People Operations Manager

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
  
  

Requirements

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
  
  

Benefits

• 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