Job Overview
Our client, a well-established not-for-profit organization is seeking a hands-on Human Resources Generalist to support the day-to-day HR and payroll functions of the organization.
Reporting to the Senior Director this role is responsible for providing practical HR support across a broad range of areas, including recruitment, onboarding, employee and labour relations, payroll administration, policy and compliance, health and safety, training coordination, employee records, and general HR administration.
This is a sole HR role and is well suited to an experienced, service-oriented HR professional who is comfortable working directly with managers, employees, volunteers, students, and other workers. The successful candidate will play an important role in supporting a respectful, inclusive, compliant, and well-organized workplace.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day HR support to managers, employees, volunteers, students, and other workers.
- Coordinate recruitment, onboarding, orientation, employee changes, leaves of absence, and offboarding processes.
- Administer payroll-related processes, including maintaining accurate employee/payroll information, processing changes, and liaising with internal and external contacts as required.
- Maintain employee records, HRIS/payroll data, personnel files, training records, and related documentation.
- Support employee and labour relations matters, including attendance, performance, workplace concerns, grievances, accommodations, and documentation.
- Assist with policy administration, legislative compliance, collective agreement requirements, and HR best practices.
- Support health and safety administration, including incident reporting, WSIB, return-to-work processes, training records, and Joint Health and Safety Committee support.
- Prepare HR correspondence, forms, reports, letters, and other employment-related documentation.
- Support workplace culture, communication, employee engagement, and respectful workplace initiatives.
This is an in-person role requiring full-time hours (37.5 hours per week), primarily during weekdays, with occasional evenings or weekends as required. The work is based in a private office within a fast-paced environment with multiple competing priorities. Regular interaction with employees (workers), volunteers, and stakeholders is required. The role may involve extended periods of sitting or standing.
The organization is committed to providing equal treatment with respect to employment according to the protected grounds established under the Ontario Human Rights Code. We will work to ensure that employees are provided with meaningful employment that is ethical and fair, and is in compliance with all applicable employment, and human rights legislation.
Pay: $70,000.00-$80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
Experience:
- Payroll Administration: 1 year (preferred)
- Progressive HR: 5 years (preferred)
- Health & Safety: 2 years (preferred)
- Unionized Labour/Employee relations: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
