Fractional HR Business Partner – 1099 Contractor
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Independent HR consultant supporting Jumpstart HR clients with employee relations, policies, systems, and workforce planning. Serving small businesses, startups, nonprofits, and growing organizations.
Responsibilities:
- Help managers navigate employee concerns, performance issues, difficult conversations, and separation planning
- Create or update handbooks, policies, job descriptions, and employee communications
- Review HR practices, identify gaps, and build realistic action plans
- Improve hiring, onboarding, and offboarding
- Help clients navigate HR requirements across multiple states, including leave and accommodations
- Build performance-review tools and coach managers on giving feedback
- Improve HR systems, employee records, and payroll or benefits processes
- Support retention, compensation, and workforce-planning projects
- Carry agreed work through to completion and keep clients informed
- Flag issues requiring legal counsel or another specialist
Requirements:
- Five or more years of progressive HR experience, including work as an HR Business Partner, HR Manager, HR Consultant, or a similar role
- An active SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification
- Experience helping small or midsize businesses make practical HR decisions
- Strong judgment in employee relations and a careful approach to confidential information
- Experience supporting employees across multiple states
- Clear writing skills and the ability to create understandable, usable documents
- Confidence managing multiple client projects and delivering agreed work
- Familiarity with Gusto, Rippling, Paylocity, or similar HR systems
- An established independent HR consulting practice and the resources to deliver services
- Experience with nonprofits, startups, professional services, California or New York requirements, investigations, compensation, or HR systems projects is a plus
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule and work location set by the contractor
- Ability to choose whether to accept proposed engagements
- Ability to continue serving other clients, subject to confidentiality and conflict-of-interest requirements
- Nonexclusive independent contractor arrangement
- No fixed daily shifts or standing on-call requirements
- Client-system access arranged when needed
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