HR Operations Coordinator — Remote Work (After 3 Months)

University Of Rhode Island; Kingston, Northern (RI, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Rhode Island seeks a Coordinator of Business Operations for the College of the Environment and Life Sciences. This professional will lead personnel processes, oversee staff and graduate assistant administration, and ensure compliant, timely HR workflows across the college.

Responsibilities include coordinating appointments, onboarding/offboarding, leave tracking, and payroll-related documentation, while collaborating with Central HR and Payroll.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, public administration, human resources, management, or a related field.
• Minimum of three years of experience in human resources operations, employee records management, payroll-related HR administration, or related administrative management in a complex organization.
• Demonstrated experience supervising, training, assigning, and evaluating the work of staff.
• Demonstrated experience managing human resources, personnel, employment, or payroll-related administrative processes.
• Demonstrated experience preparing, maintaining, and managing confidential personnel records and employment documentation while following established policies, procedures, and approval workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, maintain accurate records.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills with strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrated computer skills, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, email, and web-based administrative systems.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative working relationships and provide customer-focused service across multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate personnel-related activities for faculty, staff, graduate assistants, and part-time employees throughout the employment lifecycle.
• Manage College-level administration and processing of personnel transactions, including appointments, employment changes, compensation-related actions, leaves, separations, organizational changes, and other personnel-related activities.
• Develop, implement, and maintain processes, procedures, tracking systems, and operational workflows that support efficient and compliant personnel operations across the College.
• Ensure employment-related transactions, records, and documentation are accurate, timely, confidential, and consistent with University policies, collective bargaining agreements, and applicable laws and regulations.
• Manage and oversee part-time faculty appointment processes, including contract letters, hiring documentation, background-check workflows, appointment tracking, communication with departments, and coordination with central University offices.

Skills

HR operations

Staff supervision

Records management

Project management

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Legal/compliance knowledge

Data analysis

Customer service

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration / HR / public administration

Tools

PeopleSoft HR

Workday

Excel

Job description

The University of Rhode Island seeks a Coordinator of Business Operations for the College of the Environment and Life Sciences. This professional will lead personnel processes, oversee staff and graduate assistant administration, and ensure compliant, timely HR workflows across the college.

Responsibilities include coordinating appointments, onboarding/offboarding, leave tracking, and payroll-related documentation, while collaborating with Central HR and Payroll.