Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) — a world-renowned education and poverty-fighting organization based in New York — seeks an enthusiastic, dedicated, and mission-aligned HR Analyst to join our team.

The HR Analyst will bring a passion for the mission of Harlem Children's Zone: break the cycle of intergenerational poverty with comprehensive, on-the-ground programming that builds up opportunities for children and families to thrive in school, work, and life.

HCZ has an immediate opportunity for an HR Analyst to support our HR teams and business leaders with the development of data models and dashboard reports to provide historical trends and future projections for organization workforce analytics applications. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting human capital organizations with data-driven decision-making in the areas of performance management, employee engagement, compensation management, learning management and offboarding. The candidate must possess strong technical capability with data visualization and reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau and/or similar. This position is hybrid and reports to the CHRO.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Economics, Information Technology or similar field
• 2 years of experience supporting the workforce analytic requirements of human resource organizations, working with data/analytics or similar work
• Possess technical certification in Power BI, Tableau and/or Qlik

Who you are

• Advanced Excel skills required, including pivot tables and v-lookup, and the ability to research Excel skills
• Experience with HRIS/Payroll processing systems (ADP, UKG, Lever, iCims, Paylocity, ETC.)
• Exceptional communication skills – both written and verbal
• Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations

What you'll do

• Supports required reporting & analytics needs across functional HR teams
• Evaluate people data to identify trends and recommend enhancements for core people metrics
• Supports the development and definition of performance metrics (KPIs) that provide insight into key trends impacting business performance
• Supports the development of HR reports, analyses, insights, dashboards, visualizations, and infographics on crucial employee lifecycle metrics (e.g., turnover, recruiting metrics, 5500, EEOC, ACA, OSHA, WC, etc.) to enable data-driven decision-making processes
• Supports HR analytics in the organization by researching best practices and trends in the people analytics space
• Uses knowledge of HR data to produce data-informed insights using HR employee lifecycle analysis to support strategic decision-making for HR and the organization
• Performs reporting audits across HR functions and systems on an ongoing basis
• Set and maintain a regular cadence of reports and audits across all business units
• Assists team with systems implementation, rollout, and functionality testing
• Provides support activities, including researching, resolving reporting issues, and supporting training initiatives across all systems
• Own and deliver on all requests for workforce data from the business, ensuring data privacy/security, data governance practices and process accountability
• Assists in completing special projects by clarifying project objectives, meeting set timetables and schedules, conducting research, developing and organizing information and fulfilling transactions.
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, anticipating legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements and advising management on needed actions.
• Maintains strict confidentiality with employees and other sensitive data
• Performs Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Schedule

• Monday- Friday
• Hybrid Model (3/2 Schedule)

Benefits

As a member of the Harlem Children's Zone team, you will join a supportive and inclusive community dedicated to helping children, families — and our staff — thrive. We offer highly competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for growth.

Our exceptional full- time benefits include:

• Highly competitive base salaries
• Paid time off
• Employee referral bonus
• Career advancement
• No-cost health insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-and long-term disability
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Wellness discounts
• Commuter benefits
• Financial wellness perks
• Additional Benefits (Discounts on flights, hotels, theme parks, concert tickets, and more.)

The starting salary for this position is $60,000 per year. To be considered, interested applicants can apply directly through this post. No telephone inquiries or recruiters, please. Replies will only be sent to qualified applicants. Harlem Children’s Zone is an EOE.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)