Grassroots Leadership seeks a Human Resource Practitioner for the organization. The position will be responsible for managing, developing and supporting employees within an organization. They handle all the issues, policies and processes related to people, assisting with the end-to-end recruitment process, training and developing employees and managing performance, compensation and benefits. This position reports directly to the Acting Executive Director.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Employee relations - develop policies and practices to ensure we are aligned with our mission, values, and theory of change

• Human resources information software (HRIS)

• Employee enrollment of insurance and healthcare benefit plans, training and compliance.

• Focus on managing and developing best practice tools for future needs to maintain a healthy work environment

• Managing HR infrastructures to support managers

• Supports Executive Director by establishing a recruiting candidate selection and interviewing, onboarding, training employees and conduct exit interviews

• Ensures planning, monitoring, unbiased hearing and resolving employee grievances; and conflict resolution with employees and/or supervisors

• Enforces management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures

• Retains historical human resource records by designing a filing and retrieval system and keeping past and current records

• Works with the managers in planning, monitoring and appraising job results through performance evaluations. Works with the managers in planning, monitoring, and appraising job results through performance evaluations

• Prepare reports for managers and Executive Director as needed

• Prepares independent consultant contracts

Experience, Knowledge, and skills required:

• Graduation from an accredited two-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in human resources or a related field is generally preferred. Experience and education may be substituted for one another.

• Technologically savvy with experience selecting and overseeing software installations and managing relationships with software vendors; knowledge of HR and administrative software

• Demonstrated strength in providing clear and efficient communications, ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written form, internally & externally

• Very detailed oriented

• Ability to work in a supervisory and/or independent capacity

• Ability to work effectively with diverse grassroots staff, allies and constituencies.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously; ability to plan, organize and control large amounts of work

• Ability to maintain the utmost confidentiality and ethical standards

• Ability to work under deadlines, multiple interruptions, high volume and stressful times.

Strong Applicants also have:

• Experience working with nonprofits

• Proven previous human resources function(s)

• Experience working with BIPOC staff and community

• Bilingual: Spanish/English

• Sense of humor

More about the job:

This part-time, salaried position will be located in our Austin, Texas, office, at 7910 Cameron Rd, Austin, TX 78754.

Salary will be starting at $56,000.00 per year. The successful candidate will be trained by the Executive Director.

About the organization:

Founded in 1980, Grassroots Leadership is a nationally recognized civil and human rights organization based in Austin, Texas working for a more just society where prison profiteering, mass incarceration, deportation, and criminalization are things of the past. We work to transform the justice and immigration systems through organizing, research, advocacy, and public education, building bridges between communities to increase the capacity of local leaders and coalitions, and mobilizing those most impacted by incarceration and deportation.

Grassroots Leadership is an equal opportunity employer and does not to discriminate in employing staff, or selection of volunteers, on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, justice involvement or conviction, veteran status, financial status or HIV status. Grassroots Leadership works affirmatively to build a staff and board that includes people of many different races, classes, genders, physical and mental abilities, ages and sexual orientations.

How to Apply:

Please send to HR@grassrootsleadership.org with “HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTITIONER” POSITION in subject line, in (.doc) or (.pdf) format:

• Letter of introduction

• Current resume/vitae

• Contact information and three professional references

Questions about the position should also be directed to the same email address.