[Remote] People & Talent Generalist (1099 - Mat Leave Cover)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Archer Review is a private equity-backed education technology company focused on supporting medical and nursing students. They are seeking a fully remote People & Talent Generalist for a maternity leave coverage role to manage day-to-day operations, onboarding, and employee support, ensuring a positive experience throughout the people lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead employee and contractor onboarding and offboarding from start to finish, including checklist management, documentation, approvals, communications, and coordination across internal stakeholders
• Partner with IT to ensure laptops, accounts, permissions, and core systems access are set up and removed accurately and on time
• Work with hiring managers to coordinate first-day and first-week activities, ensuring each new team member has a thoughtful, organized start and knows where to go for support
• Work with our vendor to ship swag to new employees during their first week
• Serve as a responsive and helpful guide for employees and contractors during key lifecycle moments, answering questions, following up quickly, and creating a positive experience
• Own the monthly employee newsletter, town hall coordination, company calendar invitations, and other recurring people communications that help information flow transparently across the company
• Highlight wins, milestones, and moments of appreciation in ways that strengthen connection and visibility for a distributed team
• Lead and support recurring people operations processes such as payroll & 401(k) administration support, benefits enrollment, PTO tracking, time tracking, and related documentation
• Maintain organized records, track deadlines, and help ensure people processes are completed accurately, consistently, and in line with internal requirements
• Support the People Operations team and hiring managers with recruitment activities such as drafting job postings, screening applications, scheduling and organizing interviews, and keeping candidates moving through the process
• Collaborate effectively with managers and team leads to troubleshoot issues, close operational gaps, and keep people-related workstreams running smoothly during the leave coverage period
• Pitch in on the wide range of work that naturally comes with a People & Talent function, including documentation updates, reporting, process improvements, ad hoc employee requests, and special projects as needed

Skills

• Demonstrable experience as an HR generalist, coordinator, or equivalent position
• Strong attention to detail and an ability to manage multiple recurring processes, deadlines, and handoffs without losing accuracy
• Clear, thoughtful written and verbal communication skills, with the judgment to handle employee-facing communication professionally and warmly
• A passion for creating an exceptional experience for our employees, contractors, candidates and partners
• Comfort working across distributed teams, coordinating asynchronously when needed, and keeping people informed without creating confusion or delays
• Able to step into a time-bound contract role, ramp quickly, and operate with a high degree of ownership from April through August
• Experience in a fully remote, small-medium sized business
• Experience with Rippling, Monday and Slack as our primary tools in the People Ops team

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