At a glance
- Experience
- 1-3 years experience
- Location
- Chicago · United States
About the role
- The HR Coordinator serves as the operational backbone of the HR team, blending hands-on administrative support with frontline employee care.
- This role focuses on executing HR processes, coordinating onboarding and offboarding, maintaining compliance, and serving as a primary point of contact for team members.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day HR administrative processes, ensuring 100% accuracy and data integrity within the HRIS.
- Maintain digital employee records, compliance files, and HR documentation in alignment with federal, state, and local labor laws.
- Assist in generating routine HR metrics and data reports for leadership.
- Coordinate the end-to-end onboarding experience, including scheduling orientations and preparing new hire packages.
- Partner with IT and Operations to ensure new hires have necessary tools and system access on day one.
- Facilitate standard offboarding workflows, including exit interviews, equipment returns, and system terminations.
- Serve as the primary contact for employee inquiries regarding general policies, benefits, and standard HR procedures.
- Assist employees with basic benefits enrollment questions and escalate complex inquiries.
- Partner with the finance/payroll team to track and submit documentation for compensation changes, promotions, and leaves of absence.
- Identify bottlenecks in administrative tasks and suggest ways to streamline HR service delivery.
Requirements
- 1-3 years of dedicated HR administrative or coordinator experience.
- Proficiency with HRIS platforms and standard office productivity tools.
- Solid baseline understanding of US employment laws, I-9 compliance, and HR best practices.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a customer-service mindset.
- Proven ability to handle sensitive, confidential information with integrity and professionalism.
- Superior time-management skills and the ability to juggle multiple operational tasks.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience within a professional services or consulting environment.
Skills
- HRIS
- Rippling
- Workday
- BambooHR
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
