People & Culture Generalist

NJ/NY Gotham FC (“Gotham FC” or “the Club”) is a National Women’s Soccer League (“NWSL”) team representing New Jersey and New York. The team plays at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, NJ.

The Role

Gotham FC is seeking a People & Culture Generalist that is eager to advance our professional women’s soccer team. The ideal candidate has excellent attention to detail and professional judgement, is collaborative and adaptive to change, and is able to balance operational excellence and advancement with organizational performance. This position will provide day-to-day People & Culture support across the organization, contributing to recruiting, onboarding, employee engagement, compliance, training, and HR operations. You’ll be the go-to for many employee-related questions, helping foster a supportive and inclusive environment. This position works with multiple internal and external stakeholders, and requires superb written and verbal communication, professionalism, and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage organizational employee growth by managing the employee life cycle including: the creation of job descriptions, offer letters, reference checks, backgrounds, I9s, eVerify, onboarding and orientation, system and company set up, employee engagement and retention, and offboarding.
• Administer HR system, Rippling, and maintain accurate data & employee records (e.g., HRIS updates, personnel files, regulatory forms, contracts, training records, etc.).
• Analyze HR data & trends to support goals & objectives.
• Serve as the point of contact for HR policy questions, benefits (i.e. new enrollments, changes, and open enrollment) and other inquiries regarding the people & culture function.
• Process benefit enrollments and changes for Club medical, dental, and vision plan.
• Assist with leave of absence administration (FMLA, disability, parental leave, etc.).
• Lead initiatives that promote employee engagement, recognition, and organizational culture (i.e. assist with planning employee events & wellness activities).
• Support internal & external audits as needed.
• Remain current in employment trends, uphold compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, policies, or relevant practices.
• Take on generalist tasks as needed to support the needs of a growing and evolving team.
  
  

Qualifications

• Excellent time management and organization skills.
• Experience with benefits administration, HRIS (ideally Rippling, but not required) and/or payroll systems, compliance, and people operations.
• 3+ years of experience in an HR generalist or specialist role.
• HR certification or degree in HR is nice to have, though strong work experience is just as meaningful.
• Strong knowledge of human resources and compliance.
• Confident problem solving, a positive attitude, people first approach to partnering with the business.
• High level of discretion and confidentiality.
• Nice to have: Comfortable working in a startup environment as part of a new and growing team.
• Nice to have: Comfortable working within a regulated industry or for a company under another governing body, such as sports leagues or similarly regulated industries.
  
  

Capability & Other Characteristics

• Acts with integrity and confidentiality in a fast-paced, startup environment with ever changing priorities.
• Ability to wear multiple hats and maintain a positive and proactive attitude.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.
  
  

Location:

Based at Gotham FC’s business office, which is located at 15 Exchange Place Jersey City, New Jersey, on a hybrid working schedule which consists of three core in-office/in-person days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) and two non-core days (Monday and Friday), with the option of being in the business office or remote. Ability to attend all home games and any mandatory events as well as away games, as necessary. A willingness to travel for other business-related needs, as they arise. Ability to work at the team’s soccer operations office in Whippany, New Jersey, as needed. Gotham FC requires its associates to live in its market, that is, within reasonable commuting distance of Gotham FC’s offices, practice facility and Sports Illustrated Stadium.

Gotham FC is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. We are committed to broadening the pool of qualified talent for consideration, including those who have been historically underrepresented. We strongly encourage people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply.

Job type: Full-time, Exempt position

Salary range: $70,000 - $80,000

Benefits: Medical, Dental & Vision benefit plans available for Employee and Family, Employee funded 401(k) option

This job description is a broad summary of the essential job functions and general duties for this position, the additional job duties that may be required from time-to-time, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. The person in this role may be required to and must be willing to perform other duties as assigned, to meet organizational needs. This job description may be modified from time to time, at the sole discretion of Gotham FC.

This employee must follow and enforce all policies and procedures formulated by Gotham FC and be a role model for the organization.

The existence of this job description does not modify the employee’s “at-will” status. That is, unless a signed employment contract specifying a term of employment exists between Gotham FC and the employee or his/her/their representative, both Gotham FC and the employee will have the right to terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without reason or notice, unless otherwise prohibited by law.