help support the teams of communication, partner projects, human resources, fiscal and other special projects. The nature of the Fund’s projects is extremely fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to work collaboratively in a team environment. Project interns are provided the opportunity to interact with senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of project and financial management.

The Fund for the City of New York is an equal opportunity employer. The Fund does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law.

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Role Description

The Program Coordinator role is responsible for supporting the planning and execution of ELP’s program activities to ensure they align effectively with the ELP’s mission and the program’s goals. The Program Coordinator will work closely with the ELP program team, private sector sponsors, and our partner schools to implement effective and meaningful career-readiness programming for high school Scholars in the South Bronx. To this aim, the Program Coordinator will play a key role in working closely with our ELP Scholars that participate in our Core, Intern, and Fellows Programs to support their participation and enhance their professional and personal development. This role is essential to supporting technical and administrative projects across our programs; they will work with members of the program team to plan and implement curriculum, track student progress and data, coordinate tasks to launch and close out programs, and plan and support student events.

What you’ll do on the job:
Administrative:

●Create flyers, certificates, worksheets, and other collateral materials related to ELP Programs, Events, and Student needs
●Manage student permission slips for programs and events; coordinate student paperwork for other events as needed
●Own student completion letters and other paperwork delivery to school partners
●Manage food and snack orders for Programming; set up programming space and help manage technology and resources used
●Perform duties to maintain ELP’s new office space; oversight of office areas, ordering supplies, etc.
●Perform duties to maintain ELP’s new office space; oversight of office areas, ordering supplies,
etc.

Programmatic Support:

● Maintain data management systems (both qualitative and quantitative) around student
engagement and progress of program objectives; organize student data, ensure data
cleanliness, and collaborate with team on data systems
● Support the Managing Director of Program and Strategy and Program Manager to execute the
day to day tasks that keep our programs running
● Work with other program coordinators to prioritize and implement program related tasks
including student reminders, follow-ups, and occasionally chasing down students for specific
missing assignments and paperwork
● Co-plan and occasionally facilitate after school programming for scholars during after school
programming
● Maintain Google Classroom and end-of-week newsletter for students participating in Core
Program
● Serve as an ambassador for the program with various constituencies supporting the scholars
Direct Student Support:
● Support students in program onboarding including ensuring students have submitted and
completed intricate and details steps of application processes
● Manage student attendance, participation, and engagement in the program through direct
communication (email, text, virtual meetings) with program participants
● Build relationships with ELP scholars, and act as a trusted adult, exemplifying professional skills
Additional duties and responsibilities as needed, such as:
● Willingness to build meaningful relationships with school partners, corporate partners, and
volunteers; strong interpersonal skills
● Participating actively in team meetings and offering your creative ideas and thoughts; we are a
small and growing organization, and do our best to involve our whole staff in organizational
decisions
● Project management for streamlines that arise in each program, as assigned by Program Team
● Learning new systems pertaining to program, and training the ELP team as needed

Programmatic Support:

● Maintain data management systems (both qualitative and quantitative) around student engagement and progress of program objectives; organize student data, ensure data cleanliness, and collaborate with team on data systems
● Support the Managing Director of Program and Strategy and Program Manager to execute the day to day tasks that keep our programs running
● Work with other program coordinators to prioritize and implement program related tasks including student reminders, follow-ups, and occasionally chasing down students for specific missing assignments and paperwork
● Co-plan and occasionally facilitate after school programming for scholars during after school programming
● Maintain Google Classroom and end-of-week newsletter for students participating in Core Program
● Serve as an ambassador for the program with various constituencies supporting the scholars

Direct Student Support:

● Support students in program onboarding including ensuring students have submitted and completed intricate and details steps of application processes
● Manage student attendance, participation, and engagement in the program through direct communication (email, text, virtual meetings) with program participants
● Build relationships with ELP scholars, and act as a trusted adult, exemplifying professional skills

Additional duties and responsibilities as needed, such as:

● Willingness to build meaningful relationships with school partners, corporate partners, and volunteers; strong interpersonal skills
● Participating actively in team meetings and offering your creative ideas and thoughts; we are a small and growing organization, and do our best to involve our whole staff in organizational decisions
● Project management for streamlines that arise in each program, as assigned by Program Team
● Learning new systems pertaining to program, and training the ELP team as needed

Qualifications
● 1-3 years of experience in youth development, school-based work with direct contact with
students at the high school or college level, or project and program management experience in
the private sector
● Ability to collaborate with a range of stakeholders including program staff, school administration,
and private sector partners
● Experience in communicating effectively with high school youth using a variety of
communication channels
● Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask; ability to organize and prioritize
various tasks
● Self-starter, ability to take initiative in a small, agile organization; comfortability with some level
of unpredictability (we work with students, and every day brings something new)
● Strong attention to detail and execution skills; this role will involve some level of administrative
work
● Preferred: strong use of Google Suite, Adobe, LinkedIn, Canva, and Zoom. Experience using
Concur, Inova, or an interest in managing Social Media accounts and bonus!

Job Type
  • Full-Time

Job Schedule
  • Hybrid

Start Date

Immediate Opening

Salary Range

50,000-70,000

Job Post Link

https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit/159f1b9b8d014e5d8a54e2f916e52676-emerging-leaders-program-bx-bronx-county

Hiring Manager Name / Contact Info

Role Description

 

JMACforFamilies is hiring a Program Facilitator! Primary responsibilities will include managing and facilitating the H.E.A.L. Program (Heal, Educate, Advocate, Lead), advancing the JMACforFamilies organization’s policy advocacy work, and coordinating events and rallies. This role requires a Masters Degree in Social Work and will be a hybrid position with one to two days in person per week. For more information, please see the flyer. To apply, send your resume and cover letter to info@jmacforfamilies.org. Please send any questions about the position to info@jmacforfamilies.org

 

Hiring Manager Name / Contact Info
Joyce McMillan /  info@jmacforfamilies.org