Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Christian Career Center is seeking a Human Resources Generalist to provide professional people support to Unity Communities & Leaders. This role involves offering advisory expertise in employee relations, conflict resolution, and governance alignment while ensuring best practices across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a consultative resource to ministry leaders navigating workplace or governance challenges
- Provide structured frameworks for addressing interpersonal conflict
- Coach leaders on documentation, progressive discipline, and accountability conversations
- Guide development and implementation of performance improvement plans
- Provide mediation tools and structured approaches ministries can implement locally
- Advise ministries on best-practice investigation processes
- Provide templates, checklists, and documentation guidance for internal investigations
- Coach leaders on how to conduct fair, neutral, and well-documented reviews
- Recommend when external legal counsel or third-party investigators may be appropriate
- Support clarity between governance issues and employment matters
- Review and provide recommendations on: Job descriptions, Employment agreements, Independent contractor agreements, Board/staff role delineation documents, Performance evaluation tools
- Develop standardized templates and scalable resources
- Advise on employment classification and compensation best practices (without direct payroll authority over ministries)
- Provide guidance on clear delineation between board governance and operational management
- Offer advisory input regarding financial controls and accountability systems
- Help ministries create clarity around authority, reporting relationships, and decision rights
- Develop onboarding resources and foundational HR training for ministers and board leaders
- Create scalable people support education modules (hiring basics, documentation standards, employee relations fundamentals, etc.)
- Contribute to development of a Unity People Support Toolkit for movement-wide use
- Support a proactive, education-first approach to reducing “ethics-labeled” concerns
- Maintain awareness of evolving employment standards
- Provide high-level guidance regarding employment compliance considerations
- Identify patterns across ministries and recommend systemic improvements
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, organizational leadership, business, or related field
- Minimum 5 years progressive HR experience with strong emphasis in employee relations
- Experience advising leaders on workplace investigations (not necessarily serving as investigator of record)
- Experience developing performance improvement plans and documentation frameworks
- Demonstrated coaching or consultative experience with senior leaders
- Strong written documentation and policy development skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and neutrality
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification
- Experience in nonprofit, faith-based, or decentralized organizations
- Experience working with boards and governance structures
- Mediation or conflict resolution training
- Experience building scalable HR toolkits or educational programming
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