Senior Human Resources Associate

The Bridgespan Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bridgespan Group is seeking a Senior HR Associate to join the People & Culture team in San Francisco. You will provide administrative and operational support across HR processes, ensuring timely execution of performance reviews, lifecycle administration, accommodations, promotions, and compensation benchmarking.

You will collaborate with HR colleagues to maintain accurate data and a positive employee experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, business or related field.
• 3-5 years of progressive HR experience, including employee relations, performance management, and employee lifecycle administration.
• Ability to provide clear, policy-aligned guidance to managers and staff.
• Strong judgment to identify and escalate complex or high-risk matters.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills with accuracy and follow-through.
• Ability to handle confidential information with professionalism.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate performance review processes, including meetings, communications, materials, and guidance for employees and managers.
• Coordinate promotion communications, documentation, timelines, and logistics.
• Support routine employee relations matters; provide policy-aligned guidance, maintain documentation, track follow-up, and elevate complex issues as appropriate.
• Administer employee lifecycle requests, including externships, part-time arrangements, and transfers, with HRIS updates.
• Coordinate employee departures, including communications, data updates, and exit interviews.
• Maintain compensation benchmarking data and related documentation.
• Assist managers with job descriptions by providing templates and guidance on leveling and language.
• Coordinate employee accommodation requests in accordance with the ADA, with involvement from the Associate Director.
• Audit and track professional development expenses against the budget.
• Contribute to other HR projects and provide administrative support as needed.

Skills

Employee relations

Performance management

Lifecycle administration

Policy guidance

Project coordination

Confidentiality

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR, business or related field

Tools

HRIS

Records management

HR systems

Job description

The Bridgespan Group

Title: Senior HR Associate
Office: San Francisco

Organization

The Bridgespan Group (“Bridgespan”) is a global nonprofit that aims to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations, philanthropists, impact investors, and corporations to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society’s most important challenges and opportunities.

Founded in 2000, Bridgespan has offices in Boston, Johannesburg, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, and Singapore. Across these six locations, we have a diverse team of staff with varied backgrounds and experience across multiple sectors. We work with social change organizations such as TaRL Africa, Tiko, and CAMFED; philanthropies and foundations such as OSF, Women First Fund, and The Ford Foundation; impact investors such as TPG’s Rise Fund, Black Ambition, and AfricInvest; and bold funding collaboratives such as TED’s Audacious Project and Co-Impact.

Bridgespan aims for a world where all people have the opportunity to flourish. Given how society works today—as manifest in systems and mindsets that have developed over time—that opportunity is not accessible to all. We are committed to equity, specifically to doing work to help ensure that race, gender, and other dimensions of identity are not determinants of life outcomes and to building an organization where the diverse set of individuals we need can thrive in pursuit of their full professional potential, and to proactively addressing the systems that help or hinder these goals. It is a commitment to both external equity work and internal inclusivity that gets Bridgespan closer to achieving its mission.

Position

The Senior HR Associate plays a key role on Bridgespan's People & Culture (P&C) team, providing administrative and operational support across a broad range of HR processes. This position will help ensure the timely and accurate execution of critical people processes, including performance reviews, employee lifecycle administration, accommodations, promotions, and compensation benchmarking. Reporting to the HR Associate Director, this role partners closely with HR colleagues to coordinate logistics, maintain accurate employee data, manage documentation, and support a positive employee experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate performance review processes, including meetings, communications, materials, and guidance for employees and managers.


• Coordinate promotion communications, documentation, timelines, and logistics.


• Support routine employee relations matters; provide policy-aligned guidance, maintain documentation, track follow-up, and elevate complex, sensitive, or high-risk issues as appropriate.


• Administer employee lifecycle requests, such as externships, part-time arrangements, and transfers, including related HRIS updates and documentation.


• Coordinate employee departures, including communications, data updates, and exit interviews.


• Maintain compensation benchmarking data and related documentation.


• Assist managers with job descriptions by providing templates and guidance on leveling and language.


• Coordinate employee accommodation requests in accordance with the ADA, ensuring timely and well-documented processes; partner with the Associate Director on complex or sensitive cases.


• Audit and track professional development expenses against the budget.


• Contribute to other HR projects and provide administrative support as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, business or related field


• 3-5 years of progressive HR experience, including employee relations, performance management, and employee lifecycle administration.


• Ability to provide clear, policy-aligned guidance to managers and staff.


• Strong judgment, including the ability to identify and upscale complex or high-risk matters.


• Excellent organizational, documentation, and project coordination skills, with consistent accuracy and follow-through.


• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and employee matters.


• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and discretion.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills.


• Ability to work independently, collaborate across teams, and build effective working relationships.


• Service-oriented approach and commitment to supporting employees and organizational processes.


• Proficiency with HR systems, data entry, and records management.

At the Bridgespan Group, we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion because we are passionate about helping our clients achieve breakthrough results. An organization that reflects the diversity of our clients and their beneficiaries will produce deeper relationships, engagement, and insights. Bridgespan is committed to providing equal opportunities. We serve diverse organizations and are committed to non-discrimination. Bridgespan will not discriminate against any employee with respect to any term or condition of employment, including but not limited to less favorable treatment, exclusion from employment or employment opportunities (including hiring, assignment, performance assessment and promotion) on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, gender (including pregnancy), gender identity, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, expression, veteran’s status or other protected characteristic or status. We actively partner with organizations representing minority concerns and interests to build high-performing teams that mirror the communities we serve.

All company sponsored programs including training, job, social and recreational activities are required to be nondiscriminatory and all human resource practices are monitored to ensure equal opportunity.