• Ensuring Head Start standards and regulations are implemented consistently • Responsible for center recruitment, orientation, training, and performance management • Collaborate with other departments for staffing support

• Serve as the primary point of contact for employee and manager HR inquiries, ensuring timely, accurate resolution and follow-up • Manage full-cycle recruitment including sourcing strategy development, candidate sourcing, resume review, and selection aligned to role requirements • Source candidates using job boards, networking, and social media to build and maintain a qualified talent pipeline • Conduct phone screens to assess candidate qualifications and fit • Create, format, and post job requisitions across multiple job boards and platforms • Maintain regular communication and intake updates for active and upcoming requisitions • Ensure a positive candidate experience through consistent and professional communication throughout the hiring process • Support onboarding and offboarding processes to ensure a seamless employee experience • Facilitate new hire onboarding and ensure completion of required documentation and processes • Support payroll activities by reviewing and validating employee data, including time off, holidays, and employment changes • Partner with payroll to ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll • Administer and track employee leaves of absence, including FMLA, short-term disability, parental leave, and other applicable programs • Manage HR ticketing systems (e.g., Jira), ensuring accurate documentation, tracking, and resolution • Provide guidance to employees and managers on company policies, procedures, and employee relations matters • Assist with employee relations matters, including documentation, investigations, and follow-up actions as needed • Maintain accurate and confidential employee records across HR systems (e.g., Paylocity, Zoho) • Partner with HR leadership to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and internal policies • Assist with audits, reporting, and HR projects as assigned • Support benefits administration projects in partnership with the Benefits Manager • Contribute as a member of the HR team to support departmental goals and initiatives

• Manage overall Human Resources (HR) strategies, systems, tactics, and procedures • Oversee recruitment activities including screening, interviewing, and onboarding new employees • Collaborate with department managers to define role requirements • Present job offers to successful candidates, detailing position terms, remuneration, and benefits • Explore new platforms, tools, and strategies to enhance recruitment processes • Organize team gatherings to foster engagement and strong company culture

• Manages UKG time and attendance, leave management areas within HRTS, with an emphasis on the technical components of business needs. • Identifies strategies, risks, and options when gaps are identified, recommends approaches and mitigations to meet business requirements while staying consistent with native architecture. • Mentors, guides, and actively shares knowledge across all team members to enhance in-house expertise. • Works with HRTS Director to lead strategic and tactical planning, and build strategic roadmap • Proposes enhancements and integrations with other digitalization technologies and platforms as needed to meet HR functional strategies. • Advises functional departments on best practices for Workday business process (BP) and system updates, and other configuration changes. • Ensures data integrity, system security, and testing of system changes. • Leads team in research of new technologies and system solutions and presents recommendation to leadership • Manages full life cycle HRTS projects and the associated project planning • Ensure alignment with Employee Services support functions and business processes.