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Join American Student Assistance™ as an HR Business Partner to support organizational strategy, talent management, and diversity initiatives within a national nonprofit focused on career readiness for students.

Responsibilities: Drive talent management initiatives, collaborate on total rewards processes, manage employee relations, and support client groups through the employee lifecycle.

Skills: 8+ years HR experience, knowledge of total rewards, employee relations skills, and excellent communication abilities are essential.

Qualifications: Experience in education technology or non-profit preferred, along with deep knowledge of HR best practices and strategic planning.

Location: This position is based in Boston, Massachusetts with a hybrid schedule (2 days in-office per week).

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $90,000 - $130,000.

THE ROLE: HR Business Partner

American Student Assistance™ (ASA) is national nonprofit that is changing the way kids learn about careers and prepare for their futures through access to career-readiness information and experiences.

ASA fulfills its mission through free digital-first direct experiences, philanthropy, advocacy, thought leadership, groundbreaking research, and impact investing. We believe that exploring career possibilities, as early as middle school, and providing access to education-to-career pathways aligned with one’s passions and goals will result in greater confidence and long-term success for all students.

We are looking for an HR Business Partner will support specific assigned client areas and serve as the People and Culture (P&C) team’s Subject Matter Expertise and functional lead for one or more divisional areas.

The HRBP will support the assigned senior leaders to enable the organization’s strategy including partnering to create the talent management, organization and culture initiatives, emphasizing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) priorities.

The HRBP will play an active role in all stages of the employee lifecycle for their client groups, including hiring, onboarding, compensation, team building, and organization development, and will play a critical role in interfacing with and ensuring alignment to ASA policies and practices while driving to meet functional and organization-wide priorities. They will be accountable for all related deliverables and milestones for these divisions, consulting with other P&C team members to support clients across the enterprise.

Additionally, the HRBP will partner with the VP, People & Culture on benefits, HRIS and total compensation work, including benefits administration, systems administration, analyzing options and interfacing with vendors to ensure that ASA’s total rewards continually align with its organizational philosophy to attract and retain the best talent. The role reports to the Vice President, People and Culture.

What You’ll Do:

• Acts as a thought partner for the leadership, especially in total rewards, to ensure the people and organization strategy is a key enabler to achieving the business results.
• Drives business results by creating/implementing human resource initiatives tailored to business requirements.
• Acts as an influential advisor to identify and drive change by owning end-to-end execution of the functional P&C work for assigned areas, such as leading organization-wide total rewards processes.
• Serves in a leadership capacity for the continuing rollout of ASA's articulated strategy, values, vision, and culture while encouraging innovative business decisions.
• Works with clients to implement and manage human resources processes, such as the performance management process, including performance assessment, calibration, and compensation planning.
• Collaborate with other P&C team members stewarding Talent Acquisition, DEIB, etc. to roll out enterprise-wide programs and ensure organizational needs are understood and met.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition Team to source and acquire talent for assigned client group(s), deploying best practices and remaining consistent with ASA’s TA process.
• Ensures the business attracts, develops, and retains high-quality talent at all levels in a continuous pipeline to support the growth objectives, opportunities, and strategies of the business.
• Works with clients and other BPs to manage and address employee relations issues.
• Coaches and counsels management and employees within assigned client group(s)
• Plays an active leadership role in the commitment to continuous improvement.
• Acts as a consultant and advisor with a significant understanding of DEIB and Racial Equity to further learning and capability within client group(s) and broader organization. Cultivates a strong external network of appropriate DEIB connections to support the organization’s objectives.
• Works in partnership with the P&C community to build a strong employment brand and reputation as a great place to work.
• Co-creates and actively manages impactful metrics and stewards the P&C dashboard to understand P&C metrics inclusive of diversity metrics. Establishes P&C-wide management routines to review data regularly to reinforce and inspire action, accountability, and outcomes.

About You:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in progressively responsible roles in human resources, including human resources business partner or “generalist” role. Experience in education technology or non-profit industry is strongly preferred.
• Business thinker with the ability to understand and translate strategy into practical plans.
• Deep and well-practiced knowledge of P&C best practices, principles, regulations and laws
• Demonstrated experience in total rewards (i.e., compensation and benefits) for best-in-class organizations.
• Strong process and system orientation to include data analytics and metrics tracking.
• Strong employee relations and engagement-building skills.
• Excellent communicator, including deep listening skills.
• Exceptional consulting skill with the ability to inspire confidence, connecting people-related issues and initiatives to overall business strategy; ability to influence as a trusted consultant and functional expert to senior leaders.
• Superior coaching skills
• Successful track record and demonstrated success with recruiting and building of talent pipelines.
• A self-motivated and self-confident individual who is ready to stretch into new and potentially uncomfortable areas to develop and refine functional BP skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for assigned areas of subject matter expertise and for achievement of results.
• Demonstrated understanding of organizational change and transformation planning and execution.
• Ability to build strong relationships among senior management and peers to gain commitment and support for major initiatives while placing the company’s interests first.
• Mission-driven with high energy and resilience.
• Strong collaborative work style to achieve both individual and team goals.

Why ASA?

ASA offers a wide range of perks and benefits to Associates, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare plans, a retirement plan (plus match), weekly lunches, commuter benefits, and tuition reimbursement.

We also heavily prioritize a healthy work/life balance, which is why we offer all full-time associates generous PTO options, Summer Fridays (every Friday off between Memorial Day and Labor Day), a company holiday break between December 25th and January 1st, and even a paid sabbatical after five years of employment.

ASA works in a Hybrid schedule (2) two days a week in our Boston HQ. We prioritize strategic thinkers, collaborators, and work/life pros who are looking to help make a difference in kid's education and career goals.

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