Sr. HR Generalist (Part Time)

About KSHR and The Role KSHR helps small and mid-sized organizations strengthen HR foundations, develop managers, and solve practical people challenges. We’re seeking an experienced Senior HR Generalist to independently deliver day-to-day HR support across multiple client organizations and work directly with managers and employees. This part-time, approximately 30-hour-per-week remote role is hands-on and execution-focused, with responsibility for HR administration, employee relations, operational quality, and dependable follow-through. This is an individual contributor position with no direct reports or dedicated HR support staff. Responsibilities:

• Manage assigned client HR requests, check-ins, work plans, and priorities within agreed service scope.
• Personally execute onboarding, offboarding, benefits coordination, HRIS updates, employee documentation, payroll-related changes, leave administration, and recurring compliance activities; resolve issues and coordinate with providers and vendors.
• Provide practical guidance to managers on performance, feedback, attendance, documentation, accountability, and policy application.
• Handle routine and moderately complex employee-relations matters, including documentation and fact-finding; escalate high-risk, legally complex, executive-level, or strategic issues to KSHR leadership or qualified counsel.
• Maintain, update, and implement HR policies, workflows, systems, templates, and manager tools.
• Prepare and update job descriptions and coordinate recruiting activities within client scope; this is not primarily a recruiting role.
• Organize competing client priorities, track time and deadlines, and flag delivery risks; obtain leadership approval before commitments that materially expand scope, fees, staffing, or obligations.
• Contribute to KSHR’s delivery standards, knowledge resources, process improvements, and occasional project, communications, content, or marketing support.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of progressive, hands-on HR generalist experience, including recent employee relations and direct execution of core HR operations.
• A relevant bachelor’s degree; SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, or comparable certification preferred.
• Experience as a Senior HR Generalist, standalone HR professional, HR Manager, or similar hands-on role supporting managers and employees with employee relations, performance management, and practical HR solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to personally administer employee-lifecycle processes, benefits coordination, HRIS records, leave and payroll-related changes, documentation, and compliance activities.
• Experience in a lean HR team, small or mid-sized organization, outsourced HR firm, HR consulting, PEO, or similar environment requiring independent judgment and direct execution.
• Comfort independently performing both routine HR administrative tasks and more complex generalist responsibilities without direct reports or dedicated administrative support.
• Strong client-facing communication, discretion, judgment, organization, and follow-through across competing priorities.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar client environments quickly, build credibility, and translate HR guidance into practical action.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Consulting, fractional HR, professional services, or multi-client experience.
• Multi-state HR experience, including California.
• Experience in life sciences, biotechnology, healthcare/clinical environments, technology, or IT services.
• Project coordination, business operations, communications, or content-development experience.

Pay: $30.00 - $45.00 per hour Expected hours: 30.0 per week License/Certification:

• SHRM Certified Professional (Required)

Work Location: Remote