Human Resource Assistant at Westmoreland Community Action – Latrobe, Pennsylvania

Our Human Resources department is accepting applicants for a Human Resource Assistant. Using your human resource management and office administration experience, you will assist the Human Resource Director in the efficient, accurate, and confidential completion of all duties pertaining to personnel. You will accomplish this by:

• Processing, verifying, and maintaining personnel related documentation, including staffing, recruitment, training, performance evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence;
• Explaining company personnel policies, benefits, and procedures to employees or job applicants;
• Answering questions regarding eligibility, earnings, benefits, and other pertinent information;
• Compiling and preparing reports and documents pertaining to personnel activities;
• Publishing job posts for available positions;
• Conducting new hire orientations as part of onboarding;
• Conducting and scheduling background checks for applicants and Agency personnel;
• Reviewing time sheets, wage computation, and other information to detect and reconcile payroll discrepancies; and
• Processing and issuing employee paychecks and statements of earnings and deductions.

Westmoreland Community Action is a non-profit organization that works to connect individuals and families to opportunities and resources throughout the community to improve their quality of life and help to reduce poverty in the community. This is accomplished through housing, counseling, support, education, intervention, collaborations, partnerships, information, referrals, and networking.

• High School Diploma or equivalency required; Associate's or Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• Minimum of three (3) years experience in office work; pervious HR experience preferred.
• Ability to establish, develop, and maintain an effective and pleasant working relationship with personnel.
• Must be able to obtain child abuse, state police, fingerprint-based criminal background check, and sex offender registry clearances.
• Valid driver's license required and must carry $15,000/$30,000 bodily liability car insurance.

Benefits:

• Dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability polices,
• ICHRA health plans – Using an allowance, choose the best plan for you,
• 16 paid holidays,
• 10 days of vacation in first year of employment,
• Sick time,
• 8% retirement match after 1 year and 1000 hours of service,
• Mileage reimbursement.

Westmoreland Community Action (WCA) is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects our community and those that we seek to serve. If you, in good faith, believe that you are qualified to succeed in this position, we encourage you to apply. Please include a cover letter to tell us about your unique qualifications for the position. Our hiring manager will review your application and, if interested, will contact you regarding next steps.

REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY TO SAFELY PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION OF HUMAN RESOURCE ASSISTANT:

Physical requirements - Push/pull, lift/move up to 10 pounds.

Manual dexterity - Perform moderately difficult manipulation - typing, filing, writing.

Coordination - Perform tasks which require foot and/or hand/eye coordination - driving a car, typing data entry.

Mobility - Walk, stand, sit for prolonged periods of time, drive.

Speech - Articulate with extreme accuracy - employee relations, phone contact.

Vision - Read small print, drive a car.

Hearing - Receive verbal instructions, answer phones, intercom, communicate with employees.

Concentration - Able to concentrate on fine detail with interruptions.

Attention span - Able to attend to task function for more that 60 minutes.

Conceptualization - Able to understand and relate to theories behind several related concepts.

Memory - Able to remember multiple verbal and written task-assignments given at beginning of a period extending over long period of time.

Environment Conditions - Indoor work