People Operations Manager

Greenbelt Alliance • Full-time • Remote (Oakland, California, United States) • 1w ago

About the Opportunity:

Do you enjoy working with team members to foster a vibrant, engaging, and effective work environment? Greenbelt Alliance is hiring a People Operations Manager to champion our values and ensure efficient operations. This role will be focused on maintaining our positive organizational culture, managing human resources, and overseeing day-to-day operations support to support the organization.

We are looking for someone who is eager to support the full employee lifecycle, including onboarding/offboarding and professional development, as well as office management, administration and organization-wide communications.

You’ll be a great People Operations Manager for Greenbelt Alliance if you:

Are excited to be a key communicator and relationship-builder with Greenbelt Alliance’s highly-skilled and motivated staff.
Enjoy proactively solving problems/addressing operational issues, including human resources, technology, property & office management.
Are an organized self-starter who has the ability to move forward multiple projects simultaneously.
Pride yourself on having great attention to detail and acute project management skills.
Value building work relationships and fostering a positive work environment.
Bring a passion for supporting organizational excellence in our mission to ensure the Bay Area is resilient to a changing climate.

Key Activities Will Include:

Oversee full employee lifecycle, including onboarding, retention, development and exit processes, working closely with the Deputy Director and a third party human resources Professional Employer Organization.
Serve as key point person for employee relations, including org-wide announcements, staff engagement, interpersonal dynamics, guidance and compliance with employment law, regulations and processes, ensuring that we have an equitable and inclusive office environment.
Coordinate staff professional development opportunities, including all-staff trainings that strengthen our organizational success and adhere to our organizational values.
Manage office environment, maintaining office and technology/equipment inventory, license renewals, as well as virtual office platforms, subscriptions and protocols for team effectiveness (i.e. Zoom, Slack, Drive, CODA, etc.).
Lead preparation of bi-weekly payroll, ensuring compliance with timesheets; reviewing monthly staff expenses and reimbursements, working closely with the Sr. Finance & Grants Manager.
Streamline processes and systems to improve efficiency and productivity in human resources, professional development and organizational operations.

Desired Qualifications:

NOTE: We do not expect any single candidate to have extensive expertise/experience in all of these areas, but will prioritize candidates with demonstrated success being a self-starter, critical thinker.

Experience in human resources, office management, operations, administration, team-building, and staff engagement.
Experience promoting positive staff relations and organizational culture.
Excellent organizational skills with attention to details, focusing on efficiency and effectiveness.
Willingness to continually improve processes and systems, and be a team player.
Exceptional communications skills and emotional intelligence, with self-awareness and acute preceptiveness.
Ability to strategize creatively and think critically, overcoming obstacles and offer sustainable solutions.
Self-starting work ethic, comfortable working both collaboratively and independently.
Familiarity and experience using any of the following software is a plus: Google Suite, Asana, Coda, Slack, Salesforce, Zoom, Quickbooks, BILL, Divvy, Classy, Insperity, Workable, TimeCamp.

100% Employer-Paid Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Vision Insurance policies. Life insurance policy also provided.
50% Employer-Paid Insurance policies for dependents.
Generous Paid Time-Off package, including Vacation Days, Sick Days, and Floating Holidays. As many as 14 paid holidays off, including Winter Break.
Professional development and training opportunities.