Senior Manager, Compliance and Employee Relations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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Kokua Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Education • HR Tech • B2B

Kokua Education is a dedicated platform that connects schools with guest teachers who inspire students through meaningful interactions. Our mission is to empower future generations by providing high-performing substitute teachers who create impactful learning experiences. Founded on the Hawaiian principle of 'Kokua,' which means to come together and fulfill a need, we strive to uplift communities by addressing educational barriers and fostering relationships that inspire and engage students. Our growing network of substitute teachers is committed to making a difference in classrooms across the country.

📋 Description

• Maintain a requirements matrix by state, market, and school partner covering screening, credentialing, training, and other placement requirements • Define background screening, fingerprinting, credentialing, and mandatory reporting training requirements for guest educators • Establish and monitor controls preventing assignments before required clearance is complete • Coordinate educator misconduct matters and required reporting with Operations, the VP of People, and counsel • Independently manage routine and moderately complex employee relations cases, including investigations, documentation, recommendations, and resolution • Partner with managers and HRBPs on responses, corrective action, and follow-up • Own Kokua's workforce compliance standards, controls, and framework across the employee lifecycle • Develop scalable compliance processes, controls, documentation, and training; own audit readiness • Monitor employment requirement changes and translate them into updated team guidance • Serve as specialist partner to HRBPs on compliance standards, formal investigations, and employee relations risk • Own compliance readiness checklists and recommendations for new market launches • Research requirements and coordinate with stakeholders and external counsel before launches • Advise leaders on risk, escalation, accommodations, leave, conduct, safety, wage and hour, immigration, and employment compliance • Report on ER case trends, compliance readiness, remediation, market launch readiness, and business enablement

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive HR, employee relations, or compliance experience, including direct investigation experience • Demonstrated success implementing multi-state compliance programs in a high-volume, distributed workforce, with measurable improvements in accuracy, turnaround time, or operational simplicity • Strong working knowledge of employment practices and requirements across multiple U.S. jurisdictions • Experience with I-9/E-Verify, background and credential compliance, wage and hour, leave, accommodations, or other workforce compliance programs • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex or sensitive issues clearly to non-HR audiences • Demonstrated ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and build structure in a growing organization • Experience in high-complexity, employee-protective states such as New York, Illinois, or California • PHR/SPHR or SHRM-CP/SCP • Experience in staffing, contingent workforce, or education-sector HR • Experience supporting or leading HR/compliance work associated with entering a new state or market • Experience designing compliance tools or training for non-HR audiences

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus compensation eligibility • Participation in Kokua Education's benefits program • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • 401k retirement plan • Company match • Paid time off