HR Manager

Fred Rogers Productions is seeking a compassionate and detail-oriented HR Manager to join our team. This role is essential to fostering a supportive and mission-driven workplace culture. The HR Manager will focus on implementing and administering human resources programs. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to an organization dedicated to making a positive impact on children and families. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and value kindness, flexibility, and empathy, we encourage you to apply!

Key Responsibilities

Benefits Management

• Act as the primary liaison between Fred Rogers Productions and benefits partners, ensuring clear communication and smooth program administration.
• Oversee benefits enrollment, including new hires, open enrollment, and life event changes, while providing ongoing education to employees.
• Coordinate the annual open enrollment process and maintain benefits documentation, ensuring employees are informed of updates and options.
• Collaborate with the Finance Department to manage payroll deductions and resolve employee benefits inquiries effectively.

HRIS Management

• Oversee and maintain the HRIS platform, ensuring data accuracy, security, and reliability.
• Collaborate with the Finance Department to align HRIS data with payroll processing.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance the HRIS system to optimize HR operations.

Record Keeping & Compliance

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee files, ensuring compliance with regulations and company policies.
• Conduct periodic audits of employee records to ensure completeness and accuracy.
• Ensure the company’s compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws, providing guidance and updates as needed.

Policy Administration

• Administer and communicate internal and external HR policies, ensuring consistency and alignment with organizational values.
• Assist in creating and updating the employee guide to reflect HR best practices and legal standards.

Recruiting and Retention

• Support recruiting efforts by collaborating with hiring managers to develop recruitment plans and ensure smooth onboarding processes.
• Review and write job descriptions to align with current responsibilities.
• Organize professional development opportunities, including scheduling and communication.

Qualified Candidates Will Have

• Patience, empathy, flexibility, and kindness.
• A Bachelor’s Degree or Associate’s Degree with applicable experience.
• 3+ years of HR Generalist or Compensation and Benefits experience.
• Basic knowledge of employment laws and best practices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
• Proficiency in computer systems; HRIS experience is a plus.
• PHR/SPHR certification is a plus.

ABOUT FRED ROGERS PRODUCTIONS

Fred Rogers founded the company in 1971 as the non-profit producer of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood for PBS. In the years that followed, it not only created hundreds of episodes of this much-loved program but also extended Fred’s values and approach to other efforts in promoting children’s social, emotional, and behavioral health and supporting parents, caregivers, teachers, and other professionals in their work with children. Fred Rogers Productions continues to build on Fred’s legacy in innovative ways through a wide variety of media and engage new generations of children and families with his timeless wisdom. The company’s highly-rated, award-winning children’s series include Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Peg + Cat, Odd Squad, and Through the Woods.

At Fred Rogers Productions, we believe kids come first, now and always. We connect with them through shows that are fun, relatable, and put their social and emotional learning front and center. That’s how we’ve earned the trust of parents, caregivers, and teachers.

We bring our one-of-a-kind expertise in early childhood development to partnerships with talented creators, writers, illustrators, animators, and producers. Together, we create shows that foster a natural enthusiasm for learning and that make kids smile while they learn big life lessons. And we are always exploring how to make the most of new ways for kids to watch and play.   For more information, visit www.fredrogers.org or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Fred Rogers Productions is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions shall be based on merit, qualifications, and competence. Employment practices shall not be influenced or affected by a person’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy governs all aspects of employment, including, without limitation, recruiting, hiring, compensation, benefits, promotion, assignment, and dismissal. It is also our policy to provide an environment free of unlawful harassment of any kind, including, without limitation, sexual, racial, age-related, disability-related, or ethnic background-related.