People & Culture Coordinator
Friends of the High LineAbout the role
Pay: Up to $30.77/hour (non-exempt)
The People & Culture Coordinator provides essential administrative, recruiting, onboarding and offboarding, employee-lifecycle, and program support to the People & Culture team.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, People & Culture, the Coordinator supports recruiting, onboarding and offboarding, employee communications, learning and development, engagement initiatives, career-development programs, HR documentation, reporting, and other day-to-day P&C activities.
The Coordinator serves as an accessible first point of contact for routine employee needs and works closely with colleagues across People & Culture to help ensure employees and managers receive responsive, accurate, and employee-centered support.
This role is designed as a developmental opportunity. As the Coordinator builds knowledge, judgment, and HR capabilities, the position will progressively take on greater independent responsibility, creating a potential career path into a People & Culture Generalist role.
Primary Responsibilities
Recruiting
Coordinate job postings and maintain recruiting records and trackers.
Schedule interviews and manage candidate communications.
Conduct initial phone screenings with candidates for assigned positions and share relevant feedback with hiring managers and the P&C team.
Coordinate interviews and maintain regular communication with candidates and hiring managers throughout the recruiting process.
Manage recruiting for assigned positions, including developing and posting job advertisements, sourcing and reviewing candidates, conducting initial interviews, and advancing qualified candidates through the selection process.
Coordinate background checks, references, offer documentation, and other pre-employment activities.
Support recruiting events, candidate sourcing, and talent-pipeline initiatives.
Help ensure candidates receive a responsive and positive experience throughout the hiring process.
Onboarding & Offboarding
Coordinate new-hire orientation and onboarding schedules, including schedules, communications, documentation, and follow-up with hiring managers and P&C colleagues.
Track onboarding requirements and completion.
Coordinate routine offboarding activities, documentation, checklists, and return-of-property processes.
Support exit-feedback administration and recordkeeping.
Employee & P&C Support
Serve as an accessible first point of contact for routine employee questions and direct more complex matters to the appropriate P&C team member.
Maintain employee records, personnel files, HRIS information, forms, templates, trackers, calendars, and P&C documentation.
Perform authorized HRIS transactions and support data accuracy.
Prepare routine employment letters, verifications, reports, and employee communications.
Support invoices, vendors, scheduling, and administrative workflows.
Learning, Engagement & Employee Experience
Coordinate training and development programs, including scheduling, communications, materials, attendance, and follow-up.
Support employee engagement, recognition, culture, DEIA, accessibility, and employee-experience initiatives.
Assist with employee surveys, focus groups, listening activities, and related communications.
Maintain participation data and program materials.
Support career-development, mentoring, and other employee-development programs.
Benefits & Employee Lifecycle Support
Partner with appropriate P&C team members to support benefits, payroll, leave, retirement, and other employee-service processes.
Help employees navigate routine questions and connect them with the appropriate subject-matter expert when needed.
Support employee communications, enrollment materials, records, and documentation.
Maintain strict confidentiality regarding employee information and P&C matters.
Development Toward People & Culture Generalist
The High Line is committed to employee growth and development. A successful Coordinator will have opportunities to progressively develop capabilities that could position them for advancement into a People & Culture Generalist role.
Development opportunities may include progressively taking responsibility for:
- Managing increasingly complex recruiting searches and taking greater responsibility for advising hiring managers throughout the
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