Administrative Human Resources
with Catherine Mattice
Sample: Job Description for Human Resources Manager
This job description is an example of what might be used in a small business setting. Before implementing
any job description in your workplace, an attorney should review and approve it.
Scope:
The human resources manager is responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating human
resources policies, programs, and practices.
Reports to:
Director of operations
Classification:
Exempt
Hours:
This position is full time. The human resources manager is expected to start the work day no later
than 8:00 a.m. and will regularly work more than 40 hours per week.
Supervisory Responsibility:
The file clerk and receptionist will report to the human resources manager.
Essential Job Functions:
• Consistently focuses on the culture of the organization, ensuring that all human
resources activities and programs are in line with the organization’s culture,
mission, vision, and values
• Provides excellent customer services to all employees, managers, leaders, and
vendors at all times
• Maintains the work structure by updating job requirements, job descriptions, and
organizational flowchart as needed; conducts job analyses and salary surveys,
updates job descriptions, and makes recommendations for changes in pay
(annually and as needed)
• Handles all recruiting efforts and assists in the interview and selection process;
coaches managers on effective interviewing techniques
• Conducts all onboarding, orientation, and training programs for new hires; ensures
all new hire paperwork is in compliance with and completed by new hires
• Creates and maintains the performance review process, including coaching managers
on employee rewards and discipline; assists in all aspects of the performance and
disciplinary processes and trains managers in effective performance management
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• Develops, recommends, and implements personnel policies and procedures and
maintains corporate policy handbook; ensures updates are received and
acknowledged by all employees
• Performs benefits administration, including assisting employees with questions,
directing the processing of benefit claims, reevaluating and recommending benefits
programs annually, managing open enrollment, and implementing cost-effective
benefits programs
• Maintains the contents of all personnel files
• Ensures company is in compliance with all federal, state, and local laws related to
human resources
Competencies:
• Strong knowledge of the human resources function
• Ability to research and find the answer to human resources issues as they arise
• Demonstrates ethical conduct
• Ability to make logical and fair decisions
Education and Experience:
• Minimum five years of experience in a human resources role
• Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required if the candidate has more than
10 years of proven excellence in the field of human resources
• Certified in human resources (i.e., PHR, SHRM-CP, or higher)
Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and sit
for extended periods of time; reach for tools and objects with hands and arms; climb stairs; stoop,
kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
The employee must be able to see up close and at a distance as well as use peripheral vision and
depth perception and be able to look at, read, and use a computer for long periods of time.
Signature:
The employee signature below constitutes the employee’s understanding of the requirements,
essential job functions, and duties of the position.
Name: __________________________________ Date: __________________________
Signature: _______________________________
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