Impactful HR Generalist: Recruit, Onboard & Grow Teams

Agate Housing and Services; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

PTO 20 days + holidays

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Agate Housing and Services is seeking an HR Generalist to help grow a team that changes lives in Minneapolis. You will own full-cycle recruitment, onboarding, and the employee experience, with room to expand into performance management, leave administration, compliance, and employee relations as programs grow.

In this hands-on role you’ll partner with hiring managers, create welcoming onboarding, and help scale staffing for new services while upholding our commitment to stability for adults and

Responsibilities

• Coordinate full-cycle recruitment, including job postings, application reviews, candidate screenings, interview scheduling, and hiring documentation.
• Prepare offer letters, develop onboarding materials, and facilitate new hire orientation.
• Develop training curriculum and teach classes in partnership with subject matter experts.
• Represent Agate at job fairs and recruitment events.
• Help create a welcoming, engaging employee experience from the first interview through onboarding.
• Maintain accurate, confidential employee records, personnel files, and HRIS data.
• Process employee changes, including hires, promotions, transfers, leaves, and separations.
• Respond to employee questions and prepare employment verifications and HR correspondence.
• Conduct periodic records audits and support HR systems, reporting, and special projects.
• Assist employees with benefit enrollment, benefit questions, and leave requests.
• Coordinate leave administration and maintain required documentation.
• Process employment changes and supporting documentation for payroll and benefits systems.
• Support employee engagement, retention, and initiatives that foster a positive, inclusive workplace.
• Partner with HR leadership to support positive labor-management relationships and administer collective bargaining agreements.
• Coordinate workers' compensation documentation, claims follow-up, and communication with employees, supervisors, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators.
• Lead safety committee meetings, develop agendas, and help implement workplace safety initiatives.
• Support compliance with federal, state, and local employment requirements, including I-9 documentation.
• Prepare reports and records for audits, regulatory agencies, and internal stakeholders.
• Help communicate and implement HR policies and procedures.
• Contribute ideas, improve processes, and support new HR initiatives as Agate grows.
• Take on special projects that strengthen our people, programs, and workplace.
• Build a broad HR skill set while supporting the employees who make Agate's mission possible.

Job description

Agate Housing and Services is seeking an HR Generalist to help grow a team that changes lives in Minneapolis. You will own full-cycle recruitment, onboarding, and the employee experience, with room to expand into performance management, leave administration, compliance, and employee relations as programs grow.

In this hands-on role you’ll partner with hiring managers, create welcoming onboarding, and help scale staffing for new services while upholding our commitment to stability for adults and