Compensation & Onboarding Specialist

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🏄 California, Washington – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $60k - $67k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚀 Onboarding Specialist

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Best Friends Animal Society

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1984

🤝 Non-profit

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Charity • Social Impact

Best Friends Animal Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the number of homeless pets and promoting no-kill animal shelters throughout the United States. The organization operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals, providing adoption, spay/neuter, and educational programs to support animals in need. Best Friends Animal Society strives to reach a no-kill goal by 2025, emphasizing community involvement, animal advocacy, and fostering to prevent the unnecessary euthanization of pets. The society's work is supported by donations, volunteers, and partnerships, aiming to save them all and provide a safe haven for abandoned and injured animals.

📋 Description

• Serve as an ambassador and example of Best Friends Animal Society’s Guiding Principles by upholding a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, trust, inclusivity, and respect • Support the administration and maintenance of compensation resources, including pay ranges, compensation guidelines, job descriptions, job profiles, and related tools or materials • Gather, organize, and summarize internal compensation data and external market information to support pay range reviews, benchmarking, job evaluations, and compensation planning • Complete assigned compensation-related tasks in Workday, including routine updates to compensation data, role information, job profiles, and related records, following approved processes and escalating questions as needed • Identify potential compensation data issues, inconsistencies, or items needing review and escalate them to the appropriate owner • Generate routine compensation reports, summaries, trackers, and data files to support review by the Director, People Strategy & Analytics and other People & Culture stakeholders • Support tracking of routine compensation-related compliance items, including minimum wage changes, pay transparency requirements, and other compensation-related updates • Provide routine process and resource support to managers and People & Culture partners related to job descriptions, role changes, new positions, promotions, and compensation process questions • Escalate complex, sensitive, or non-routine compensation questions to the Director, People Strategy & Analytics or another appropriate People & Culture leader • Help prepare, update, and organize compensation-related resources, including process guides, templates, FAQs, job change resources, manager materials, and other approved communications • Support defined People Strategy & Analytics execution needs, including first-year journey and onboarding coordination support, materials/checklist updates, cohort-related follow-through, and other assigned portfolio priorities • Maintain appropriate confidentiality and discretion when handling sensitive employee, compensation, organizational, and system information • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience, coursework, internship experience, or demonstrated interest in compensation, human resources, finance, data analytics, or a related field • Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate records, files, and data • Basic analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to review data, identify inconsistencies, and summarize findings • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain information clearly and professionally • Ability to manage confidential and sensitive information with discretion • Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and priorities • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams • Familiarity with Workday or another HRIS/HCM system preferred • Familiarity with compensation concepts such as pay ranges, job descriptions, job profiles, market pricing, or internal equity preferred • Collaborative, adaptable, and committed to supporting fair, consistent, and values-aligned People & Culture practices.

🏖️ Benefits

• great benefits!