Temporary HR Assistant

Organization Overview

Futures and Options empowers New York City’s youth, particularly youth of color and students from historically underrepresented communities, to acquire transferable professional skills, pursue higher education, and successfully compete in a global 21st century economy. We collaborate with New York City employers to provide transformative career development opportunities to young people, enabling them to succeed in college and inspiring them to pursue meaningful careers.

Our programs include: The Internship Program, which provides paid, mentored internships and career development workshops to students, ages 16 to 19 years old; Career Essentials, our hands-on career-readiness and career exploration program that provides opportunities for students to practice and improve their interpersonal, communication, and other relevant work-related skills; The Externship Experience, a career exploration and skill-building program focused on growing industries; the College Guidance Initiative, which helps students navigate the college application and selection process; and Alumni Engagement Programming, which provides continued work-readiness, mentoring, career exploration, and networking opportunities to alumni as they navigate their way through school and plan for future careers.

Futures and Options is seeking a highly capable, dedicated, and detail-oriented Temporary HR Assistant to support our HR team as we on-board and process payroll for hundreds of high school students who participate in our summer internship program. This is a seasonal position, starting in March/April and concluding in August.

The Temporary HR Assistant will focus on supporting intern onboarding and payroll tasks, including:

• Working with interns as they complete their self-onboarding and provide the support necessary to ensure they complete the process on time for their target start date
• Training students on using our payroll system, Paycom, for timecard reporting
• Communicating with students and their internship supervisors to ensure that they complete and approve timecards in time for payroll, which runs every two weeks.
• Performing other HR and administrative tasks as needed to help facilitate smooth operation of our summer internship program

The Temporary HR Assistant must be available for training beginning in late March / early April for between 2 and 4 hours per work day (10-20 hours per week), and then be available for 4 hours per work day from May thru August (20 hours per week). This is a hybrid position, with some office time required for in-person intern on-boarding activities.

To be successful in this role, the candidate must have:

• Associates or Bachelor’s Degree, or commensurate applicable professional experience
• Excellent interpersonal, attention to detail and verbal communication skills.
• Strong administrative and organizational skills with computer proficiency and knowledge of MS Office, including strong Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint skills. Experience using Salesforce or a similar database helpful but not required. Experience with Paycom or similar payroll system helpful but not required.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles and demonstrated ability to interact with individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, and sexual orientations in a multicultural environment.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range is $25-$30/hour commensurate with experience.

To apply

If you are interested in this position, please email your resume and a cover letter to adminjobs@futuresandoptions.org telling us why your experience would make you a good fit for this role. Please include “Temporary HR Assistant” in the subject line of your email.

As a condition of employment, all employees must successfully show proof of eligibility to work in the United States of America and successful completion of a background check.

Futures and Options values an inclusive and diverse workplace and is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce at all levels of the organization. All qualified applicants will be afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, religion/creed, color, national origin, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, military status, predisposing genetic characteristics, a survivor of domestic violence status, or marital status. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.