People Operations Administrator

CEDA is an organization where your role is rewarding and fulfilling, a place where you will make a difference in people’s lives, and where your work matters.  At CEDA of Cook County, Inc., our mission is to provide lifesaving resources for individuals in poverty across our community, and all Team Members play a valuable role in helping us achieve this important mission.

CEDA is looking to hire a People Operations Administrator, an important player on the People Ops team. This role needs a detail-oriented HR professional with a passion for helping people navigate complex processes. To be successful in this role, you should have skills and experience in, but not limited to, the following:

What You’ll Do

• Keep People Ops running smoothly by managing key processes with strong organization, accuracy, and follow-through.
• Use ADP Workforce Now to maintain employee data, run reports, troubleshoot issues, clean up workflows, and help improve how our systems work.
• Create a strong new hire experience by coordinating onboarding from offer acceptance through the first 90 days, including orientation, paperwork, checklists, cross-team communication, and feedback data.
• Own I-9 and E-Verify processes, including case creation, follow-up, recordkeeping, and compliance audits.
• Maintain clean, accurate, and confidential employee records across the employee life cycle.
• Turn People Ops data into useful insights by supporting reports on headcount, turnover, onboarding completion, engagement, new hire feedback, exit interviews, and stay interviews.
• Support compliance-related work with care and consistency, including audits, personnel records, leave documentation, workers’ compensation files, and confidentiality practices.
• Help organize employee feedback and people metrics into clear summaries, dashboards, and trends that support better decision-making.
• Provide responsive, professional support to employees, managers, vendors, new hires, and the People Ops team.

What You’ll Bring

• Hands-on experience with ADP or a comparable HRIS, including employee data, reporting, troubleshooting, and system clean-up.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working with records, reports, spreadsheets, checklists, and audits.
• Experience coordinating onboarding, orientation, paperwork, and follow-up with managers and cross-functional partners.
• Working knowledge of I-9, E-Verify, personnel file management, confidentiality, and HR compliance practices.
• A service-minded communication style, with the ability to stay organized, follow up, and keep work moving without constant reminders.

At CEDA you are a valued teammate. All CEDA employee’s work together to live our mission and build careers with a team that shares our values: Adaptability, Customer Service, Collaboration, Innovation, and Integrity.

CEDA will take care of you by providing competitive pay and great benefits. Benefits include health/dental/vision, retirement plans, paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, career development, potential Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility, pet insurance, and so much more.

If you have the right amount of direct related experience and a BIG heart, we hope you apply today! Experience with nonprofits or similar social service agency environments is a plus. This is a hybrid position with the expectation of being on site at least 2 days per week, occasionally more as necessary for business needs.

CEDA is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. CEDA is a drug free workplace.