Human Resource Generalist

About the role

The Human Resources Generalist provides comprehensive HR support with a primary emphasis on talent acquisition and secondary emphasis on leave of absence administration. This role manages the full-cycle recruitment process, partnering closely with hiring managers to ensure high-quality talent acquisition practices and an exceptional candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage full-cycle recruitment, including requisition intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer execution.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand workforce needs and develop accurate job descriptions and hiring strategies.
• Build and maintain strong pipelines using proactive sourcing, job boards, social platforms, networking, and community partnerships.
• Ensure compliant selection processes aligned with EEO, ADA, OFCCP (if applicable), and state and federal hiring regulations.
• Deliver a high-quality candidate experience through consistent communication and structured evaluations.
• Facilitate hiring manager training on interviewing techniques, bias mitigation, and lawful hiring practices.
• Career Fair Management: Coordinate the offer process, engaging Compensation and HR leadership to ensure equitable and competitive salary decisions.
• Support onboarding activities, including documentation, pre-employment screenings, and new hire setup.
• Track and analyze recruiting metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, quality of hire, diversity of pipeline) and recommend improvements.
• Administer leaves including FMLA, ADA/ADAAA, parental, military, personal, and other state/local programs.
• Manage all leave-related documentation, notices, certifications, and case tracking to ensure legal compliance.
• Conduct or support the interactive process for accommodations and maintain confidential, accurate documentation.
• Cookbook: Coordinate with Benefits and Payroll teams regarding pay, benefit continuation, and timekeeping during leave.
• Provide guidance to managers and employees regarding leave requirements, expectations, and return to work processes.
• Employment Law & Compliance: Apply strong knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws across recruitment, leaves, wage and hour, and employee relations.
• Support development, maintenance, and communication of HR policies, handbooks, and compliance updates.
• Maintain compliance reporting, audit documentation, personnel files, and regulatory postings.
• Monitor legislative changes and recommend updates to internal processes to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Generalist & HR Operations Support: Provide guidance to employees and leaders on policies, performance management, corrective action, and conflict resolution.
• Maintain HRIS accuracy, generate HR reports, and support annual HR cycles such as performance reviews and merit processes.
• Contribute to HR initiatives such as onboarding enhancements, engagement projects, Inclusion efforts, and process optimization.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills

• Skilled in sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selection using compliant and structured practices.
• Working knowledge of employment law across recruitment, leaves, wage & hour, and accommodations.
• Understanding of laws related to hiring, leaves, accommodations, EEO, FLSA, and confidentiality.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to draft clear notices, candidate communications, and HR documentation.
• Ability to establish strong partnerships with hiring managers, employees, and candidates.
• Competent in HRIS, ATS systems, and Microsoft Office/Excel; comfortable learning new systems.
• Ability to assess situations, apply legal and policy guidelines, and escalate appropriately.
• Demonstrated discretion in handling sensitive employee and company information.
• Delivers responsive, courteous, and solution-oriented support to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to identify workflow gaps and recommend enhancements to recruiting and HR processes.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3–5+ years of progressive HR experience with strong emphasis on full-cycle recruitment.
• Strong experience administering FMLA, ADA/ADAAA, or other leave processes.
• Experience in healthcare or technology preferred.
• Experience supporting multi-state workforces a plus.
• PHR/SPHR or SHRM-CP/SCP certification preferred.
• Proficiency with HRIS and ATS platforms; BambooHR, UKG or similar systems a plus.